Inkubus

Inkubus (2011) is a movie I recently watched on Tubi. The storyline follows the last night a police station is open when a gruesome murder takes place and the man responsible turns himself into the station. Little do they know the killer is the demon Inkubus who can make humans do his bidding. He's about to use the police station for his own personal amusement.

This movie is directed by Glenn Ciano (Infected) in his directorial debut and stars Robert Englund (A Nightmare on Elm Street), William Forsythe (Raising Arizona), Joey Fatone (Bring it On), Jonathan Silverman (Weekend at Bernie's) and Michelle Ray Smith (Salt).

This is only worth watching because Robert Englund is awesome, and he's well used in this. His grand entry was awesome. The opening birth sequence is solid, but the kill scenes are average and the corpses are better than the actual murders. The sex scenes in this definitely could have been better. I will say the cast overall is better in name than execution due to poor writing. The ending does have a nice twist but also could have been better.

This is one of those almost good movies, as in it could have been good but isn't. I would score this a 3/10 but still recommend watching it once.

"You can't pull that trigger, you can't even move. There's nothing you can do about this." While working at a police station on it's last day the few cops that are left begin to question a young teen on his girlfriend's murder. When a stranger walks in holding her severed head the night takes a wicked turn and they wonder if the stranger is an Inkubus out for revenge. This is a movie that will very much appeal to horror fans, and that may be it. The movie is just one step above a movie made for cable TV and if it weren't for the cast it would have been that. I'm not saying that the cast and acting are great but the fact that Freddy Kruger is in this adds a level of creepy that actually helps the movie. The budget is very very low and the film quality is blurry at times. 95% of the movie takes place in a very plain and boring station but that actually helps the movie I think. Overall, not really impressed at all but worth watching for the cast or if you are a huge horror movie fan. I give it a C+.

I felt as though I were watching a student's film project. I like Robert Englund (and William Forsyth). I'm wondering what they were doing in this movie and were they helping someone by being in this movie project. It was a real novice horror film. I can watch almost anything but this was just crazy bad. And very amateurish. And I wondered whether it not this was filmed on someone's iPhone... jes sayin... I will say it was entertaining. And we all know you can watch a bad, yet entertaining film. And Joey Falcons was in it - I forget which boy band he was in but, and God bless him, he should stick to singing/dancing.

"Inkubus" tells the story of a skeleton crew working the final shift at a soon to be demolished police station. The night takes a gruesome turn when the demon, Inkubus (Robert Englund), calmly walks into the station holding the severed head of a murdered girl.

I found this film to be based on an interesting concept; not so much the idea of an incubus who is reborn every hundred years, but of one who actually shows up to confess his crimes, knowing full well there is not much the police can do about it. Another reviewer complained that "nothing happens" in this film, but that is just plain wrong. The film is slow, yes, but not without a plot.

What is the deal with Joey Fatone? This is the second horror film I have seen him in this week (the other being "Jersey Shore Shark Attack"). Is he following the route of the Wahlberg brothers and trying to climb his way up the acting ladder? I will say he was much better here than in "Shark Attack"... and I am still trying to find out how an obnoxious, ugly, overweight man like Fatone was part of a boy band -- and is one of the more successful members after their dissolution.

If you want a movie that will scare you, this is not the movie, unless you're easily scared, or disgusted.

However, this is a nice and calm movie that twists the minds of the characters, something I do like in a horror. As a horror movie it's not high up on the scale, but as a mental game played by the devil, I think it's decent. The beginning was slightly confusing, wasn't sure if it was the past or future, but that was quickly sorted.

I do wish the director spent a little more time working on the personalities of the characters. I didn't feel like I connected with anyone, except maybe Inkubus, and that lack of connection reflected the movie. It's a nice movie to watch if you don't have anything else you want to watch, but it needs a lot of work before I would bother telling others about it.

While I think the director has done a nice job, I do think he has a long way to go.