The Church
Directed by Michele Soavi
Ravenous demons imprison visitors inside an ancient church in the third entry in the Italian "DEMONS" series. Though Mario Bava's son Lamberto directed the first two films, for this entry, assistant director Michele Soavi (CEMETERY MAN) took over, while Bava and DEMONS 1 and 2 co-writer Dario Argento penned the screenplay. The result is a heart-stopping nightmare featuring an onslaught of gory horrors that will have you steering clear of old churches on your next Italian vacation. Asia Argento stars, while Philip Glass (CANDYMAN) provides the scary score.
Ravenous demons imprison visitors inside an ancient church.
Cast: Hugh Quarshie, Tomas Arana
Member Reviews
It's kinda meh. I don't think things really come together here, but there's something to it and I'd love to see a reinterpretation of this. (Disclaimer, I really liked the suspiria reinterpretation hehe.) The music was good though, nice synths and pads. 3/5
It's not great by any means but the plot is interesting and some of the effects were cool
Not good. The movie doesn't really watch as a cohesive storyline. I gave up with 30 minutes left because I got sick of waiting for any of the characters to react in any sort of semi-realistic way. It's basically a series of barely related vignettes.
This film has a lot of strange, visions. Did he have a limited,time frame to cast this almost great story?
A lot of people seem to dislike this movie, and I think a lot of that comes from hearing it's the follow up to Demons and Demons 2 but then they watch it and it's nothing like the other two movies. But what a lot of people don't realize or consider is that this, (along with Demons and Demons 2) is a part of the Dèmoni series, which has something like, 11 movies in it at this point...? And none of them are like Demons and Demons 2. This isn't even the third movie, like Shudder says it is. This is the 4th movie. The third movie was the made for TV movie, The Ogre, which was a part of the television series, Brivido Giallo. It was even released outside of Italy as Demons III: The Ogre. But once you stop thinking this is going to be anything like Demons 1 and 2 and just look at it as its own thing, this is actually a really well done religious horror movie with great atmosphere and some very nice looking creature effects. The story is a little all over the place and a bit hard to follow, but it's an Italian horror movie... Show me one that isn't like that... If anything, I found this one easier to follow than most. It IS a slow burn, and all of the really cool looking creatures get very little screen time, but all in all I still liked it.