{"id":42801,"date":"2024-02-23T11:58:59","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T16:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=42801"},"modified":"2024-02-24T01:41:53","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T06:41:53","slug":"demon-in-the-bottle-1996","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/23\/demon-in-the-bottle-1996\/","title":{"rendered":"Demon in a Bottle (1996)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Full Moon and Charles Band always had a knack for delivering entertainment on the cheap side, allowing them to cover a lot of markets. Their family movies, despite being low budget, had a kind of novelty and charm that is still pretty fun. One of the lesser among the library from Full Moon\u2019s sub label Moonbeam was \u201cDemon in a Bottle.\u201d Despite its sinister title, the movie is very much a take on \u201cThe Goonies\u201d except with only about ten percent of the budget, I\u2019d assume. It has a small cast, very limited scenery, and only has villains that animated\u2014you know, to spare the whole cost of live actors.<\/p>\n

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Four teenagers find a lost treasure buried by an 18th century pirate on a desert island. But they accidentally release the monster who lives inside a bottle, keeping the\u00a0treasure.<\/p>\n

In truth, \u201cDemon in a Bottle\u201d was the first (and only) film in a planned series of Charles Band family movies to be released by Walt Disney, It never made it through to see follow up movies in the series, but it did land on straight to video in other countries. It oddly enough never really made it to the States. Today it\u2019s a very rare bit of nineties nostalgia from Charles Band\u2019s massive library, and it doesn\u2019t really offer up a ton of reasons to want to experience it. The whole premise revolves around this group of kids that unleash a genie from its bottle.<\/p>\n

The genie is this stop motion rampaging monster, and the kids spend a majority of the movie running in and out of rooms, and evading the monster at every turn. There really isn\u2019t anything else to the movie as director Randall Cook shoots around the film\u2019s obvious short comings, centering a lot of the scenes in doors, and shooting primarily in Bucharest. It\u2019s supposed to be New Orleans, though. Despite the stilted dialogue and shaky performances, the monster in \u201cDemon in a Bottle\u201d is at least fun to watch; it\u2019s an imposing villain filled with the obvious Willis O\u2019Brien influences.<\/p>\n

I wish I liked this more, but I just didn\u2019t. I do appreciate the light hearted tone and adventure aesthetic, at the end of the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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