Black Demons (1991)
2/10
Oh my God this is bad...
20 February 2004
Warning: Spoilers
Possible Spoilers (not that it matters)

I am used to some bad acting in B-horror movies, but this one really did a great job finding terrible actors. The lines are delivered in an absolutely wooden manner, obviously momentarily memorized shortly before filming. The worst by far is Jessica, "you. killed. Jose. didn't. you. He. found. out. about. you. Answer. me." <delivered in a monotone like a robot>. On top of that, she has a really big butt! Her brother is a complete joke, what a terrible actor. You have to see the incredibly bad attempt to kill his sister. He makes this really pathetic lunge at her with an axe, while she just goes through the motions of her saying her lines; "Noooo! You're. my. brother! <run away and fake fall down>" Terrible, just terrible.

One thing that wasn't bad was the eerie music. And the actual production quality isn't bad either, the scenes of Brazil are pretty interesting. You just won't believe the acting. Wait until one scene where Jessica's boyfriend Kevin is attacked by the zombies. These are the slowest moving zombies on the planet. Yet when they attack, the victims just cringe, stand there, and are resigned to their fate. Instead of simply running away, Kevin ducks under the blade, but remains in place, dancing around the slow zombie blows. It would have been so easy to leisurely jog away, he wasn't even surrounded. It's almost like he is doing his best to make it look exciting but just can't pull it off. And Jose's death! Hahahaha! What a riot! You can clearly see him breathing when he is supposed to be dead. The whole movie was so fake it was worse than professional wrestling!

And yet they made an effort to really play up the voodoo aspect, the ceremony was well done, the music was good, it was simply the cheesiest acting in film history. Oh and one more thing, these zombies explode if they get near an open flame. Even pouring gasoline on them doesn't just make them burn, it makes them go up like Hiroshima. Hilarious!

Too bad. 2/10
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