This project could have been tolerable if not for the needless and over-used "camera flicker" effect throughout the movie.
That effect was so distracting that it ruined what could have been at least tolerable action scenes.
While this was clearly a low-budget project, it did at least show the "students" trying to actually FIGHT the evil monster/killer. That was refreshing.
Without the unnecessary camera flicker, this movie could have been at least a 5, which is respectable.
All the cliches are there, but if you watch a movie like this you expect that.
11 Reviews
"camera malfunction demon"
BtzLtd22 June 2019
The key to this no-budget no-thrills found footage movie is that you can never see any of the action. the crew behind this movie apparently discovered a glitch effect that can block out select parts of the screen, so theres no monster - just a vague shape and some quick cut shots. some blood spatter on the camera lens is another clever blur tool. also clever is the way the plot centers around debunking paranormal internet videos. if this was done well, with an actual script and actors, itd be slow-clap worthy. as it stands, its a predictably disappointing and painful watch. stay away, especially if youve ever used a functional video camera
Not so demonic horror
TheLittleSongbird30 April 2019
Have never been a fan of found footage-like films, find the excessively shaky camera work that often comes with it often overused and cheaply and lazily used. Do appreciate horror however, do not have anything personal against low budget films or films dealing with the paranormal. The concept was a decent one, so there was definitely no prejudicial bias before watching 'Paranormal Demons'. Was apprehensive about it but wanted it to work at the same time.
'Paranormal Demons' unfortunately didn't work for me in any shape or form. The concept is not a new one, although decent, and 'Paranormal Demons' does nothing new or interesting with it. The tagline here compares it to the 'Paranormal Activity' and 'Friday the 13th' films, saying it's a mix of them. Don't see it and find the comparisons on the insulting side, am not a fan of the 'Paranormal Activity' franchise, which got worse with each film, but did notice a little value in all of them which can't be seen here, while enough of the 'Friday the 13th' films are much better made, more entertaining and have much more genuine dread than this ever did in the entire duration.
Like has been said before, also appreciated the effort of seeing the students fighting off the villain, but other than that there is nothing going for it.
In 'Paranormal Demons', there are no creepy visuals or no eerie or atmospheric lighting, just repetitive and gimmicky camera work, with an overused to excessiveness flickering effect that annoys and exhausts, and editing that is an insult to the word amateurish. They made the film look like a student film project that failed big time. The sound effects are some of the most annoying for any film in a long time.
'Paranormal Demons' biggest problems are the pacing and story. The pacing never comes to life and it doesn't even pick up momentum in the latter parts of the film. There is nothing scary here, no intensity, no ominous atmosphere, no broodiness or sense of dread. It's just a snail's pace slog rife with implausibility, stupid decision making, predictable and overly calculated "scares" and intelligence insulting ridiculousness, and does nothing new with an initially interesting but now gotten well stale premise.
A lot of the film feels like padded out filler with the non-horror moments containing cringe-worthy dialogue and characters that have no development and either have bland personalities or made to act dumb. Direction is flat, the villain has no real menace and the inexperience badly shows in all of the acting with no exceptions.
Summarising, very poorly done. 2/10
'Paranormal Demons' unfortunately didn't work for me in any shape or form. The concept is not a new one, although decent, and 'Paranormal Demons' does nothing new or interesting with it. The tagline here compares it to the 'Paranormal Activity' and 'Friday the 13th' films, saying it's a mix of them. Don't see it and find the comparisons on the insulting side, am not a fan of the 'Paranormal Activity' franchise, which got worse with each film, but did notice a little value in all of them which can't be seen here, while enough of the 'Friday the 13th' films are much better made, more entertaining and have much more genuine dread than this ever did in the entire duration.
Like has been said before, also appreciated the effort of seeing the students fighting off the villain, but other than that there is nothing going for it.
In 'Paranormal Demons', there are no creepy visuals or no eerie or atmospheric lighting, just repetitive and gimmicky camera work, with an overused to excessiveness flickering effect that annoys and exhausts, and editing that is an insult to the word amateurish. They made the film look like a student film project that failed big time. The sound effects are some of the most annoying for any film in a long time.
