Dull terror pic in which a big damn demon is released from underground and runs amok in a small Irish town. The make-up is rubbery, the pacing is awful, and despite two big fangs, the monster resorts to strangling and slamming people into walls to kill them (yawn). Or when he does bite, the view is from the back of his head, twitching back and forth to create the illusion of chewing. Far too many scenes of people investigating houses, or the woods, where they walk slooooowly and carefully for a good two minutes without anything happening. The only blood you see is stained on the victims clothes in the aftermath of the attack, as there is nearly zero gore here. Lots or restraint shown throughout, especially in the scene dealing with a pregnant woman, where the monster is about to tear into her exposed belly, but decides to spare her. And when he kills a young (though very jerky) boy, it's done offscreen. Clive Barker wrote this?? Technically it looks great for a low-budget horror from overseas, but its empty plot and lame action do it in. Apparently the demon has some sort of religious connection, which is discovered in some very annoying scenes set in a church. People's hands get possessed, then shows them something (the monster?) running past trees in a forest. Oh, and please don't miss the cheapo moment when it looks like the monster is kissing a victim. His mouth barely touches the guy's face, only to have 12 gallons of blood explode everywhere. Tsssss! You may enjoy the foul-mouthed priest or some nice atmospheric shots of the spooky countryside, but otherwise, this is useless.
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