Demon Hunter

Plot synopsis:
The movie begins in the middle of an exorcism, while demon hunter Jake Greyman waits downstairs in case the exorcism does not end well. It's quickly seen that Jake has a dark personality and is more than human. He is solely focused on killing demons regardless of what he must do to accomplish his task. He is a half-demon working for the church.
A young nun named Sarah assists in the investigation to find a connection between the possessed girls. Upon arriving at the office of a modeling agency Jake and Sarah find a corpse. While Jake searches through the desk a succubus comes through the dead man to taunt Jake - telling him that he has a different purpose in life and that he should take his rightful place in the world. Jake returns to the Church to inform that the girls were prostitutes and that there was a fourth name on the list.
Jake and Sarah track down the fourth name on the list, finding her to live in a very large house and that she married a wealthy man. Sarah believes the girl, Nancy, is safer because of this though Jake does not. The Demon has summoned Nancy and she leaves in a limo to the cemetery, where the Demon is hiding. Jake and Sarah, staked outside of Nancy's home, follow her there. At the cemetery Nancy leaves flowers at a grave and sees the demon. She informs her guards that the man is an old friend of her husband's and that they are to wait for her because she wants to speak to him in private and she then follows into the crypt where she saw the demon. Despite following Nancy to the cemetery Jake and Sarah are too late; they approach Nancy's guards just in time to find her stumbling back to the group of men in a daze and already showing signs of demonic possession. Jake knows he must kill Nancy before she has a chance to give birth to the demon's child, just as he did with the previous girls. A fight ensues between Jake and Nancy's guards, Nancy flees and Jake yells to Sarah for her to follow. Jake finds Sarah on the ground, alone, and gets angry when he realizes that she can not kill the girl possessed because she sees the women as victims and believes they could have been saved. Jake tells Sarah to return to the convent and walks away, in which she replies that he is a soulless bastard. At this point the demon had witnessed Jake's fight with the guards and his disappointment in Sarah and he calls to Sarah to come to him and to seek comfort with him. Jake interrogates one of Nancy's guards and walks back to the car where Sarah is waiting. Sarah talks Jake into letting her stay with him by claiming while she can't kill the girls or him, if he turns and joins the demons (knowing now that he is half-demon and more susceptible to becoming evil after hearing Nancy refer to him as half-breed) but that she is willing to die for her convictions and that when Jake goes against this demon she may be the only edge he has.
Jake and Sarah follow a lead down to an abandoned hotel where Nancy may be hiding. The demon is seen snatching a prostitute in the alley of the hotel, he then watches Jake and Sarah enter the building and then lies beside the unconscious prostitute and begins licking her. Inside the hotel Jake and Sarah come across a naked and dying man, he speaks of Nancy who is responsible for his condition and falls back into unconsciousness as Jake and Sarah continue deeper into the hotel now knowing that they are on the right trail. The next scene brings take place at a hotel room where the demon and his succubus are talking about the half breed (Jake) and Sarah. The succubus points out that the demon has become infatuated with Sarah because of her innocence. The succubus wishes to have Jake; she believes he will be a powerful ally. The demon tells her he is too dangerous and that he is to be destroyed. However, the succubus eventually persuades the demon to allow her to have him to enslave his soul and control him. As Jake and Sarah walk the halls of the hotel they come across rooms with various couples having sex. Jake determines the demon they are looking for is Asmodeus, the demon of lust. His power is what draws the prostitutes to the hotel, so he must be somewhere inside.
Jake and Sarah come across Nancy and, after a brief scuffle, Nancy runs off. Jake tells Sarah to wait in the hallway and he goes after Nancy. While searching one of the rooms Jake is confronted by the succubus who attempts to seduce him while Asmodeus shows up in the hallway where Sarah is waiting. Asmodeus once again calls for Sarah to follow him. She does but with her weapons ready for use against him. Sarah is assaulted in the hallway by Nancy, but uses her cross to burn Nancy and she then flees with Sarah chasing after her. Jake is seen rolling on the floor and kissing the succubus, which brings him closer to his cross and distracts the succubus enough for him to grab the weapon and kill her. Nancy is found by Sarah and after Nancy attempts to pounce Sarah shoots her with a gun in an attempt to slow her down to kill her but Asmodeus appears to Sarah following the shots which were also heard by Jake. Sarah shoots at Asmodeus but the bullets do nothing to him and the gun runs out of bullets. Asmodeus knocks Sarah out just before Jake shows up. Jake and Asmodeus fight. Jakes loses but Asmodeus does not kill him - claiming it doesn't matter to him whether Jakes lives or dies because in the end his soul will belong to him.
