While horror movie watching is a year-round event, this is that time of year when all of us can flourish, embracing the weird.
So, come one, come all, beasties unite! It’s Haunt-Tober time!
There is a substantial amount of glee that I feel every time I see Billy Zane punch through a guys head and then have his arm get stuck. It’s a ludicrous scene that is riotously funny. A common turn you’ll find in Tales From the Crypt Presents: Demon Knight right beside a horror based narrative and some unexpected twists and turns that tend to live within the realm of a preposterous nature.
Frank Brayker (William Sadler) – the knight/ is the guardian of an ancient key that can unlock an enormous evil, who is being outsider by the charmingly heinous Collector (Billy Zane).
Collector is a demon that wishes to set an apocalypse onto the world. When Frank takes refuge at a hotel in a small town, with a mix of characters including Jada Pinkett Smith, CCH Pounder and Thomas Hayden Church, he’s forced to hold up there and they all come together to try and stop Collector.
By all accounts Demon Knight is silly b-movie fodder, but its immensely entertaining all the same. Directed by Ernest Dickerson, there are some scary moments and definitely plenty of suspense, but where the film really thrives is within its openness to the strange and campy demeanor synonymous with the series.
A body horror with ample blood and gory atrocities. The humor is wildly generated from the scenes as they unfold and Billy Zane proves himself to be a hilariously menacing villain.
Sleaze, blood, and lots of severed body parts, Tales From the Crypt Presents: Demon Knight has some scenes that feel like placeholders, but overall works cohesively with its madcap narrative.
It is a campy homage that doesn’t promise any thought-provoking resonance, but will provide some easy thrills and stellar kills. Demon Knight knows what it is and doesn’t hide from it.
Today’s winner:
Wonderfully Weird & Horrifying 