'Paranormal Demons' biggest problems are the pacing and story. The pacing never comes to life and it doesn't even pick up momentum in the latter parts of the film. There is nothing scary here, no intensity, no ominous atmosphere, no broodiness or sense of dread. It's just a snail's pace slog rife with implausibility, stupid decision making, predictable and overly calculated "scares" and intelligence insulting ridiculousness, and does nothing new with an initially interesting but now gotten well stale premise.
A lot of the film feels like padded out filler with the non-horror moments containing cringe-worthy dialogue and characters that have no development and either have bland personalities or made to act dumb. Direction is flat, the villain has no real menace and the inexperience badly shows in all of the acting with no exceptions.
Summarising, very poorly done. 2/10
Paranormal acting
wylie76310 January 2019
Terrible acting is just the focus here. Its all I could think about while watching. Also the sound effects are just annoying.
Plot is the same as every other of this type of movie and offers nothing significant to get away from that
Plot is the same as every other of this type of movie and offers nothing significant to get away from that
Played out
mikedegroot4 January 2019
Stop me if you've heard this one...a group of young people travel to a haunted location to try and prove/disprove the presence of paranormal activity and things don't go according to plan. This is easily the most played out setup of horror movies today and this one doesn't do anything new or different at all.
Everything about this film is very subpar. The acting, cinematography, sound, effects, and overall direction are quite bad to put it nicely. I really have nothing positive to say about this outing and it is just a disaster.
You've already seen the better versions of this movie and there's no need to watch this one. I understand that these films are easy to create but come on, this is getting old. I have watched so many of these movies in the past decade and I just can't do it anymore. I really like cheesy horror movies but seriously...do something different. How this movie has such a high score, I do not know. 2/10
Everything about this film is very subpar. The acting, cinematography, sound, effects, and overall direction are quite bad to put it nicely. I really have nothing positive to say about this outing and it is just a disaster.
You've already seen the better versions of this movie and there's no need to watch this one. I understand that these films are easy to create but come on, this is getting old. I have watched so many of these movies in the past decade and I just can't do it anymore. I really like cheesy horror movies but seriously...do something different. How this movie has such a high score, I do not know. 2/10
Bad enough to be a horror parody, but without any of the things that make horror comedy films actually good
mr_anderson-6138319 February 2020
Where to begin... The acting in this movie is pretty bad. Like, some of them have their moments where the acting isnt COMPLETE trash, but generally it is very amateurish. For a horror film where reactions need to feel genuine, this movie fail miserably. If you saw one of your buddies... roasted to death in a fire, lets say (I used that example specifically b/c it doesnt happen in this film and I dont wanna use spoilers) you would rightfully freak the eff out!... these people are basically just like "aw, bummer. Oh well, let's gtfo i guess" (not an actual quote lol) It's ALMOST laughably bad - but this movie doesnt even give you that.
This movie almost doesnt even have a plot. The story development this film does have ranges from very bland to very weird and at times, down right silly.
As bad as the plot is, the character development (or lack of) is actually even worse. Not only are the characters mostly all flat and boring, they also dont grow AT ALL throughout the entire movie. By the end, I was praying for them to all die horribly. They deserve it for sucking so much. lol.
The one character who wasnt painfully boring was the main character - but that's only because of how unfathomably aggrevating she was. If I'm being honest, she kind of reminded me of a year-one-Hermione-Granger but somehow way more annoying. "It's levi-OH-saw, not levi-oh-SAW!"
And each character was intensly stupid. Especially the main character, who didnt really seem to know why she was so sure ghost videos were fake other than "because science" and "because of course they are" (I'm paraphrasing). She also may have cited youtube as a scientific source at one point... lol. She was a freakin' moron. Par for the course with this movie's characters, unfortunately.