Jake awakes in the morning to find Sarah gone. He steals a motorcycle after breaking the arm of the biker. He rides back to the cemetery where Asmodeus seduces his other victims, and where he has brought Sarah. While Asmodeus begins to have sex with Sarah she transforms into a demon and kills him. Jake hears the growls of a demon and rushes into the crypt to see Sarah, as a demon, devouring the heart of Asmodeus. Sarah explains to Jake that he is not the only half breed to have been born and to have his dark side restricted by the church. Jake and Sarah fight after she refuses to play for the side of God any longer and is unable to convince Jake to do the same. Jake strangles Sarah and then walks out of the crypt seeming to be genuinely distraught over having to kill her. Jake goes to the church and confronts the Cardinal, angry and demanding why he wasn't told that Sarah was a half breed. He tells Jake that it was best if no one knew and that Sarah didn't know herself and while they had hoped Jake would kill the demon before he could get to Sarah, which they knew would bring out the demon in her, it wasn't a terrible loss that she is now dead. The movie ends with seeing the prostitute Asmodeus had snatched in the alley of the hotel now possessed with his child and then the camera pans up to see Jake dropping down from a fire escape to kill the prostitute.

Tags: good versus evil, violence, murder

Review:
I am normally quite easy to please when it comes to Sci-Fi and paranormal movies, if the story is good.
The beginning of the movie is actually good, and has a new approach, but after those 5-10 minutes it is down hill.
If you like exorcist movies you get very disappointed, but if you have absolutely nothing to do and want to see Demons possessing people, some bare skin, and the church's weird way of dealing with Demons then go for it..
Demon Hunter is a lower budget film that its brother Constantine.
Reminiscent to the feel of Terminator (staring Arnold Schwarzenegger).Demon Hunter's story line works.
Demon Hunter has a good pace and never drags.
If you like this type of flick, watching Demon Hunter is good time well spent..
As low budget horror movies with demons and hunters, this one was pretty good.
Sean Patrick Flannery is a half breed and Billy Drago is evil (wow, what a surprise :) ).
Evil is as evil does, but Mr Drago, at his 57 years and 86 appearances, still gets to be surrounded by lustful naked women and to lick the skin of helpless girls.The basic story is pretty cliché, with things added up from different stories of the genre: half-demon demon hunter works for the Church.
Beats Blade on story and acting, but it is low budget, so no special effects..
Jake Greyman is a demon hunter, a sort of supernatural cleaner, the guy who takes over when the exorcism fails.
Jake teams up with the unorthodox sister Sara and the two learn that the Demon of Lust, Asmodeus, is doing his horny best to impregnate as many hot young girls as he can in order to produce a race of half breed beings who will destroy us all.
Sean Patrick Flannery, quite a good actor, does his best here with a corny script and a limp storyline.
Drago, a great but seriously underrated actor who almost always plays scummy bad guys, is excellent as the fanged and sleazy demon, surrounded by half naked girls and smiling like an alligator.
The fight scene between Drago and Flannery is well choreographed and is a lot of fun to watch.
The special effects are rather lame and the soundtrack is bloody awful, sounding like a bad 80s hair band reunion, but there are enough good and energetic performances in this film to make it halfway decent and raise it slightly above the level of most other direct-to-video crap.
does show that, however it was a lot better than i expected and i'm happy about that because I like Shaun Patrick Flannery.The dialogue at points in the movie was a little hammy and the director used the same stock shot several times (although this may have been to save money) but in general the story line was pretty good and the acting was OK.This may not be for everyone and draws a lot of comparisons with Constantine (which i also enjoyed) so if you liked that you may like this.I suppose my final comments would be that its a very average movie but it did entertain me for an hour and a half and for a movie based on a video game it was a lot better than any other i have seen lately especially any Uwe Boll movie..
