{"id":22531,"date":"2016-09-29T04:31:02","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T08:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=22531"},"modified":"2016-09-29T04:32:22","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T08:32:22","slug":"demon-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/29\/demon-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Demon (2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"demon\"<\/a>Piotr moves to Poland to marry his long-distance girlfriend Zaneta whose immediate family is less than thrilled with the situation but still supportive.\u00a0 As the wedding day approaches, Piotr finds bones in the yard of his marital home.\u00a0 Things take an odd turn and a restless spirit, or dybbuk, possesses the groom. Co-written by Pawel Maslona and director Marcin Wrona, Demon is a slow burn drama with horror elements.\u00a0 The title leads one to believe it would be more straight up horror film but the reality is that it\u2019s a drama about a wedding or marriage that may have been a bad idea to start with and as the film advances and the spirit manifests itself it becomes a battle between people\u2019s feelings and beliefs and people searching for the truth.<\/p>\n

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The characters in the film are interesting but little background is given for them.\u00a0 The viewer is supposed to care about Piotr and Zaneta but little information is given on how they met, what they do, etc.\u00a0 The characters are clearly in love but without background, making it a bit more difficult to root for them and their love.\u00a0 The family dynamic is however interesting with some secrets clearly long buried which ads interest to the story. Playing Piotr, the man coming from England to marry his girl, is Itay Tiran who gives an involved performance.\u00a0 He takes his character and elevates him, making him a loving, worried character trying to fit in until his possession when his whole demeanor switches.\u00a0 His take on the part and the possession are interesting and keep the viewer watching.\u00a0 Playing Zaneta, the bride, is Agnieszka Zulewska who shows love for Piotr and a nice range of emotions as her new husband becomes taken over by something unexplained.<\/p>\n

She acts as the emotional anchor once the possession starts.\u00a0 Another performance worth watching for is Wlodzimierz Press as Teacher, an elderly professor of Zaneta\u2019s who is a great source of information but is also losing his mind probably due to old age.\u00a0 His performance is touching and adds an old world vibe to some scenes.\u00a0 Framing these characters and the beautiful grey Polish countryside is the cinematography by Pawel Flis who shows the solemn beauty of the area and the contrastingly bright wedding reception.\u00a0 The images set the tone early on, as soon as the opening and they work with the story and scenes all the way until the end.<\/p>\n

Demon is more drama than horror but it works.\u00a0 It\u2019s a very slow burn of a film that takes a long time to get really started with not as much action as expected with this subject.\u00a0 It however shows the type of possession well and the reactions to it are natural.\u00a0 The acting is quite good with Itay Tiran doing a less extreme but still effective possession victim.\u00a0 This version of such a story feels more like how some may imagine this would happen in real life and is an interesting take on the dybbuk.\u00a0 The film is slow but not boring with an interesting epilogue and ending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Piotr moves to Poland to marry his long-distance girlfriend Zaneta whose immediate family is less than thrilled with the situation but still supportive.\u00a0 As the wedding day approaches, Piotr finds bones in the yard of his marital home.\u00a0 Things take an odd turn and a restless spirit, or dybbuk, possesses the groom. Co-written by Pawel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[64,219,249,275,367,477,793,1008,1087],"class_list":["post-22531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-adaptation","tag-comedy","tag-d","tag-demonic","tag-foreign","tag-horror","tag-possession","tag-supernatural","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22533,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22531\/revisions\/22533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}