This was one of those ubiquitous videos that nearly every rental place had. It's got a nice looking box, and it looks like a pretty satisfying 80s slasher. It's a strange movie, since it moves too slowly to be an effective slasher, and something makes this play out a little differently than normal horror movies.
The demon is tethered to the father that summoned it. When the demon inflicts pain on victims, the father can feel it. The demon is mostly invincible, except that injuries to the father affect it. The more I think about this arrangement, the less sense it makes. If it were a direct reversal - with each feeling the other's pain, that would work. But this makes it so the demon is a conduit to feed pain back to the summoner, in exchange for revenge. I suppose that makes sense, in a way.
There's a dreamy haze throughout the movie. It's more obvious during the daytime sequences. This might be part of why I kept thinking that the movie felt like a Grimm fairy tale.
I don't think I especially liked it, but I have a degree of respect for it. It's a different kind of story, and the horror medium needs as many different ones as possible.
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