Amongst pretty good performances by the entire cast, Billy Drago is convincingly sleazy as the head demon.
This film is hardly challenging, but what did you expect from a movie named "Demon Hunter"?
The production values are way above your average low-budget crap horror movie and there was an attempt to craft an interesting plot.
I thought the movie was good, but I really think that it would be a good TV series like Angel, Buffy, and Charmed.
Jake (Sean Patrick Flanery), a half-breed demon hunter, struggling with the side he has chosen with the war between heaven and hell.
Finds himself facing off against an 'unbound' fallen angel, played by Billy Drago, who seeks to spread his "demon seed" upon the Earth.After watching this movie, I cannot see why others are comparing it to Constantine.
Doing so would be like comparing Vampire Hunter D and Van Helsing, they have similar roots but take things from different perspectives.I took this movie at face value and went from there; it is a low budget film with cheesy effects, some gaping holes in the plot, and almost funny fight scenes.
But when you look at how many other movies out there have similar story lines, you can see why it would be so hard to stand out in this genre.All in all, it's not a bad "rainy day" type flick; ranks up there with a series pilot that never took off...or like someone posted before, a B-level movie..
The fact that the lead character had an internal conflict that actually played out in the overall story gives it more depth than just about everything else being cranked out in the horror genre nowadays.
Its not perfect, but its pretty well put together for a low budget film.The one thing about it is, it's more like a supernatural thriller than a horror movie.
The movie starts pretty good.
There's a lot of sensuality, hot women (mainly because of the succubus), but little action and horror related scenes.
After resolving a situation of exorcism, the half-breed demon hunter Jake Greyman (Sean Patrick Flanery) reports to Cardinal White (William Bassett) and they realize that the demon Asmodeus (Billy Drago) is impregnating many mortals trying to raise offspring.
Cardinal White calls Sister Sarah Ryan (Colleen Porch) to assist Jake in his hunting for Asmodeus and his spawned women.
Meanwhile, Asmodeus sends the delicious and sexy Succubus (Tania Deighton) to seduce Jake.A battle between good and evil is in course."Demon Hunter" is an entertaining rip off of Constantine in the environment of Buffy and Angel.
The demons have fangs like vampires, and the face of the surprising last monster is very similar to those in Buffy and Angel.
I saw it with very low expectation, and I surprisingly liked "Demon Hunter".
Plot is also very thin, this film goes from A to B to C to D to E and in that order there is a small surprise element but was more a surprisingly absurd rather then anything else.Music was OK.This Story reminded me somewhat of Constantine and Sean Patrick Flanery is in Keanu's role.
Demon Hunter is a goofy, low-budget flick that wouldn't look out-of-place as a "movie of the week" on the Sci-Fi Channel.
Sean Patrick Flanery (Into the Fire, Kiss the Bride, Simply Irresistible) does a credible job as the demon hunter in a kind of Blade/Constantine remake.
He the church's Michael Clayton, who comes in to fix messes when exorcisms go wrong.He is helped by Colleen Porch (All In, Transformers, I Know Who Killed Me), a nun (who kinda looks like Angelina Jolie) who is definitely not cut out for this work.He is fighting one of the evilest looking characters in the movies, Billy Drago (The Hills Have Eyes (2006), Mysterious Skin, The Untouchables), who is trying to create some evil spawn.
He is assisted by a knockout, Tania Deighton (Something's Gotta Give), who needs to be in a lot more movies.Lots of skin and some good fighting, but no FX.
BLADE meets "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"  BILLY DRAGO stars as a half human/half demon who fights to save the world from a vicious demon bent on forcing possessed women to bear its children.Yawn, it's not exactly the most original type of movie and it easily tries to emulate the styles of recent fanatical television series.
It's filled with boring modern rock music, poor dialogue and uninteresting fight scenes which may have just been borderline passable if it were an actual TV series but this movie just didn't move at a good pace.The opening scene whilst not being fantastic may shine some light of hope in your eyes but from then on in you should only stay for the boobs because that's the only thing that caught my eye.
