Demon Keeper is a 1994 American horror film directed by Joe Tornatore for New Horizon Pictures. It was shot in Zimbabwe.[1]

Demon Keeper
Directed byJoe Tornatore
Written byMike Angel
Produced byCheryl Latimer
John Marshall
Joe Tornatore
Executive
Maurice Smith
Roger Corman
StarringDirk Benedict
Production
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The Pacific Trust
Distributed byNew Horizons Video
Release date
  • May 1994 (1994-05) (video)
Running time
72 minutes
CountryUSA
LanguageEnglish

Premise

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A fake medium conjures up an angry demon.

Cast

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Production

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The original cut of the film was felt to be not scary enough so at the behest of Roger Corman additional scenes were shot using a demon. According to Imagi Movies "The addition is laughably obvious, for two reasons: first the demon never appears ‘on the sets where the original footage was shot; second, the new scenes were done on video tape and run through the “film-look” process, with less than good results."[2]

Reception

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Senseless Pictures called it "small but underrated."[3]

Psychotronic Video said "Attention fans of Grotesque. Tomatore is back with more inept but entertaining nonsense."[1]

The Roanoke Times called it "fun if you're on the mood for a really bad movie. Otherwise forget it."[4] In a review for the Orlando Sentinel, Joe Bob Briggs wrote "not since Plan 9 from Outer Space have this many earnest authors been this sincerely awful."[5]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Demon Keeper". Psychtronic Video. Winter 1994. p. 58.
  2. ^ Biodrowski, Steve (Fall 1994). "Demon Keeper". Imagi Movies. p. 56.
  3. ^ Review of film at Senseless Cinema
  4. ^ "Reviews". The Roanoke Times. 18 June 1994. p. 20.
  5. ^ Briggs, Joe Bob (3 June 1994). "This flick goes way beyond bad to mesmerizing". The Orlando Sentinel. p. 110.
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