The lead actor here, Itay Tyran, is worthy of year-end awards. (Don't be surprised if he turns up on my best actor ballot on various critics polls.) And there is only one shot in this movie I dislike, a cutesy homage to a classic horror movie that diminishes the gravity of what's transpired. It turns a ghastly tragedy into just another horror movie. Without that shot, Demon stand entirely on its own as a howl of pain into the unfeeling void.

55

I've been to crazier weddings.

Tasteful and restrained, Demon is a horror movie for people who don't like horror movies. I intend that as an insult.

A very smart film that requires at least some knowledge of Polish WWII history and the ties it has to modern day Poland. A lot of people were thrown off by the ambiguous ending, but once the allegory is clear the ending becomes much less ambiguous. On the surface, Demon is a slow-burn, beautifully-shot, atmospheric and creepy possession film, but really it's so much more than that!

After the disappearances and the erasure of what traces remain it is not enough to forget but to remake all of life into a waking dream where what was never has been. A perpetual present constantly dissolving and reconstituting over and over depending upon the immediate needs of those who are in a position to. A fortress against bad dreams that would trouble sleep, but there are no bad dreams. We have built a wall. We have buried them in the earth.

How many angry ghosts does it take to ruin a Polish wedding?

Demon

I found almost nothing worthwhile going on with this movie. Like most films, it does have certain elements that are interesting, and Itay Tiran‘a performance is... something, but overall a pretty dull, and dull looking, god I hated the color of this film, picture.

C

That wedding is one to be remembered.......for all the wrong reasons. It kept getting worse. The solution, get more vodka. I'm with these cane carrying parents.

Could it get worse...oh lovely, blast this family, cause they have cobwebs need blowing out. This is how wrongdoings should bite back.

I'm in love with the professor, hes so gentle, but was he back in the day? That is the question I didn't fathom out what happened to Hana, cept her possessed failure getting flung in a quarry.

The characters provide the comedy. Let's get the Dr to drive the priest home cause he's as drunk as a skunk, or was it sober haha

Sometimes get the feeling that Polish filmmakers & crew don’t get too much recognition, so I’m always excited to watch a film like Demon (news regarding the director is terrible though!) But that entirely a side I’m hoping to watch more similar films soon! 🇵🇱 

p.s.
color grading/color correcting is absolutely superb!

The Dybbuk strikes again — this time in the midst of a Polish wedding celebration. Clearly, this is a love it or hate it film. I love it! Fair warning here: Demon will probably only appeal if, like me, you can appreciate a light-hearted mix of vintage mystery, Jewish folklore and Polanski-ish tone!

HYPNOTIZING in its mild surrealism. DARING in its soft genre-bending. CHARMING in its Eastern European spirit.

Después de verla me leí unas ceiticas que me permitieron ver un poco más allá, y mi cabeza explotó en mil partes. Excelente película

Thoroughly engaging story about a couple who have their wedding reception on unhallowed ground where the groom becomes the target of a brooding spirit. Watch it.

I didn't adore the ending, but everything else really gripped me. Incredible possession performance from the lead actor, a memorable handful of characters, some really interesting themes about cultural assimilation. The arthouse ambiguity of the last fifteen minutes just kinda killed the momentum and didn't add much substance.

I’m torn between wanting this to have been more subtle and less subtle. Stylistically it was subdued but not listless. The lead actor gave a really good performance. “Best possession” should be an acting category. Horror about memory, buried things, history and erasing, land..... the juxtaposition of the drunken wedding sequences and the possession stuff, behind walls, under ground - that was the most effective part of the movie for me 

(this falls into what people call elevated horror these days but I don’t know if I’d call it a horror movie - which is a necessary quality of elevated horror lol)

Not sure I understood all the cultural specificities, but when it works it's dark and mysterious and unique. Still not sure there's enough here though.

"What we were eye-witnesses to was only the effect of collective hallucination. We think we took part in it, but we only think we did. I'm dreaming you. And you're dreaming me. It's quite simply just a collective dream. A dream in a dream. In fact there never was a wedding. You weren't here. I wasn't here..."

I actually really dug the ambiguous ending. But I get why this isn’t for everyone.

Are you demon posssesed and looking to lie low? Consider a Polish wedding.

To spell it out for all the reviews on here that didn't get it, this is a allegory for Poland's willful amnesia about the holocaust. Too bad the movie didn't make the point with more scares or suspense.

gbnkj

felt like I was reconnecting with my long lost polish heritage on this one and then oops! nazis

lol actually some of you are on some dumb shit

A little heavy handed and the last act doesn't totally work, but Get Out by way of Ida is a great idea for a movie.