10/01/2003 Entry: "New Article: "My Demon Lover" Movie Review!"

Woo hoo, a movie review! It's not the one I planned, but hey, it fits in with the start of today's hot new month. My Demon Lover, from 1987, puts Nick from "Family Ties" in the unenviable position of turning into the Devil whenever he gets a hard-on. A whole ninety minutes of it, too. You'll fall in love all over again. Grab your chips or whatever it is you do when reading something long, because this one's close to 4,000 words, and best of all, they're all really long words. The short review: it's an incredibly dumb movie and I don't think many would see any charm to it, but I'm easily amused and have nothing but the utmost apathy towards Scott Valentine, so it seemed perfectly watchable to me. Worth a look.

Also, the Countdown's been updated with a look at Bubble Tape's new spooky black raspberry gum. Six feet's worth of it! It's six feet of Bubble Tape -- for you, not them. Doing. I think I'm doing a reader mail post in a little while, so check the bloggy in a little while if you're bored or frightened. Be well to your elders. Add blueberries to pancakes. Buy that for a dollar.

Chestnuts roasted by jjgoreha @ 10/01/2003 12:18 PM EST

i loved this movie when i was younger. i used to rent it all the time with my sister. i had no idea... until right... that the reason he turned into a demon was because he got a hard on! i just thought it was because he liked a girl... ahh innocence of youth. shows u how long ago i saw it!
used to love nick on family ties too... MALLORY!
thanx matt for this review! loved it.

Chestnuts roasted by jessica_76 @ 10/01/2003 12:27 PM EST

I've been dupped too! Only 4'11" worth of gum :'( I remember the old bubble tape ads that said "for you not them." Someone should measure a Fruit-by-the-Foot to see if that is really 3 ft worth of fruit roll goodness.

Chestnuts roasted by pikachulover @ 10/01/2003 12:31 PM EST

The disturbing news that bubble tape comes up short has me far more sad than I probably should be.

Chestnuts roasted by Vinz Klortho @ 10/01/2003 02:08 PM EST

Wow, I was relieved somebody else had seen this film. My parents actually took me see this in the theatres!

This would make a great double feature with Mark "Skippy" Price's horror film debut "Trick or Treat" ( you also not only get to see HIS pubes in that one, but full frontal Skippy nudity)

Believe it or not I actually own the soundtrack to "My Demon Lover" on vinyl, I got it for about 10 bucks in London of all places.

Chestnuts roasted by Agentsusp@aol.com @ 10/01/2003 02:28 PM EST

ok, agentsusp beat me to the Trick or Treat reference, which I rented pretty recently, and I don't remember the skippy dong... but I mighta just removed it from my memory.

"the give that to me" scooby reference was hilarious

Chestnuts roasted by Chad @ 10/01/2003 02:38 PM EST

Man, it may be only 4'11, but damn if it doesn't look like it goes on forever in that one shot. Nice camera skillz, Matt.

Chestnuts roasted by Evin @ 10/01/2003 02:56 PM EST

Argh, I just can't help but wonder the emotional states of the characters in this movie--but why do I even care?! So Sophia has sex with demon Kaz but Denny doesn't think that makes Kaz a two-timing bastard?!

All I remember about Family Ties Nick was how the family was so shocked that he had an ear-ring and in those days it was such a controversial thing. It would be interesting today to introduce phallic piercing in family sitcoms.

Chestnuts roasted by inkmage @ 10/01/2003 03:08 PM EST

I've been gone for quiiiiite a while now. But I am back. Here's a halloween K.E.N.N.E.F (Kind of Neat New Enthusiastic Fact):

The christian thrift store has a halloween section. A halloween section...at a CHRISTIAN thrift store. How's that for ironic my lil' pumkin heads?

Chestnuts roasted by kennef @ 10/01/2003 03:48 PM EST

whoops...forgot an E. Kind of entertaining nearly new enthusastic fact. Sorry pumkin heads :)

Chestnuts roasted by kennef @ 10/01/2003 03:50 PM EST

Check out the rerun of Conan O'Brien this evening or tomorrow afternoon on Comedy Central. According to this post he shows a clip of the live-action He-Man and goofs on it and a member of the audience who tells him what it is about:
http://www.he-man.org/forums/boards/showthread.php?s=e981ead97e2ed14c119eb538bf01423a&threadid=68191

Chestnuts roasted by She-Man @ 10/01/2003 03:52 PM EST

I just found out something about Scott Valentine that is even scarier than Demon Lover. He was also (so I understand) in Carnosaur 3! How bad can a career be when starring in the third installment of the dumbest series ever is your second claim to fame after "the guy on Family Ties that grunted and liked Mallory".

What is Justine Batemen (sp?) up to these days? Someown here probably knows. Did she turn into a cable "erotica" star? Or a Hallmark movie star? Or is "star" too strong a word?

