Corey travels to his old, burned down family farm in the middle of nowhere to learn more about his family's dark past, accompanied by his girlfriend and eight of their other friends.
They are warned off by an old gas station owner, but they proceed to the farm anyway. When they get there, they find it a burned out husk of just a few freestanding walls. But when they pass through the door, they find the inside intact, just the way Corey's grandmother had left it when she died decades ago. As they look for answers, they encounter demon children, demon women, zombies, a fog that transports them to random strange places, and all sorts of other demonic shenanigans.
There are some really solid gore effects, grotesque demon makeup, some fun demony set pieces, and some of the most delightfully goofy protagonists I've ever seen.
Case in point, Corey's friends Chuck and Stacy, two stage magicians who
arrive in tuxedos, pulling flowers from their sleeved and doves from their jackets. And did I mention they do karate? Nothing puts down a demon like a well-placed roundhouse kick to the face.
And furthermore, the whole gang doesn't seem too bothered when their friend is turned into a doll and burned. They don't even shed a tear when they find the bodies of the kung fu magicians mentioned above. When the stars of this low rent cast include a stunt woman trying to act and a Playgirl model not really trying to act, I guess you can't expect much.
Anyway, they break the oldest rule in the horror movie book - never read Latin written in blood out loud. Suddenly, all hell breaks loose, with Corey's friends being killed and quickly inducted into the undead army to take on our hero. Only Corey, armed with his grandmother's book of spells, can stand against the demons and... save the farm?Survive the night? It's unclear what the demons want and what Corey can do about it. But there you go.
I think we all have encountered movies that dance on the edges of our memories, not quite giving us enough information to positively identify them. It has taken almost 25 years, but I think I have found in Demon Wind a movie that I remember seeing small pieces of in the middle if the night at a friend's house when I was a kid. It spooked me enough then to burn into my brain images of demonic/zombie figures converging on a farm and reality shifting and twisting for the protagonists.
It's possible that Demon Wind still isn't that elusive movie in my distant, vague memory, but it sure feels like it might be. But even if it isn't the same thing, I'm at least glad I saw this unusual, gory, odd little movie from 1990. It's not the most amazing movie ever made, but it does have some oddities that would make it fun to watch in a group on a bad movie night. At least I can say, Demon Wind doesn't blow.
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