Most direct to video horror movies from the 80's and late 90's knew the formula to follow. 1. Provide a ridiculous plot. 2. Give your characters ridiculous dialogue 3. Provide the audience with a ton of blood and gore (to the comical Evil Dead level). 4. Never take yourself serious. Demon Wind does all of this and more. I remember watching this movie on HBO or maybe Cinemax (they both rotated the same films periodically in the 90's) when I was younger. Even then - the movie made me laugh and appreciate how silly it was. This movie won't scare you, most likely. It will, however, make you laugh at how ridiculous the dialogue, acting, and production value (though I really appreciated the makeup effects) is.

In another of the dreadful horror films I seem so masochistically attracted to, we have a bunch of friends stuck in a haunted house slowly being killed one by one thanks to a horde of zombies that spurt yellow blood and have very bad dental problems. The first 45 minutes is all talk however, and considering the young thespians cannot act their way out of a paper bag and are given the most banal dialogue ever to dispassionately recite, this is especially painful to sit through. If you manage to stay awake through that nonsense, things don't get any better.. with bad make-up galore and cheesy, bargain basement (not-so-special) effects. As for the conclusion.. well, what's the betting that the old-timer who warned them against going to the spooky mansion in the first place will turn up and save the day for the last two survivors (a boy and a girl, of course) with his mystical powers? Please.. life is too short for these kind of movies. Donate the time you would otherwise have spent watching this tripe helping out the community, do a couple of shifts in a soup kitchen or something. You'll feel you've actually done something productive with your life, and you won't have put money into the pockets of studios who churn out irredeemable rubbish such as this.Unfortunately, it's already too late for me.. now, where did I put that copy of 'Pumpkinhead'? 1/10

When a horror movie has the massive success like "The Evil Dead", copy cats are expected."Demon Wind" went too far and copied almost everything! from Raimi's cult classic. DW is mindless fun. Watch it if you like super low budget horror flicks. There are some gory moments that won't disgust you but will make you laugh. This flick is the perfect example of how plagiarism always fails. Probably if I wouldn't watched "The Evil Dead" before "Demon Wind" I would n't be that harsh with this cheapie but I had the luck to watch Raimi's work when I was very, very young.Don't watch "Demon Wind". Don't estimulate plagiarism.1/10. Cheap and sometimes fun but there are better late 80's - early 90's cheesy horror flicks.

Question: When is The Evil Dead not The Evil Dead? Answer: When it's Demon Wind. I can only assume neither Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert or Bruce Campbell has seen this movie because, if they had, they would have sued the producers. Let's look at the evidence. The Evil Dead has a group of teenagers driving to an isolated cabin. So does Demon Wind. Evil Dead's storyline involves demons being resurrected. So does Demon Wind. Evil Dead features a character discovering a book with spells in it that resurrected said demons. Demon Wind.., well, you get the idea. There's even a sequence where two characters attempt to get away, only to find their path to freedom blocked by mysterious forces. To compound the Evil Dead plagiarism, this scene then features a female character who appears normal when glimpsed from behind, but when she turns around, she's been possessed by the demons. The only difference in Demon Wind is that the climatic demon assault on the cabin is derivative of Evil Dead's most obvious inspiration, Night of the Living Dead than it is of Sam Raimi's classic.The major difference is that while Evil Dead is a classic, Demon Wind is a distinctly average horror yarn, with a hero who's barely Hal Delrich, never mind Bruce Campbell. The bit with the demonic cattle skull that eats the girl's head is mildly amusing, though