Don't Kill It (2016)

An ancient demon terrorizes a tiny Mississippi town.

Director:

Mike Mendez

Writers:

Dan Berk, Robert Olsen

Stars:

Dolph Lundgren, Kristina Klebe, Tony Bentley

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Dolph Lundgren	...	Jebediah Woodley
Kristina Klebe	...	Agent Evelyn Pierce
Tony Bentley	...	Chief Dunham
James Chalke	...	Pastor Erikson
Miles Doleac	...	Deacon Shepard
Toby Bronson	...	Otis Willard
Michelle West	...	Amber
Todd Farmer	...	Marcus
Dawn Ferry	...	Wendy
Thomas Owen	...	Jeremy
Billy Slaughter	...	Agent Jackson
Aaron McPherson	...	Emmett
Joh Bohn	...	Agent Lug
Jasi Cotton Lanier	...	Rose (as Jasi Lanier)
Michael Aaron Milligan	...	Frank

Storyline

When an ancient demon is accidentally unleashed in a sparsely populated Mississippi town of Chickory Creek, their only hope of survival lies in the hands of a grizzled old demon hunter Jebediah Woodley and his reluctant partner FBI agent Evelyn Pierce.

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Plot Keywords:

sex scene | nightmare | blood | murder | prostitute | 

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Genres:

Action | Comedy | Fantasy | Horror

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Official Sites:

Archstone Distribution (international sales)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

3 March 2017 (USA)

Also Known As:

A megölhetetlen

Filming Locations:

Mississippi, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$3,500,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Archstone Pictures,Burning Sky Films,Bottom Line Entertainment

Technical Specs

Runtime:

83 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Director Mike Mendez had been attached to the project for three years before it got made.

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Goofs

In the flashback where Marcus invades the home with a shotgun, he is not initially wearing the black contact lenses. When it cuts away to the victim and then back to him he has them back in.

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Connections

References Masters of the Universe (1987)

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Soundtracks

Molotov Moon
Written and performed by Jimmer Podrasky

User Reviews

they killed it

This should be on a double bill with Devil's Candy for some sort of "demonic letdowns" movie night. Just like with that film, a harsher rating is deserved here because they started out with some great elements but ultimately failed to deliver the goods.

Demons? Check. Lots of senseless, demon-induced violence? Check. Simple but effective premise? Check. Dolph Lundgren - aka the most underrated actor of our time - as the demon-hunter?!!

...and they STILL managed to ruin it. I guess you have to know how to actually juggle all these hot coals if you are gonna make something entertaining out of them. In cleverer hands, the kill-premise would have been spun out to its full inventiveness (e.g. what happens if multiple parties are responsible for a death, for instance if two people hold the gun and pull the trigger at the same time, or if someone is eaten alive by ants). Here, we just get exasperated Dolph dealing with stupid authorities and townspeople (led by an out-of-place pastor), trapped between one improbable copout plot move-along and the next. There's also a female FBI agent co-lead, who is mediocre in every sense of the word; she helps bring this pointless little venture to its fizzly non-climax. As with most demon horror, the whole point is to NOT let the demon/antichrist/wizard/evil scientist open up an evil gateway to a dimension of pain and terror...but we all know they are gonna get tantalizingly close, and we're gonna see some great climactic demon gate SFX before the good guys pull the plug on the dimensional resonator or upset the blood rune arrangement or whathaveyou. And yeah, they do the demon gate thing, but it has got to be one of the WEAKEST demon gate climaxes in the genre. Instead, it goes for some 'emotional drama' BS angle and fails on every level.

My advice to the filmmakers is to study the classics. If you mention a demon gate, then you better spend like half of your budget making those last 5-10 minutes of the film literally the coolest part of the film. Otherwise you get an F like these idiots.