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The Demon Within

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This is the worst movie I have ever seen. I kept watching it hoping, thinking that the scares were only a scene away, they never came. If you could die from boredom, I would be. Save yourself the pain of death-by-boredom, and pass this one up.

I guess I'll start positive, this movie was decently filmed and the acting was acceptable... okay, I'm done there at being positive!! This movie was so boring it's obscene! I guess it could cater to the fans of the "Poison Ivy" genre, but this movie had no horror, no suspense, no thrills... this movie might have made it as 2 separate stories; the demented cross-dresser/ costume freak-----and the mentally-unstable student with an attraction to MUCH older men... but intertwined as one story; this movie, despite its interesting end,came up dry...real dry (interpretation: BORING!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Writer/director Ian Merrick's DEMON WITHIN is full of such gaping plot holes and inconsistent motivations that it ends up being nothing more than a mishmash of derivative horror cliches. Jeff Fahey, usually a sturdy presence in films, is outrageously awful in the role of Matthew Dobie, who has obviously been both a priest and a stage actor of "great" renown? Katie Wright as our heroine, Sarah, seems to be psychic as she manages to create busts of the murder victims. And somewhere out of the clear blue sky, her professor (Patrick Bauchau) decides she's the target of an Incubus..and his enlightenment comes from a crossword puzzle. Where did he even consider this? The one good thing is the musical score, which combines techno pop with choral vocals reminiscent of THE OMEN. But, that's it....this is coherent, ultimately boring and an ending that comes as a total downer.