This movie's greatest weakness tbh is probably the script. It is just fundamentally bad. The actor's lines, the plot, the premise, the potencially interesting back story for the haunted mansion and ghost thing that roams the halls that never really gets fleshed out in any meaningful way... the script is just bad.
The ONE thing that was REMOTELY scary or thrilling or w/e was the creepy music/sound effects. They had some good creepy demoinic noises and children's whispers and laughter and stuff that was I guess we are to assume was picked up by the camera's recordings but not heard out loud (they never reacted to the noises). The only problem with this feature is unfortunatley they played these noises continuously until it just became background noise. The creepy noises werent used sparingly to accentuate the atmosphere. Instead it was plastered over the whole latter half of the film and it was thought - I assume - that the more creepy noises you have = more scarey... lol. Not so. To describe what the effect was like without making you watch the film, imagine playing one of those halloween spooky noise recordings people play to make their front yard creepy for the trick-or-treaters... now imagine you're playing 3 of those recordings simultaneously over top of each other for about an hour, and you pretty much know what i'm talking about here.
The last thing I'm going to mention, I dont think this is a spoiler, I'm just going to say... guns have ammo. Ammo is a thing that exists. That's it. I'll leave it at that.
This movie is terrible. It's not even bad enough to be good. it's just bad.
This movie almost doesnt even have a plot. The story development this film does have ranges from very bland to very weird and at times, down right silly.
As bad as the plot is, the character development (or lack of) is actually even worse. Not only are the characters mostly all flat and boring, they also dont grow AT ALL throughout the entire movie. By the end, I was praying for them to all die horribly. They deserve it for sucking so much. lol.
The one character who wasnt painfully boring was the main character - but that's only because of how unfathomably aggrevating she was. If I'm being honest, she kind of reminded me of a year-one-Hermione-Granger but somehow way more annoying. "It's levi-OH-saw, not levi-oh-SAW!"
And each character was intensly stupid. Especially the main character, who didnt really seem to know why she was so sure ghost videos were fake other than "because science" and "because of course they are" (I'm paraphrasing). She also may have cited youtube as a scientific source at one point... lol. She was a freakin' moron. Par for the course with this movie's characters, unfortunately.
This movie's greatest weakness tbh is probably the script. It is just fundamentally bad. The actor's lines, the plot, the premise, the potencially interesting back story for the haunted mansion and ghost thing that roams the halls that never really gets fleshed out in any meaningful way... the script is just bad.
The ONE thing that was REMOTELY scary or thrilling or w/e was the creepy music/sound effects. They had some good creepy demoinic noises and children's whispers and laughter and stuff that was I guess we are to assume was picked up by the camera's recordings but not heard out loud (they never reacted to the noises). The only problem with this feature is unfortunatley they played these noises continuously until it just became background noise. The creepy noises werent used sparingly to accentuate the atmosphere. Instead it was plastered over the whole latter half of the film and it was thought - I assume - that the more creepy noises you have = more scarey... lol. Not so. To describe what the effect was like without making you watch the film, imagine playing one of those halloween spooky noise recordings people play to make their front yard creepy for the trick-or-treaters... now imagine you're playing 3 of those recordings simultaneously over top of each other for about an hour, and you pretty much know what i'm talking about here.
The last thing I'm going to mention, I dont think this is a spoiler, I'm just going to say... guns have ammo. Ammo is a thing that exists. That's it. I'll leave it at that.
This movie is terrible. It's not even bad enough to be good. it's just bad.
Paranormal rubbish...
paul_haakonsen22 May 2021
Sure, when I sat down in 2021 to watch the 2018 movie titled "Paranormal Demons", I have to admit that my first thought was 'great, another paranormal movie'. But still, I opted to watch it, on the odd chance that writer and director David Brückner actually managed to come up with something worthwhile.
Needless to say that writer and director David Brückner didn't come up with something worthwhile here.
The storyline was so mundane and trivial that it was painful to sit through. Everything that took place throughout the course of this movie is something that has been done countless times in other movies of the same kind, more often than not also done better in other movies, mind you.
