The Children's Film Unit was a British film production unit which gave youngsters the opportunity to make movies, participating both in front of and behind the camera. Daemon is their attempt at making a spooky movie, but the result is, as one might expect, amateurish, delivering little in the way of atmosphere or chills.
Arnaud Morell stars as Nick, who is struggling to adjust to a new home and school when he suddenly begins to act strangely and develops blisters and sores. Believing the new kid to be possessed by a demon, his classmates decide to stake Nick through the heart!
Featuring a cast of kids who would've failed auditions for their school play, the acting is extremely poor, but most of the blame must surely rest on the shoulders of an adult: writer and director Colin Finbow, whose weak script is extremely derivative, initially seemingly inspired by Satanic horrors such as The Omen and the Exorcist before going down a well-trodden ghost story route instead. The dialogue is atrocious, and, coupled with the poor performances, the film is hard to sit through.
Susannah York, a patron of the Children's Film Unit, appears as child psychologist Rachel, who attempts to help Nick with his problems; she's the only good thing about the film.
2.5/10, rounded down to 2 for Nick's irritating sisters in the silly coloured afro wigs.
