10 WAY Better Endings For Recent Movies
1. Black Ops Priests Battle A Demon - Demonic
Neill Blomkamp's Demonic is one of the most dispiriting misses of the year, and yet further proof that the District 9 director has lost the mojo that once suggested he was a prodigious talent.
This low-budget sci-fi horror is centered around the intriguing idea of a woman, Carly (Carly Pope), accidentally unleashing demons after entering a simulation to interact with the mental remnants of her comatose mother.
The marketing lingered on the deliciously enticing idea that the third act would feature a clan of black ops priests teaming up to battle a demonic entity as it rampages around, but perhaps due to budgetary or pandemic-related restrictions, it never happens.
Just as we expect a neat, Aliens-esque bug hunt to kick off, Carly arrives at the site of the conflict only to find the priests have all been butchered off-screen. Talk about an anti-climax.
What follows is instead a hot load of nonsense as Carly slays the demon, rather than delivering the promised showdown between a fleet of badass black ops priests and the creature. Lame isn't even the word.