Demon Keeper

Demon Keeper is a 1994 American horror film directed by Joe Tornatore for New Horizon Pictures. It was shot in Zimbabwe.^[1]

Demon Keeper
Directed by	Joe Tornatore
Written by	Mike Angel
Produced by	Cheryl Latimer John Marshall Joe Tornatore Executive Maurice Smith Roger Corman
Starring	Dirk Benedict
Production company	The Pacific Trust
Distributed by	New Horizons Video
Release date	May 1994 (1994-05) (video)
Running time	72 minutes
Country	USA
Language	English

Premise

A fake medium conjures up an angry demon.

Cast

• Dirk Benedict as Alexander Harris
• Edward Albert as Remy Grilland
• Mike Lane
• André Jacobs
• Adrienne Pearce
• David Sherwood
• Jennifer Steyn
• Claire Marshall
• Diane Nuttall
• Elsa Martin

Production

The original cut of the film was felt to be not scary enough so at the behest of Roger Corman additional scenes were shot using a demon. According to Imagi Movies "The addition is laughably obvious, for two reasons: first the demon never appears ‘on the sets where the original footage was shot; second, the new scenes were done on video tape and run through the “film-look” process, with less than good results."^[2]

Reception

Senseless Pictures called it "small but underrated."^[3]

Psychotronic Video said "Attention fans of Grotesque. Tomatore is back with more inept but entertaining nonsense."^[1]

The Roanoke Times called it "fun if you're on the mood for a really bad movie. Otherwise forget it."^[4] In a review for the Orlando Sentinel, Joe Bob Briggs wrote "not since Plan 9 from Outer Space have this many earnest authors been this sincerely awful."^[5]