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Director: Emmett Alston
Writers: Bruce Akiyama & Jim Bertges
Cast---
George Kennedy ...  Bill Crafton
David Michael O'Neill ...  Jack Bergman
Pamela Gilbert ...  Carrie Austin
Billy Jayne ...  Tom Phillips (as Billy Jacoby)
Hank Stratton ...  Fred Proctor
Colleen McDermott ...  Cindy Ossman
Michelle Bauer ...  Betsy
Shannon Kennedy ...  Tara
John Durbin ...  Minister

Runtime: 91 min
DEMONWARP (1988)

 This is the weirdest, most fun bigfoot movie you will ever see, and it isn't really a bigfoot movie. With a
mixture of monsters, zombies, boobies, bigfoot and gore, this movie becomes a memorable viewing
experience and a hands-down classic in the realm of 80s horror cinema. I can remember renting this
gem when I was a kid at my local video store, Video World, but what I didn't remember was just how
awesome this film really was.

 A century ago a meteorite crash lands in front of a priest and the events of the film are set in motion.
Fast forward to modern day (or 1988 to be exact) and we meet Bill Crafton (played by George Kennedy,
who was no doubt hired for two days of work) and his daughter Julie. They are debating the merits of
mismatched socks during a rousing game of Trivial Pursuit when Bigfoot crashes into the house and
knocks Bill down. Julie is attacked and kidnapped by the creature. A couple of months later we meet a
group of five kids who are driving up to that cabin to go hiking at Demon Woods, which just happens to
be the name of the area. They think they are there for a weekend getaway, but really they've been
drafted by Jack, the leader of the group and the nephew of Uncle Clem, who owns the cabin. Jack needs
their help to find Uncle Clem, who has gone missing in the woods that have a history of weird shit.
Everything from Bigfoot to UFOs.

 No one really believes the stories until they receive proof that very same night. We get some booby
shots and then Bigfoot attacks the house. He ruins their truck and kills two of Jack's friends, leaving him
in charge of the two surviving women. In the morning they head into the woods to hike back out and get
some help. Meanwhile, some random people show up to get killed. A dorky guy runs into a zombie, then
gets stabbed by an enraged Bigfoot. Gorgeous scream queen Michelle Bauer (Hollywood Chainsaw
Hookers) shows up as Betsy to get naked and run away from the Bigfoot. Jack and the girls run into Bill
and they regroup at his campsite. He has been looking for his daughter for a while now, and they think
they should maybe team up. Apparently, Bigfoot is smart, can defuse bombs and likes technology so
they agree to pool their resources. Betsy arrives at the camp and as they are about to treat her wounds,
Bigfoot shows up!

 Bigfoot messes the camp up, knocks Jack out, kills Bill (bye bye George) and kidnaps the girls. Jack
eventually comes to and sees everyone missing except for one of the girls who is now missing an eye
and appears to be a zombie. He follows her to a cave where more zombies show up. The Bigfoot attacks
and Jack shoots it. The creature transforms like the Wolfman and it turns out that Bigfoot was actually
Jack's missing Uncle Clem! Jack finds a spaceship in the cave and the priest that found the meteorite a
century ago is still alive and in the employ of a silly-looking demon alien. Apparently, the demon made
the zombies as slave labor and turned Clem into Bigfoot to help acquire technology of all kinds to help
repair the spaceship that was damaged a century ago. Now it is up to Jack and his dynamite to stick a
knife in the priests ass and put an end to the alien and his zombies and his Bigfoot-making tentacles!

 This is by no means a perfect movie. In once scene near the end you can see a crew member sitting
on some rocks of the cave! The addition of zombies is cool, but unfortunately most of them look like
guys in cheap Halloween masks. There is no actual "demon warp" so yeah the title doesn't make any
sense. Also the Bigfoot costume is kind of cool but kind of lame at the same time. It has no eyes, which
makes no sense, because it can see pretty damn well. The fact that Clem is Bigfoot is ridiculous too,
because he contacted Jack about Bill's Bigfoot attack and he came out to investigate it when he went
missing. Maybe there was another Bigfoot, I don't know.

 Now that all the negative stuff is out of the way, I'll explain why this film gets a golden coffin. What do
you get when you mix a wacky, fun horror movie plot with tons of great nudity, tons of fun gore gags,
tons of monster action, Michelle Bauer, alien demons, explosions, shower scenes and nary a drop of
boredom? Well, my splatter-hungry friends, you get a golden coffin winner. This film is awesome! Bigfoot
works for aliens and zombies? That's great! Lot of long, lingering boob shots? That's super great! Yeah,
this 80s masterpiece has its flaws and not everyone will dig it, but I had a blast watching this off-the-wall
horror romp and it had all the required elements that a golden coffin winner should have.





                                                                                                      - Jose Prendes
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