Demon Wind was our first film, it's a 1990 horror movie about a haunted house and the numskulls who visit. It's written and directed by Charles Philip Moore and it's the second of the 11 films he's written and the first of the 4 films he directed. Corman fans might remember the Not Of This Earth remake he penned but didn't direct. Yeah, you probably remember it was pretty poor. I know I do.
I thought that the actress that played Elaine, the lead guy's girlfriend, was familiar but could not remember why. Francine Lapensée is the actress, she has 14 credits on the IMDb and none of the titles are familiar. My Watched Movie List says I had seen Demon Wind back in march of 1993 but I didn't remember the story at all. Mind you it's so much like so many haunted house stories that they tend to blur together. Eric Larson plays the boyfriend, I hadn't heard of him, nor any of the rest of the cast. The pair are off to grandma's house with some pals. Eric had just seen his father and the next day daddy slit his wrists, so he's a bit disturbed.
At the house they encounter some evil spirits and one by one the monster's put the bite on our travelers. Eric becomes infected but manages to defeat the demons. He gets to leave with Elaine but all the other's are dead. Pays to take some friends when you go into monster country. It's a below average movie and there isn't much of anything that is worth mentioning.
Angel-A is a 2005 Luc Besson movie, he produced, wrote and directed this encounter between a looser in Paris and an angel. Jamel Debbouze plays Andre, a scumbag looser, and Pie Rasmussen plays Angel-A, an angel. Andre owes money to all sorts of low lifes and he can't pay. He's going to jump off a bridge into the Seine when he's joined by a tall blonde woman on the bridge, she jumps and he jumps in after her. He pulls her to shore and they spend the rest of the movie making Andre's life better. There's a bit of humor, some small bit of action, and plenty of crying and character development. I liked the angel but I didn't care for the scumbag too much. Glad I saw it, there are plenty of beautiful shots of Paris and the B&W photography is nice to see. I don't think I need to see it again so I'm not going to pick up a copy.
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