Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight (1995)
Directed by Ernest R. Dickerson
Ex-soldier Frank Brayker is the guardian of an ancient key that can unlock tremendous evil; the sinister Collector is a demon who wants the key so he can initiate the apocalypse. On the run from wicked mercenaries for almost 90 years, Brayker finally stops in at a boarding house in New Mexico where — with the help of its residents — he plans to face off against the Collector and his band of ghouls, preventing them from ever seizing the key.
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The artifact containing the Blood of Christ seems to have rolled in from the set of Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight.
It’s too kind to say borrowed-from, so let’s say this film outright bastardizes films like Demon Knight, Beauty and the Beast, Dracula, Silent Hill, A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child, and even The Serpent and the Rainbow.
That being said, The Nun does feature some truly inspired moments of gothic horror, particularly a harrowing sequence involving Farmiga’s character being whipped violently during an attack by Valak, and while I may have uttered the words “Demon Knight” a few times during the movie’s conclusion, I must admit that I applaud The Nun for just full on embracing its Hammer Horror-esque tendencies during the film’s final showdown between good and evil.
The biggest jump scare is a riff on The Exorcist III and the climax climax flogs a major beat from Demon Knight.
There are also aspects of the climax that seem to be derivative of Demon Knight .
Joe Carnahan's own throwback Copshop is considerably better, mainly because it chooses to rip off stuff like Assault on Precinct 13 and Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight --oh, and its vibe is Tango & Cash or The Last Boy Scout : everything I like in a small-environment thriller married to all the bombast of a '90s Shane Black vehicle--and just as inappropriate and ugly as that sounds.
With Us and his stunning 2017 debut, Get Out , Peele encourages his audiences to identify with characters often left out of genre fare, in the tradition of ’90s horror films like The People Under the Stairs , Tales from the Hood , and Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight (all of which are highlighted in the recent Shudder documentary Horror Noire ).
The picture's saving grace is in the performance of its female leads: Nyong'o has the lithe action-hero muscularity of Jada Pinkett in Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight to go with her acting chops, and she creates a complex, three-dimensional pair of characters.