Some of us only watched Demons and Fulci's 80s output while Fabio Salerno (who would go on to make L'altra dimensione and Notte profonda) made this, a movie that takes those films and attacks them with 8mm film in an attempt at possessing their wildness for his very own.
Veronica is a Harpie, a creature that gets attacked by junkies and then turns around and tears them to pieces. She's also a college student and when a professor pressures her into sex for better grades, she tears his face off. Taking a page out of the Fulci characters that seemingly have supernatural powers but still use knives, she's also partial to just stabbing people in the head.
A cop gets involved but can you stop myth? He shoots the demon so many times that it has to be dead, but the body goes missing. Did he just see her walking past him? Is she the friend of his girlfriend who is staying over?
Salerno made short films from his teens until his twenties and even seemed like he would finally get Notte profonda released on video before the distributor canceled on him. Sadly, he took his own life at 29. He obviously was a major Argento fan because this has the maggots from Phenomena, the transformation scene from Demons and the soundtrack feels like Goblin if it was recorded with the same equipment as a second wave of Norweigan black heavy metal band would rely on. That is to say, this sounds exactly like the music I want to hear.
"We are Harpies! We eat corpses! We kill insane people, maniacs, perverts!"
Veronica is a Harpie, a creature that gets attacked by junkies and then turns around and tears them to pieces. She's also a college student and when a professor pressures her into sex for better grades, she tears his face off. Taking a page out of the Fulci characters that seemingly have supernatural powers but still use knives, she's also partial to just stabbing people in the head.
A cop gets involved but can you stop myth? He shoots the demon so many times that it has to be dead, but the body goes missing. Did he just see her walking past him? Is she the friend of his girlfriend who is staying over?
Salerno made short films from his teens until his twenties and even seemed like he would finally get Notte profonda released on video before the distributor canceled on him. Sadly, he took his own life at 29. He obviously was a major Argento fan because this has the maggots from Phenomena, the transformation scene from Demons and the soundtrack feels like Goblin if it was recorded with the same equipment as a second wave of Norweigan black heavy metal band would rely on. That is to say, this sounds exactly like the music I want to hear.
"We are Harpies! We eat corpses! We kill insane people, maniacs, perverts!"
