One of the fundamental aspects of filmmaking is .. ermm, let me start again.
One of the things in filmmaking that literally everyone who is being given a camera and/or a budget should know, is a technique where the film tries to generate a connection between the audience and the protagonist. This is where the protagonist actually becomes the protagonist, not because of the hair, or the clothes, or the time on screen, of if he gets the girl, of if he is the one to stab that one last time the big angry dragon, but the protagonist is THAT ONE CHARACTER THAT THE AUDIENCE CONNECTS WITH.
Demonic is the story of a girl who i don't care about. She meets with a guy i don't care about and they discuss her mother whom, and this may shock you, i do not care about.
She goes to a hospital where two people i do not care about hook the daughter up to a big machine and SHAZAM, she is now in the mothers head, and simultaneously also in a bad recreation of the Nightmare On Elm Street plots, if you remove any semblance of charm and the charisma of Freddie Kreuger.
There's some fairly decent visual effects that remind me of the immensely superior A Skanner Darkly, when a guy in a rubber suit, filmed in B&W, with white noise and shakeycam, does some horror stuff that by this point we really do not care because there is no immersion, no suspension of disbelief, nil connection with the protagonist.
I think she stabs the monster later on and the film is over. Who cares.
One of the things in filmmaking that literally everyone who is being given a camera and/or a budget should know, is a technique where the film tries to generate a connection between the audience and the protagonist. This is where the protagonist actually becomes the protagonist, not because of the hair, or the clothes, or the time on screen, of if he gets the girl, of if he is the one to stab that one last time the big angry dragon, but the protagonist is THAT ONE CHARACTER THAT THE AUDIENCE CONNECTS WITH.
Demonic is the story of a girl who i don't care about. She meets with a guy i don't care about and they discuss her mother whom, and this may shock you, i do not care about.
She goes to a hospital where two people i do not care about hook the daughter up to a big machine and SHAZAM, she is now in the mothers head, and simultaneously also in a bad recreation of the Nightmare On Elm Street plots, if you remove any semblance of charm and the charisma of Freddie Kreuger.
There's some fairly decent visual effects that remind me of the immensely superior A Skanner Darkly, when a guy in a rubber suit, filmed in B&W, with white noise and shakeycam, does some horror stuff that by this point we really do not care because there is no immersion, no suspension of disbelief, nil connection with the protagonist.
I think she stabs the monster later on and the film is over. Who cares.