Damned, talk about bad luck! The brief plot description on the DVD-cover sounded remotely interesting and I actually put my hopes up to see some delightfully cheesy 80's gore. Then you discover that the film is directed by Bill Rebane and suddenly all your expectations vanish! No offense Bill, but you're a ham director and it looks like you deliberately ruin all the scripts that end up in your hands. "The Demons of Ludlow" shamelessly rips off John Carpenter's "The Fog", with the plot about a snowy little town that celebrates its two hundredth anniversary. But the history pages of Ludlow are written in innocent blood and vengeful spirits return to present day to kill the descendants of the town's founding fathers. See, pretty much identical to Carpenter's classic. I don't have a problem with imitations (loads of great horror films borrow ideas from others), but the elaboration here is really weak and pathetic. For example: the titular demons live inside an antique piano (?), they can perfectly fire off shotguns, they take over the plastic bodies of a little girl's dolls and, when they eventually killed everybody they hated, they do a little bit of ballroom dancing!?! Most sequences are just incredibly boring, with tedious dialogs and atrocious acting performances, and the supposedly horrific moments only evoke feelings of pity. Ever seen a bleeding piano float in the air while cheesy laughter can be heard? Didn't think so... Personally, I couldn't wait to see all the characters die painful deaths and I was secretly hoping that the possessed piano would eventually crash-land on director Rebane. Insufferable 80's crap, avoid at all costs.
Review of The Demons of Ludlow
