She finds herself entrenched in an ancient hunting ritual that will force her to reckon with her family’s past and her own will to overcome the monstrous obstacles in her path.”
Soon after arriving at his secluded cabin, Robin realizes that the inheritance left her is far more macabre than she had bargained for.
#DEMIGOD MOVIES MOVIE#
Everything is now in place for the chills and thrills to start, and start they most certainly do! What follows is about an hour and a half’s worth of tension and excitement.The next horror movie from Hallowed Ground and The Dinner Party director Miles Doleac is titled Demigod, and we’ve learned today that Rachel Nichols has signed on to star.ĭeadline reports that Nichols, who appeared in The Amityville Horror (2005), The Woods and P2, “will play Robin, who travels with her husband Leo ( Yohance Myles) to Germany’s Black Forest upon the death of her huntsman grandfather. Synonyms are odd “come to my cottage in the forest” sounds fine, “get to my cabin in the woods” is somewhat less enticing. This proximity and relationship does tend to lend itself to a folklore which is adjacent to older belief systems than those adopted following the establishment of the Abrahamic religions. To start with, Robin was brought up in the Schwarzwald, where people have a more, shall we say, robust approach to nature. You should know by now that I always try to avoid spoilers, especially in new films! Suffice it to say that things do get suitably spooky. Obviously what happens next has nothing to do with that particular scenario. Maybe the twist is that it’s the young daughter who’s the psycho… So…isolated cottage in the woods - check, a return to a place which holds memories - check, a suspicious, strange, and heavily armed stranger - check.Īll of our favourite tropes start falling into place and we wait for the slightly strange neighbour to come and do the Murphys harm. Maybe he finds a pre-teenage girl is easier to train than a retriever my experience tells me otherwise. You’re Sure Of A Big Surpriseīefore long there is a shock meeting with Arthur Fuchs (Miles Doleac…yes, the same one!) and his daughter Amalia (Rachel Ryals) while they are out indulging in a bit of family hunting. Anyway, her father dies and she inherits the cottage and they go to check it out. I know…willing suspension of disbelief, etc.
#DEMIGOD MOVIES HOW TO#
Allegedly, this is the house she was brought up in until she was six years old, and where her father taught her how to hunt, about the spirits of the forest, and how to speak fluent English with an American accent. After the opening titles we cut to Robin Murphy (Rachel Nichols) and her husband Leo (Yohance Myles), arriving at a cottage in the middle of the Black Forest in deepest Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Unfortunately, help seems to consist of an amateur caesarian to deliver a strangely shaped child. A pre-title sequence shows a heavily pregnant woman being pursued through woods by a group of unusually dressed women and a strangely masked mountain of a man. I remembered quite enjoying that one, and settled down to an hour and a half’s entertainment.ĭemigod is listed as a pure horror film, as opposed to a horror/thriller like The Dinner Party.
So I clicked on his name and there is was…he’d also directed an indie film I’d reviewed a year ago, namely The Dinner Party. To be honest, that name didn’t ring any bells, however small.
The director of Demigod is listed as Miles Doleac. So I did what I always do when I have any kind of cinematic query I turn to the internet in general and IMDb in particular. It was more a case of something feeling vaguely familiar I couldn’t begin to say what it was - but something undefinable made me think there was something I recognised.