"Paranormal Demons" feels like a movie project that is something you could just as well and just as easily have made yourself. Just get a video camera, bring together a group of friends, and get a dubious costume for the entity, and you are well on your way.
This movie was filmed in a documentary manner. I don't really enjoy that, because when I sit down to watch a movie and throw my time and money after it, then I want a movie that is properly produced and have a proper movie quality to it, not something that I could have filmed myself with my digital video camera at home.
The acting in the movie was actually fair enough, but the actors and actresses had next to nothing to work with in terms of script, storyline and properly detailed characters.
As for "Paranormal Demons" being a horror movie, well I will say that the term horror is used very lightly here. There was nothing scary about "Paranormal Demons" at all, unless you consider a man wearing a bad latex mask as scary, or consider almost an hour and a half of dubious footage as scary.
"Paranormal Demons" is not a movie that I would recommend you waste your time, money or effort on. Some of us suffered through it so you don't have to.
My rating of the 2021 movie "Paranormal Demons" lands on a two out of ten stars.
Needless to say that writer and director David Brückner didn't come up with something worthwhile here.
The storyline was so mundane and trivial that it was painful to sit through. Everything that took place throughout the course of this movie is something that has been done countless times in other movies of the same kind, more often than not also done better in other movies, mind you.
"Paranormal Demons" feels like a movie project that is something you could just as well and just as easily have made yourself. Just get a video camera, bring together a group of friends, and get a dubious costume for the entity, and you are well on your way.
This movie was filmed in a documentary manner. I don't really enjoy that, because when I sit down to watch a movie and throw my time and money after it, then I want a movie that is properly produced and have a proper movie quality to it, not something that I could have filmed myself with my digital video camera at home.
The acting in the movie was actually fair enough, but the actors and actresses had next to nothing to work with in terms of script, storyline and properly detailed characters.
As for "Paranormal Demons" being a horror movie, well I will say that the term horror is used very lightly here. There was nothing scary about "Paranormal Demons" at all, unless you consider a man wearing a bad latex mask as scary, or consider almost an hour and a half of dubious footage as scary.
"Paranormal Demons" is not a movie that I would recommend you waste your time, money or effort on. Some of us suffered through it so you don't have to.
My rating of the 2021 movie "Paranormal Demons" lands on a two out of ten stars.
One of the worst films I have ever seen.
pepittos11 February 2022
I don't even know where to start. This film is possibly the worst film I have ever seen. Avoid at all cost. Maybe watch a some paint getting dry. This will be more thrilling and fun than watching this miserable attempt of making a movie. The director failed at simply everything!! You don't believe me? Watch for yourself. But don't say I didn't warn you. You will have more fun with your next dentist appointment as with this movie!!
What a damn shame
killercharm18 February 2020
While I was watching this I started to keep a list of the problems I could see an easy fix for but the list became so long that I realized it was just the frame of the movie that I was taken with. That frame is: Five film-making students in Berlin go to a castle that had been converted to a satellite experimental-type hospital for the nazis to use on the inmates of a nearby concentration camp. This is a found footage movie with drones. As the ominous, aerial POV shot is one of my personal near-necessary tropes I found this effect to be dazzling. Then the shortcomings started to overcome the movie; so I'm going to leave it at a slight pan. Slight because I do like the movie, just FIX IT. F'rinstance, there was not enough blood or damage in general to the ones caught by the demon. When Steve? was attacked by the demon, instead of just using his light halo on the ground as the visual (from his headlamp) his lower body should have been visible within the light halo, from the lamp being displaced, and he should have been much more mutilated than he was visually represented, because audibly he WAS more mutilated and that way the two representations could have jibed.
Ugh
Stephanie-Hurst15 September 2021
This was an absolute crapshow. The acting was so poor. This movie was 1 1/2 hours I can't get back. The lead actress says of a video they watch "This was very bad acting!" I almost choked at the irony. Lame, boring, not scary movie.
Horror movie on fleak!
playman-2838529 March 2018
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