Dark Rising (2007 Video)
8/10
Much Better Than "Lame"
31 August 2009
Warning: Spoilers
This movie is far and beyond better than most of the recent crop of horror movies. Yes, it's campy, but it doesn't pretend to be serious and should not be reviewed like it's competing for an Oscar.

It starts off with the obligatory translation of some ancient text by a professor alone in home with his young daughter. Gotta love some of the verbal comebacks the little girl comes up with while daddy is telling her a bedtime story. The professor continues his translation aloud (Always a bad idea as seen in previous movies like Evil Dead) and a portal is opened up and the daughter disappears.

The rest of the movie takes place 20 years later with a group heading out for a camping trip (used hundreds of times... so what) One of the girls, a wannabe witch, reads from the very same book seen earlier and finds the translation by the professor and reads it. Surprise, the portal opens and out pops a demon pursued by the little girl all grown up and HOT. Turns out she has been in that demon dimension for the last 20 years and turned into a serious demon fighter (which some reviewers would have known if they'd actually watched the movie) What follows it campy and funny. Nasty demon just keeps coming back after getting hacked a number of times. There's humor, horror, gratuitous nudity and a little silly romance.

Now I'm not saying this movie is the best thing since sliced bread but it is definitely worth a watch and much better than so much of the horror being cranked out these days ie any of the crap by The Asylum.

Oh, and Ricky, played by Wrestler Christian listed under his real name was hilarious both as human and later on demon spawn.

All in all it was a fun movie.
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