Demon Wind

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Moore</B></div> <div> <B>Music..........Bruce Wallenstein</B></div> <div> <B>Producer.......Michael Bennett & Paul Hunt</B></div> <div> <B>Executive Producer.....Peter Collins</B></div> <div> <B>Special Makeup Effects by Lance Anderson</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Dramatis Personae</U></B></div> <div> <B>Cory...........Eric Larson ('68)</B></div> <div> <B>Elaine.........Francine Lapensee </B></div> <div> <B>Dell...........Bobby Johnston (Maximum Breakout)</B></div> <div> <B>Traci..........Lynn Clark </B></div> <div> <B>Jack...........Mark David Fritsche</B></div> <div> <B>Brenda.........Sherry Bendorf</B></div> <div> <B>Stacey.........Jack Vogel (Lock and Load, Presumed Guilty)</B></div> <div> <B>Chuck..........Stephan Quadros</B></div> <div> <B>Willie.........Richard Gabai (Dinosaur Island)</B></div> <div> <B>Donna..........Mia Ruiz</B></div> <div> <B>Harriet........Kym Sawtelle</B></div> <div> <B>Cory's father..Jake Jacobson</B></div> <div> <B>Harcourt.......Rufus Norris</B></div> <div> <B>               Stella Kastner</B></div> <div> <B>               Axel Toowey</B></div> <div> <B>               C.D.J. Koko</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Critique</U></B><B>: The face off between Chuck and Dell doesn't provide the sparks. The acting is pretty stiff. They take the supernatural goings on pretty lightly. Perhaps that is meant to provide a surreal undercurrent, as though the fantastic becomes part of everyday life. But sometimes bad acting is bad acting. Bonnie's insistence that she not be buried here if she is killed is definitely a high point. A nice deflation takes place when Willie and Rena (more demon fodder) shut off their engine while the others call for them not to while their windows are closed. Evil dead copy. But good. The demons are cheaper but quite serviceable. Apocalyptic endings are generally a no no, but anchored believably here in the isolation of the phantom farmhouse.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Plot Summary</U></B><B>: 1931. A crucified man is burned. In the present, the spells and Christ's sacred heart can't keep something out. George transforms. Cory had a meeting with his alcoholic father, When his father commits suicide, he goes to the farm where his father was born--it's his land now. Ever since the suicide, he's had an urge to get out to "that barn". A little girl points a stick at their rover from the hillside with a smirk. Now that's a haunting scene. When he sees a gas station he realizes he has seen it in a nightmare: one in which is blood soaked laughing mother welcomes him home. The man warns them that there's no Carter place. His wife is getting nervous about the whole trip. We meet Dell and Linda who we don't like. Barbara and Mike come as well. Cory admits that his father slit his wrists after they met. Cory's father's family had been killed just after father was born. The proprietor, Harcourt, tells them the dead own the farm--not Cory. The alternately mean and nice Harcourt says that in '29 while all the other families were in church, he saw black blood on the walls and figures laughing from the shadows. The group heads into a Lovecraftian landscape boasting maggots hatching from goose eggs and a crucified skeleton in front of the ruins of the farm house. Cory reaches for a skull and has a memory of his fathers' older brother's death. The farm house is in ruins, but stepping inside, the house is intact. The folks sense there's something very wrong. Cory walks into the room and finds a headless skeleton grandmother. The group heads into what they think is a farmhouse on which is scrawled Nunc protestas Satane vivet: one of the girls translates, "Satan shall walk" and things get housey. When the skeleton falls from the cross, they try to leave, but the cars have gone demonically dead. They try to walk out. Bonnie insists that if she dies, that she not be buried there. A fog engulfs them, putting them in various places and then they're back at the farm house. Bonnie is soon turned into a doll by a little girl. Chuck who is gay, appears to want to start things up again with Barbara. A specter of grandmother (Regina Carter, b.1889) appears to Cory--and he is directed to her diary, which tells of the conjuring of Delos and the spells that had protected her. Two of the seven daggers that can kill the son of Satan are there. (same daggers as in the omen) The followers of Enders had come to this valley, but he turned out to be a Satan worshiper. Enders and his followers were burned in this house. Mrs. James' babies were not born human. However, Cory's father the only survivor of the massacre of'29 was different. A succubus lures Chuck and Stacy out while the others are in a demon induced stupor. The following action scene is diverting, featuring shuffling demons and karate kicks. Dell and Tracy make a run for it. Soon, however, the fog descends. Bonnie had felt there's something in the barn. The altar there is beautiful to Regino--the effect is she's sucked into it with a tongue. We sensed finding it beautiful would be a problem. The group heads out to the barn where they hope to find some clue to a weakness in the demon. Will conjuring Grandmother help? Her soul seems to be lingering here. Cory wants to find out if there's anything the demons are afraid of. Cory finally plays the dagger card to thwart the demons, but it looks like too little too late. The survivors hole up in the boarded up house. When Jack gets a bite, it's the beginning of the end. His hand goes demonic and Evil Deady. George, it appears, has been taken. He goes revoltingly demonic "and now my pig, you die. Blood. Fire." Pretty soon its back to the house where things really heat up--in fact too much heat. Ender shows up and distracts the demons. Soon the son shows and they start madly scrawling pentagrams. Cory becomes the good demon and it's professional wrestling time. </B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>