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Black Demons (1991)

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Three American college students, Dick, his sister Jessica, and her British boyfriend Kevin, are traveling through Brazil on vacation when Dick, after attending a bizarre voodoo ceremony, develops strange powers. When their jeep breaks down near a small plantation in the jungle outside Rio, the site of a former slave rebellion 150 years ago, Dick uses his powers to raise the dead of six executed Negro slaves whom target the college kids and the residents of the plantation to seek revenge for their deaths. --IMDb
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Review by Christopher
Added: January 29, 2005
Dick, his sister Jessica and her boyfriend Kevin are on a photography visit in Brazil. Dick is heavily interested in black magic and voodoo. After he gets in an argument with the couple, he goes off on his own and comes across two members of the Macumba. He convinces one of them to let him come to a ceremony so he can also become one of them. When he's taken to the ceremony later that evening, he records the entire thing with his cassette recorder. He receives a Macumba symbol charm for his initiation and then drinks the blood of a recently decapitated bird. He passes out soon after from whatever else was in the blood.

The next morning in the hotel the three of them have been staying at, Kevin gets the job of waking up Dick. They eventually get their things together and begin driving to a destination that is to take several hours. Their jeep dies half way there and they are met by a couple that was hiking in the forest, Sonya and Jose. The couple offers the three a place to sleep due to their situation. With little to no choices other than to accept, they head to the couples home. When they arrive, their housekeeper Maria quickly grows suspicious of Dick. Later on she catches a glimpse of Dick's Macumba charm. Even though she knows danger is coming, she says nothing.

Later that night while everyone is sleeping, Dick goes out into the backyard and stumbles upon a graveyard. He brings out his charm and begins playing the ceremony he recorded. The graveyard catches fire, tombstones begin to leak blood, then zombies begin to rise up from the grave. Sonya wakes up and goes outside to see what's going on. She notices lights flashing by the garage. When she goes to check it out, she's soon trapped by four zombies. One gouges her eye out with a meat hook. As she screams before the final blow is delivered by one of the zombies carrying an axe, Maria is awoken and the screaming stops.

Jose is the first one up in the morning as he believes Sonya went into town before he awoke. Jessica wakes up shortly after to find Dick laying on the ground outside. When the rest of the group runs outside to wake him up, he's quickly question to what he was doing. Giving them an excuse, they bring him inside and wait for Sonya to return. When night falls, Maria is caught performing a voodoo ritual. Jose flips his lid and fires her. She's sent Maria to her room for the rest of the night. Once she hears noises coming from outside of her room, she goes to investigate but is greeted by a few zombies. She becomes another victim to an eye gouging, which is followed by an axe to the back of her head.

With the Jessica, Kevin and Jose all in the kitchen, the generator stops working and the lights go out. Jose and Kevin try to fix it, but to no avail. When they return to Jessica, she has them go search for Dick. Instead they find Maria hanging from a noose in a near by closet. Dick comes out of hiding shortly after and then Jose reveals an old tale about the house. It seems as if a lot of negro slaves use to work the corn fields centuries ago. Six of the slaves hung themselves in that very house. Now they have been brought back to life to take revenge on six white people.

Morning soon comes as the four remaining people try to drive into town. They fall into a ditch while Kevin was making a sharp turn. Jessica and Kevin to look for some branches to stick under the wheels. Jose sees Dick's Macumba charm for the first time and figures out he is the one that arose the slaves from the dead. Dick takes of him with a knife to the throat. He begins to yell for help and acts as if the zombies were the ones who killed Jose. As Jessica is staring at Jose on the ground, she sees him holding Dick's charm, but when she looks back a minute later, it's gone. She confronts Dick about it while Kevin is off in the garage. Dick turns on his sister and tries to kill her. It's up to Kevin to get rid of the zombies so Dick can become normal once again.

Known more for his cannibal films, Lenzi takes his second shot at a zombie film. The slaves don't have much to them, which turns out to make them look pretty nice. Each of the six have a noose around their neck, chains on their feet and wrists, white tore up clothes, and a different weapon. Their faces are scars and decay all over them, which is all that was needed to create and nice undead look. Whenever they would be near by, their soon-to-be victims heard chains rattling. The chain rattling was obviously thrown in during editing, but it matched the sound when they walked.

The small amount of gore scenes were two eye gougings, an axe chop to the back of the head, a throat cutting, and a pitchfork to the gut. The two eye gouges looked the same, but good. The axe chop had a piece of brain shown as blood spewed out, which made for the best gore scene of the film. The throat cutting was made with a knife and had a decent amount of blood gushing out. The pitchfork to the gut involved four red marks on a shirt, very weak. There was an additional chop with the axe, but the scene cut to Maria right before it happened, also a disappointment.

Lenzi had a very hard time with this film due to the actors. Dick had been the only one with real experience and he still didn't live up to his full potential. He also didn't get along with Kevin just because of personal differences, which showed during the film. Sonya was scheduled to be played by a different actress, but she was pulled away by her contractor and Lenzi was given a different actress with very small experience and a lot less attractive as the female who was planned for Sonya. To disappoint Lenzi even more, she got ill during shooting and was forced to miss a lot of filming. In the end, more appearances from the zombie slaves would have boosted this film an extraordinary amount.

Final Conclusion: 6/10
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