Demise

You'll be on the edge of your seat watching this one! So many twists and turns! Just when you think the film cannot get any more intense, Yara Estrada Lowe pulls you in an entirely new direction. She is certainly an upcoming creative to be reckoned with in the film industry. The talent in Demise delivers extraordinary effort and leaves you wanting more. The pacing of the film is just the right speed to keep you wondering what will happen next. With such a promising directorial debut, Yara Estrada Lowe proves that she is here to stay. Denise is an experience that you need to be a part of. Check it out now!

This is a really solid film, honestly so great for a girls night. You guys will be shoooook. Definitely give it a watch! I watched it with my friends, and we honestly were like yelling in shock at every turn. Wish I could go back and watch it again for the first time. So much fun, and everyone should get their girls together to watch this. You will thank me later lol! Hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Please tell me that I'm not the only one who was absolutely shook by this. Everyone should at least give it a watch and see what they think. Let me know if you enjoyed as much as I did lolllll.

Great film! Sexy, hilarious, twisted, and jaw dropping. I loved how the characters were believable, realistic, and even relatable Angelenos vs. Botoxed-out and expressionless. More of the European style in that regard. Fun to see all the cameos. I've recommended it to several friends. I don't watch a while lot of TV and most of the films watch are historical epics or documentaries. Or what my kids are watching. I truly enjoyed watching Demise.

Looking forward to finding out how Celine's character develops and what transpires between the new character. Would love to see Caleb show a little more Latino cultural values that are typical in these types of men in LA.

Film, movies, cinema, Hollywood, the dream factory. The whole business has come to a pretty pass when B-movie dross like DEMISE can get itself reviewed in a national newspaper. Disney's atrocious Snow White reboot having failed so spectacularly a Jason Statham actioner outlasted it at the box office, and with Mine Craft being excoriated as we speak, is it any wonder any thing, any little thing that seems remotely related to people and their problems can get industry attention. Even amateurish junk like this.

DEMISE begins with the sound of sexy time, lady's heels scattered on the carpet, man's shoes sat neatly side-by-side. We then see the lady riding high with her undies still on. Admittedly we are talking classy lingerie, but still, one senses we're in Hollywood prudish infantilisation territory. Subsequent clinches don't become any more explicit, nor realistic.

The opening titles wouldn't look wholly out of place on a James Bond movie, if Bond was no longer a spy and merely a gigolo. (Who knows, maybe that's where the franchise will go in the future. Double-Oh Demise, perhaps?) Later we get generic Spanish guitar during one quickie (17 secs, in real time), and generic videogame music, Super Mario maybe, around the 45 minute mark. The music, like the editing, like the dialogue, is a muddle. And what dialogue!

• Wow. Tonight was such fun. I think we needed that.

• I had SO MUCH fun.

Who talks like that with their wife, after dinner and nookie? Do people have 'date nights' when they're still childless? From the first words one senses that Demise is not predicated on life experiences but on genre recognition. The dialogue sounds like it could have been written by, you guessed it, AI.

• Fiona! Look, I know you think you're getting the short end of the stick here.

• You're right. I AM getting the short end of the stick.

(The short end of the stick?) Demise has been compared in the press to 1990s era skin flicks, bonkbusters, T&A movies, only now we have to cope with computer-generated dialogue and what could be intimacy-coordinator-coordinated sex scenes. Even movies like Animal Instincts had better dialogue than Demise.

• Well don't worry, I didn't f*** him in my new dress.

• You BETTER not have.

• I took it off first.

• OOh! I probably deserved that.

(Was that meant to be a witty scolding?) You get the point. I'll have to presume the writer/director is a breather and not a bot, and let's face it, plenty of Hollywood 'content' is based not upon observation of lived experience but rather upon genre pictures, brand recognition. Just as AI works by recycling what's already out there, so can real life human beings, possessing more ambition than talent.

DEMISE deserves to be studied in film schools. Much can be learned from such fare.

Demise is a movie that makes you uncomfortable in a good way. I found it compelling, shocking and a well oiled emotional train wreck you can't look away from. I found the acting fantastic, especially that of Liz Fenning, the actress who played Celine. I was invested in the story from beginning till end and found this not so typical complicated love story to be sexy, edgy and realistic. Demise is not your average cookie cutter romantic thriller and that's what sets it apart and makes it good. I thought direction was great, the cast, music. All of which bundled together in superb editing makes "Demise" a psychological rollercoaster that is unforgettable.