To no avail, Demon Hunter becomes very boring, very quickly.Too much talking, too much walking.
It's hard to review this movie because I don't watch many television series, if any at all.Hence, I can't take much more of this..
Comparisons with CONSTANTINE (2005) are also off based even though both movies were released the same year and dealt with demons, angels and such, CONSTANTINE maintained its rich and consistent characterization and a rather more convoluted and deeper plot.
DEMON HUNTER with its relatively straight forward script with rather consistent editing, a basic storyline couldn't be considered a bad movie, it just wasn't a great movie.
One of the few entertaining ideas is that there's some interesting changes around the possession angle, as rather than getting a traditional version where one is possessed throughout the film only to get it exorcised at the end, this one decides instead to give several demonic figures that are actively possessing several individuals throughout the film, and that gives it a little extra that might be otherwise ignored as in excluding the tired exorcism scene.
This here also has some pretty good action scenes in its' two really big martial arts fight scenes, which are both above-average for the style.
The plot, the conversation and all characters lacked imagination and intelligence.If you are a fan of Blade and the TV-show Angel, this movie might be to your liking.
Jake Greyman(Sean Patrick Flanery)is a "half-breed", a hellspawn born from a mortal whose father was a demon, one of the devil's angels.
Jake has a rather bleak view of mankind, yet, despite not be loved by God, works for the Cardinal of a Catholic Church, hunting down the possessed and killing the host bodies if priests are unable to exorcise the demons.
Billy Drago(..relishing this role)is the Demon of Lust, Asmodeus, and he plans to spread his seed, creating an army of half-breeds to do his will, by devouring the souls of hookers and "women of the street" on the seedy side of downtown LA, and the Red Light District.
Colleen Porch is Sister Sarah, a nun who developed very well in the convent, is assigned to partner with Jake as they pursue Asmodeus.
As Jake, Flannery remains solemn throughout, a man whose life doesn't amount to much, except what he's skilled at, removing anyone or thing that threatens his goals to take out demons possessing humans.
Nancy Yooin is Nancy in the film, a prostitute who married a 90 year old millionaire and is the last on a list of girls to be possessed and planted with a demon seed after Asmodeus seduces her with overwhelming ecstasy.
I guess one could call Demon Hunter a poor man's Constantine, because this was shot on a much smaller scale considering it's overly ambitious plot..
But this was actually not a bad little film.
A Fallen Angel/Demon, Asmodeus (Billy Drago), wants to fornicate with pretty girls and impregnate them with his..."devil spawn".
They send over GQ coverboy Jacob Greyman (Sean Patrick Flanery), Demon Hunter; and Sister Sarah Ryan (Colleen Porch), the shapely nun who must have found God off the fashion runways of New York.
They set out to save LA by taking off their clothes (love the lacy underwear worn by nuns), and getting into the line of...Demon Fire.Somehow, this isn't a porno film.
He lets the audience know that he has been saving Sister Sarah for just such a missionas if she were the new Demon Fighter, Jason-a Bourne - complete with designer dresses, pumps and layered haircuts.In the meantime, Jacob is hanging around with Asmodeus' demon hitwoman (Tania Deighton) who wants Greyman's..."dark soul" as a trophy.
Anyway, she spends half the movie making out with him...and exchanging horns, or something.There is a lot of primping and posing and demon faces in this movie.
Demon Hunter is set in modern day Los Angeles where half demon half man Jake Greyman (Sean Patrick Flanery) has an ugly job, he works for the Catholic church as a demon hunter who uses his powers to rid the streets of various unpleasant demons.
His latest mission is a young girl & ex-prostitute named Maria (Lea Moreno Young) who happens to be pregnant with evil Vampire demon thing Asmodeus' (Billy Drago) baby, Jake takes care of her in his own unique way.
Reporting back to his boss Cardinal White (William Bassett) it seems this isn't an isolated incident & Asmodeus wants to spread his 'seed' throughout the world beginning with impregnating some Los Angeles prostitutes, hey it's a start isn't it?
However Asmodeus hasn't figured on demon killer Jake & his partner Sister Sarah Ryan (Colleen Porch) who are out to find him & stop him...Directed by Scott Ziehl there simply isn't any nice way by which I can describe Demon Hunter so I won't even try, it is complete total & utter crap & it's as simple & straight forward as that.
