Backlash007 ~Spoiler~ Umberto Lenzi's Black Demons is yet another movie that was released under the title of Demons 3 (along with Soavi's The Church and Bava's The Ogre). Everything about this movie (the title, the box art, the dialogue) is so politically incorrect that I had to check it out. Let me tell you right away it's bad; Laughably bad. Black Demons is about a Macumba voodoo ritual that brings back six slaves (the titular demons) who were blinded and hung for trying to escape. Now they must kill six white people to rest in peace, I guess. The film doesn't really give you a lot to go on. Most of the expository dialogue is given by Jose, whose English is not so good. At the same time, his performance is the best part of the movie. Just watch his death scene. It's the apex of perfection, Oscar worthy even. Another noteworthy aspect is the bouncing Molotov cocktails that explode like grenades. If you check out this DVD be sure and watch Lenzi's interview, it's the highlight of the disc. In it, he talks about how disappointing this movie turned out and dogs all of the actors except for Joe Balogh--and he's never been so right. Also, in the interview, Lenzi would have you believe that this is the only zombie movie he made stating that Nightmare City was about radioactive people. Why kid yourself, Umberto? Nightmare City is more of a zombie film than Black Demons is! The only reason I bought Nightmare City is because it is a classic piece of zombie trash cinema. Sadly, Black Demons is not."We're heading for the year 2000 in a sophisticated, technological civilization and you're asking us to believe in a vendetta of the living dead?"

movieman_kev Two Americans and an English man brake down while driving in Brazil. They meet a couple & stay at a cursed house. Then the "Black Demons" (or to the politically correct "African-American living-challenged), who are dead former slaves stick it to the Man by killing Whitey (how's THAT for reparations??!!?). But not before one of the guys gets a necklace from a voodoo tribe for no reason. The acting is putrid at best and some ok death scenes can't liven up this jumbled mess. My Grade: DShriekshow DVD Extras: Interviews with Umberto Lenzi (where he denies making any Zombie movies, prompting anyone who saw this or "Nightmare City" to exclaim "Whatever Umberto") and Olga Pehar; Theatrical Trailer; Trailers for "Killing Birds", "Zombie 2", "Zombie 3", and "zombie 4"

tomas208 Although, even if it had been made in 1980, I would still consider it a very good movie. Lenzi manages perfectly to capture the feeling of the worst of the b-movies (which in my world means the best); a sense of the director being completely uninterested in the script; just making the movie because he has to, or working off an idea which he thought was interesting for one day and then just continuing for the sake of it.The acting and the plot are uninteresting and unimportant. What is interesting is the zombies and the special effects. I don't think I've ever seen real afro-american zombies before, so this was a new exciting thing. They look really frightening and extreme, especially one of them. The deaths in the movie are quite gruesome. I give the movie 9 out of 10 points, for being such a nostalgic shot from the hip. The thing that prevents me from giving it a 10 is that the scenes of dialogue have no charm - and that's because it's from 1991...so no funny men in funny moustaches who say hilarious things.

B. Simmons After a strange amulet is stolen during a voodoo ceremony, the mouldering corpses of dead slaves arise in the Brazilian coffee fields. This almost reminds me of some of the high profile Italian gore films of the late '70's or early '80's. Director Lenzi shows that, after 30 years of film-making, he hasn't lost his touch for creating memorable horror films. A very good film which will keep you on the edge of your seat.