Demon Hunter: Time 2 Kill (2024) Review

Demon Hunter: Time 2 Kill (2024) Review

Demon slaying badass Taryn Barker is back for more bloody and brutal supernatural action in Demon Hunter: Time 2 Kill – Zoe Kavanagh’s long-awaited sequel to her 2016 fantasy horror Taryn Barker: Demon Hunter. Following its festival run and release Stateside, the critically acclaimed Irish action thriller is set to arrive on UK digital on 9 November, courtesy of Miracle Media.

The film heralds the return of actor and stunt-artist Niamh Hogan (Feed) as the feisty slayer of evil, who stars alongside genre icon Lisa Wilcox (A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master, Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventures).

A low-budget flick that gleefully couldn’t care less for budgetary restraints and goes ahead and puts whatever it wants to up there on screen regardless of how it plays out or looks. It meets with mixed and uneven results. In part this belated sequel to a film I have not seen wants to be a camp take on Eighties slasher movies, whilst also throwing in time travel, corporate Satanists into its already overegged mix.

The cast are game but their enthusiasm carries the film but only so far. The pacing does not have the legs to keep up with their energetic, engaging and buoyant, if variable, performances. On the plus side the film’s synth score captures the essence of the Eighties and I was impressed by much of what the production achieved on a lower budget.

Demon Hunter: Time 2 Kill is to be commended for its ‘can do’ attitude and daring to do things that a lower budget cannot realistic afford to put onscreen. For a short while this can be infectious enough for this viewer to overlook the film’s uneven tone and pacing, but only as far as the halfway mark as by then everything had become much of a sameness.

Demon Hunter: Time 2 Kill is on UK digital 9th November from Miracle Media

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