BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

Boobirt Stylish but barely mediocre overall

Nonureva Really Surprised!

TaryBiggBall It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

preppy-3 It's about a small Massachusetts town called Ludlow (population 41). It seems ages ago an evil warlock terrorized the town. He was executed and (somehow) his evil spirit was put in a white piano that was sent away. It comes back ages later and the evil warlock sends out demons to kill the descendants of the people who murdered him. The plot is kind of vague but so is the movie.A no-budget mess. The plot is OK and has a somewhat eerie atmosphere but atrocious acting (Paul von Hauson is beyond belief) and dime store special effects destroy this one. The gore scenes are plentiful but simply laughable. They're so obviously faked you can't take them seriously. It's kind of sad because there is some good acting (Stephanie Cushna was excellent) and it was short (only 84 minutes). The direction isn't too bad either. Still this can safely be skipped. Unrated but it would definitely get an R for all the gore.

Bezenby I know it's not saying much, but so far this is my favourite Bill Rebane film (out of the four or five I've watched). It's low budget, sure, but Rebane fills Demons of Ludlow with loads of weirdness and a few creepy scenes, adds in a dollop of Wisconsin cheese, and just goes for the scares.It's a very Stephen King like plot too. A New England town receives a gift of an antique piano from the relatives of its founding father, and immediately things begin to get weird. Objects move of there own accord, a ghost girl appears randomly everywhere, and people from the past are seemingly stepping back into the present. It's up to a visiting journalist (and once resident) and the local priest to sort things out.Although the budget is extremely low, Rebane's no fool. He throws in as many scares as possible, what with the moving objects, ghost demons, surreal, crying and laughing toys, a demonic hand pulling folks into another dimension, and even a bit of good for good measure (a decapitation and amputation). It got a sense of that playfulness of his other films, but it's more like an outright horror. I was hooked from start to finish.I've heard Blood Harvest is his best film, but haven't had a sniff of that. Other Rebane films are the ultra-cheesy (and great!) Giant Spider Invasion, the weird but fun The Cold (aka The Game), the so-so but still watchable Twister's Revenge. I've also got a copy of The Alpha Incident, but it refuses to work.Nice one - I'm a fan of your work Bill.

mlevans Although the first one/third is a little slow, 'The Demons of Ludlow' winds up being a surprisingly decent little B horror flick.The premise is very good, with a 200-year-old New England town in which the history has mysteriously disappeared and those who know about it refuse to talk. A pair of apparent siblings, supposedly on some sort of journalistic assignment are in town, checking into its history, when a historic piano, belonging to the town's founder, is returned to the town by the founders' ancestors. As soon as the apparently generous gift is received, locals begin dying grizzly deaths.There are a few plot holes and one gets a bit tired of the preacher's alcoholic wife constantly calling, "Chris, is that YOU?" The DVD I have (part of a collection of 50 B thrillers) is a bit dark and in a few cases it is hard to tell one female from another – not to mention one figure running through the snow in the distance from another. Plus, about the second and third/eighths of the film seems to bog down a little, and the colonial ghosts somehow all resemble pirates. Still, it manages to capture a creepy mood that works pretty well. For a 26-year-old low-budget film, it has some pretty good special effects and the unknown cast does decent enough work. Overall, it's one of the better ones I've found so far on this super collection of B and C horror flicks. If you like B horror, this is well worth watching.

Tikkin I was really looking forward to watching this because the VHS box art looks SO 80's. Sadly it was rather dull and I ended up almost falling asleep.It looked promising to start with - it has excellent creepy music, and there's a rather good scene with some demons near the start. After this everything gets confusing, dull and tedious. If there had been more demons and gore, it might have been interesting. Sadly everything is just a jumble. There were a few OK scenes scattered throughout the film, but none were good enough for me to remember in detail.Unless you're a collector, avoid this - you'd be far better off watching something like Demons or even Demon Wind.