I'm not sure quite who the script by Mitch Gould is aimed at or what sort of film this is supposed to be, large portions of this lame film is taken up with really bad philosophical dialogue between Jake & his new partner Sister Sarah.
You see when it comes down to it Demon Hunter is basically a mismatched partner film, you know what I mean a sort of good cop bad cop scenario, in fact I kept thinking of Lethal Weapon (1987) as Jake is obviously the tough uncompromising one while Sister Sarah is the moralistic one & by the end of the film he's lightened up a bit & she has no problem shooting people.
Far too much screen time is given to this really badly written relationship & the two cardboard cutout character's involved in it, listen guys this isn't rocket science here as all we, the viewer that is, want to see is lots of fights, some nudity, some good looking chicks in leather outfits & some decent horror.
To add to Demon Hunter's problems it's incredibly slow, there is one fight during the opening sequence but then you have to wait until the film reaches the 40 minute mark before the next & then after that there isn't another fight until the end.
There's no horror or exploitation worth mentioning & quite how the filmmakers managed to screw a half decent Blade (1998) type idea up this badly is beyond me.Director Ziehl does a reasonable job actually, it's got some nice photography & the odd stylish scene.
Unfortunately the film is still awful, the action scenes are poor (see Blade to see how it's done properly), there's no gore (again see Blade to see how it's done), the special effects are poor (see Blade to see how it's done properly), the main villain is terrible is neither scary nor menacing & doesn't do a thing except spout a load of nonsense (see Blade to see how it's done properly) although on a positive note his female sidekick looks quite foxy.
In terms of gore there is one scene where someone gets a stake through their chest & there's one dead body & that's it.With a supposed budget of about $1,000,000 I suppose the poor effects & lacklustre action scenes can be blamed on a low budget but that still doesn't excuse the film for being so dull, boring & downright awful.
The acting isn't up to much although it's nice to see Billy Drago in something even if having him in a The Matrix (1999) style kung-fu fight is stretching it a bit.
Is it just me or is Porch a dead ringer for Angelina Jolie?Demon Hunter is a low budget piece of action/horror Blade rip-off crap that lacks any action or horror, not a film to get excited about.
The costumes and "special" makeup, In my opinion seemed easy to recreate as though for a weekly show.Examples: The main bad hotty: stick-on horns and vampire fangs, little leather outfit.The main bad guy: vampire fangs, leather jacket.The main good guy: glowing eyes, occasionally.The main good hotty: nothing until SHE turned bad, then two finger demon hands and ugly face like the vampires on "Buffy".It's not going to win any awards, although it's better than many of the so called theatrical releases I've seen lately.
The backstory is nothing new, but interesting: a demon half breed works for the church by killing possessed people that cannot be exorcised.
When a very strong demon targets young women to create an army of half breeds (by impregnating them), the demon hunter is paired with a nun to stop this.The hunter is played by a very cool and super hot Sean Patrick Flanery, who convincingly plays a conflicted character and has some nice lines.
Unfortunately that is the only thing that makes this film worth watching at all.Unless you like cheesy soft porn scenes which distract from the story.The demons are pathetic with their fangs and fake horns.
The Sleazy Uber-Demon does not come across as very threatening.The fight scenes could have been good - after all, SPF is a martial artist - but they're always blurred, shaken up or shown only half.Some of the girls are hot but completely over-acting.
The succubus would have been nice if not for the very stupid horns and wings.It had the potential for a good movie - or even TV show pilot - but unfortunately it simply wasn't done well..
Rough'n'tumble half-breed holy a**kicker demon hunter Jake Greyman (a superbly rugged portrayal by Sean Patrick Flanery of "The Boondock Saints") fights various forms of evil for the Catholic Church.
He's assigned by Cardinal White (nicely played by William Bassett) to stop nefarious lustful hell spawn Asmodeus (a marvelously creepy and reptilian Billy Drago) and his loyal servant Succubus (gorgeous brunette knockout Tania Deighton, who sports cute little horns) from procreating with fallen Los Angeles prostitutes.