Review of E-Demon (2018) by Cooldan989 — 26 Sep 2018

I thought this movie was really, really good...it definitely pushes not only the "computer-screen genre" in a lot of cool new directions, but also the possession-horror genre! For one, I haven't seen too many horror films that dare to suggest that possession isn't a "perfectly-nice human being becomes a totally-unlike-him-or-her devil, and then snaps out of it by the end of the film" kinda thing.

..but that it's actually just people forced to give into their savage, willfully-ignorant, submissive natures a *lot* more than they would if they weren't possessed. The film also plays with tone and suspense very well; at some point, it diverts from a millenial-Michael-Haneke vibe to a gothic-anarchy sort of vibe, with some jazzy tonal diversions here and there (which could very well be likened to blaxploitation, flicks considering one of the main characters is black).

..but, it never goes too far off the rails of what the film actually is in the end, which is a bleak, socially-damning tragedy with lots of horror in the mix. The film is also very skillfully made, specifically in the way it cuts between the myriad of computer screens, in a way that is both dramatically-satisfying and unexpected in forcing you to decide what you want to look at sometimes, and then forcing you to look at something you didn't expect to looking at other times (but never all-out indulging in the gore or the potential-campiness as some lesser films would have done).