Demon Wind (1990)

I can't quite go so far as to peg "Demon Wind" as a terrible movie, but it's definitely close to one. It's just a real disjointed - albeit, seemingly ambitious - "Evil Dead" knock-off that gets way too wrapped up in it's over-explained plot and poor pacing...

A group of young friends head up to the family farm of one of them who has been having bad dreams about the place and his family history and wants to know what killed his grandparents there, years ago. They find that the place was burned down, but still acts as a sort of 'portal' to a demonic spirit world where they become trapped and dogged by mobs of creatures.

The biggest problem I had with "Demon Wind" was the over-abundance of back story exposition that eats up a good portion of about the first two-thirds of the movie. It's really slow up until almost an hour in, then we start getting some gooey-faced demons which works, but never really takes the movie into any kind of exceedingly 'exciting' or interesting territory. It just becomes a "Night of the Living Dead" rehash, mixed with some "Evil Dead" and finishes off with a totally random, nonsensical, slapped-on ending. On the plus side, the make-up effects are pretty good. Not the worst flick, but far from anything you should go out of your way to try to hunt down...