Dementer (2020) Review
Dementer (2020) Review
The film follows Katie (Katie Groshong), a young woman who flees a backwoods cult and takes a job at a care center for special needs adults in her determination to do some good with her life. But despite her best intentions, Katie can’t escape the signs that “the devils” are coming for Stephanie (Stephanie Kinkle), a woman with Down syndrome she cares for, who keeps getting sicker despite Katie’s rituals to ward off evil spirits.
Six years after his feature film JUG FACE debut wowed critics, including this one, writer/director Chad Crawford Kinkle is back with DEMENTER, a film he fashioned with his sister Stephanie in mind, and it kicks off with one of the most unsettling film beginnings for quite some point. It starts with a montage of disturbing images accompanied by a voice-over counting slowly as the film’s discordant score adds that extra layer to ensure that your nerves are left jangling.
Unfortunately that’s pretty much it for DEMENTER, more flashbacks, more voice-overs and what sounds like the same piece of scoring playing over the repetitive action. There’s only so many times that you can hear the same voice growl ‘You are so special, if you only knew’ or ‘the devil will call out for you if you listen’ before the initial mystique developed evaporates into sameness especially when it all becomes too apparent that there’s not much else here to view on the way to a rather predictable finale.
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