Chestnuts roasted by Sean @ 10/01/2003 05:39 PM EST

What's wrong with the Carnosaur series? Sure they're straight to video B-flicks, but they're actually a lot of fun if you like to MST3K bad movies. The second in the series is probably the most fun because it's a scene for scene remake of aliens but with dinosaurs. I swear, scene-for-scene. When the two guys are cornered by aliens at the end, what do they do? Why huddle together and detonate a grenade. When someone tries to take off in a helicopter, what happens? Why there's a monster behind them who attacks, eventually destroying the chopper. When it comes to the climax, what happens? A really giant mother dinosaur appears and the hero battles it by piloting some construction equipment. The gore, though, is excellent. I'll never forget the disembowelment by raptor from part 2, followed by said victim vomiting black bile. Excellent stuff. I'll go back into hiding now.

Chestnuts roasted by inkmage @ 10/01/2003 07:10 PM EST

How could I have forgotten? Yet I did. Back in about '88 my parents stopped getting cable and the VCR was my best friend. My Demon Lover got rented more than a few times.
I would love to hear your take on another of my 'rented too much' favorites: 'Dolls'

Chestnuts roasted by Grego @ 10/01/2003 07:11 PM EST

Hey, kennef

I never thought about it before, but my Christian thrift store had a Halloween section, too.
There's also a used negligee section.
Bwah chicka bwah bwah...
Sexy Christian do-gooders, yeah, baby.

Chestnuts roasted by trajeal @ 10/01/2003 08:49 PM EST

First of all, Grego, I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who's family went without cable for years at a time (I still don't have it). My parents have almost two walls worth of videos in the den to prove it.

As to "My Demon Lover," I put it in the same weird-teen-80s-fantasy-comedy category as "My Best Friend is a Vampire," but not quite as good. I haven't seen either (though I may try "Vampire"), but they certainly look...interesting. Very interesting.

Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 10/01/2003 09:43 PM EST

this movie is unbelievable!!!

Chestnuts roasted by k.jb jhvj @ 10/01/2003 09:53 PM EST

I love "My demon lover". It is hilarious. :D

Chestnuts roasted by GJ @ 10/01/2003 10:09 PM EST

hey rizz don't forget about buttons mcboom boom on COPS he was the best cuz his name was retarded. Miss Demeanor ha thats punny.

Chestnuts roasted by the venom googer @ 10/02/2003 01:01 AM EST

I thought it was Ms Demeanor. She was a modern woman.

Chestnuts roasted by marioshoku @ 10/02/2003 02:42 AM EST

I went to Jr. Highschool with the Kid who played young Valentine. Kid acted like he was hot shit. It was the last movie he was in. I hope not. It would make me feel bad about not seeing it...

Chestnuts roasted by RonEdens @ 10/02/2003 04:00 AM EST

Inkimage

It's just something about those movies that bugs me. Normally I like those terrible films (Zardoz, anyone?), but when you can see a guys hand in an attack scene, it's just too much. Go here and play the video link http://www.badmovies.org/movies/carnosaur/index.html

On the other hand, the stories are no worse than any Spielberg or Disney dinosaur film. And at least they have screaming girls (notice females never die in Jurassic Park?)

The worst offense, though, is giving Scott Valentine's career hope. Why taunt him?

Chestnuts roasted by Sean @ 10/02/2003 01:51 PM EST

For some strange reason, I have yet another shitty film stuck in my head. It's a good shitty film, but still shitty. It stars a popular 80's rock star, a chick who starred in a film with the green giant of comic books, and some weird creatures. Can you guess what it is?

Chestnuts roasted by Nate @ 10/02/2003 03:00 PM EST

Labyrinth?

Chestnuts roasted by A Dingo Ate My Baby @ 10/02/2003 03:24 PM EST

While I could be a lazy cheapass and check IMDB, I'm just gonna say "Labyrinth" too.

Chestnuts roasted by "MR. GAME & WATCH" @ 10/02/2003 06:24 PM EST

Thanks for that link Sean; I hadn't seen that site before. See, I didn't mind seeing the guy's hand pulling the woman's leg. What made the whole thing worthwhile was the gore. Cheap horror movies that skimp on gore is like--well it's something. Even if the gore is so fake, I still don't care one bit, it just makes it more loveable. Case in point: Terror Firmer.

Chestnuts roasted by inkmage @ 10/02/2003 09:39 PM EST

Very good Dingo and Mr. G&W. You win the shitty movie trivia contest. What do you win? The opportunity to look like a jackass (sorry, I'm just being an asshole).

Chestnuts roasted by Nate @ 10/03/2003 04:48 PM EST

Cool. Well...I guess not. Someone had to review a movie with that plot. I guess thats what I should've expected and kinda did. Eh, it couldn't be much better.

Chestnuts roasted by Terd @ 10/05/2003 12:57 AM EST

holy god, I'm laughing so hard that I'm crying. I think I saw this movie a good 10 times on cable when I was younger...why, I cannot explain.

Chestnuts roasted by Bawb @ 10/10/2003 04:09 PM EST

I never realised that it was an erection that set him off. I will always remember that line about "Where'd you put the Frito's" and the knuckle crack, though -- I am cursed with that. Everytime I hear/see someone cracking their knuckles, I think of that damned movie.

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