Review: Zak Bagans' documentary 'Demon House' is too much hooey, not enough boo Los Angeles Times

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• Review: Zak Bagans’ documentary ‘Demon House’ is too much hooey, not enough boo
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All of Anderson's officers voted to stay put and not surrender the fort before then. The three Carolina officers stepped onto Sumter's wharf, and did so gingerly, as their boat rocked below them. On the first, they learned from Major Anderson that he and his men would soon run out of food and be starved into capitulation; the officers passed this on to the Confederacy's new secretary of war, Leroy Pope Walker, in Montgomery, Alabama, provisional capital of the Confederate States of America.

Review: Zak Bagans’ documentary ‘Demon House’ is too much hooey, not enough boo

Over the last 113 days, the fort's commander, Maj. Robert Anderson, and his garrison of U.S. Army regulars, along with a cadre of men under Capt. John G. Foster of the Army Corps of Engineers, had transformed it from a cluttered relic into an edifice of death and destruction. Designed to be staffed by 650 soldiers, it now had only seventy-five, including officers, enlisted men, engineers, and members of the regimental band.

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Planters built what were in effect backyard plantations with two or more out-structures housing kitchens, stables, and slave quarters and surrounded by high walls to limit the dangers of insurrection and midnight murder. Any enslaved person who worked outside these walls had to wear a special badge, a metal medallion—square, round, octagonal— stamped "Charleston," with the year, type of job, and an identification number pinned to clothing or hung around the neck. The effect of this overwhelming slave presence was immediately evident to travelers from the North. "How strange the aspect of this city!" one such visitor observed. "Every street corner, and door-sill filled with blacks; blacks driving the drays & carriages, blacks carrying burdens, blacks tending children & vending articles on the sidewalks; blacks doing all." Happenings do get stranger as Bagans’ investigation continues, offering a fleeting hope that this could be the rare horror documentary that’s actually scary.

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But if there’s nothing groundbreaking here, it’s all uncommonly well done — cleverly written, smartly cast, sensitively played, marvelously realized. It’s disturbing at times, yet sweet at others, and comic as often as not. You can occasionally anticipate a twisted turn, because it’s a twist long years of genre exercises have taught you to expect. As they go along they will collect collaborators, progressing from a Hardy Boys model to a Scooby gang. (We get a “Scooby Doo” clip, to make a point, and pay tribute.) First is psychic Crystal (Kassius Nelson), from whom they exorcise her ex, a demon named David (David Iacono), and who can see dead people. Following a lead, they travel together to Port Townsend, Wash., which is to say Vancouver, B.C., for the tax breaks and production advantages.

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Here they’ll meet chipper, chirpy Niko (Yuyu Kitamura), whose near-death supernatural encounter allows her also to see the deceased. She has “watched hundreds of hours of detective anime and cartoons” and so feels qualified to join the gang. Crystal and Niko rent rooms above cynical tattooed butcher Jenny (Briana Cuoco), who will eventually join in. Mary described the party in a red leather-bound book laced with gold leaf and defended with a brass lock that housed her daily journal.

Not only did the state's planters call themselves "the chivalry"; they devoured chivalric novels, like Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe and Tennyson's Idylls of the King. The chivalry gave themselves military titles and favored elaborate uniforms. Their South Carolina standard-bearer, novelist William Gilmore Simms, wrote eighty-two novels in which chivalry and honor were central themes. There was a growing fear that maybe South Carolina's best days were behind her. Planters had once constituted the richest class in America, wrote Dennis Hart Mahan, a New York–born, Virginia raised professor at West Point in a November 1860 letter to a friend.

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Here are the answers to 10 frequently asked questions about the documentary and the real-life case that inspired the chilling tale. And although he starts off just toying with Edwin, “there’s something kind of beautiful about this person that’s been around for hundreds of years but still has the giddiness and the butterflies of having a crush and falling in love again,” said Gage. Netflix’s ‘Sandman’ spinoff, based on Neil Gaiman and Matt Wagner’s comic books, is centered on a pair of teenage ghost sleuths who work with London’s troubled dead. The American Meteor Society says it is sure it was a meteor that caused that streak in the night sky, with 21 reported sightings of it stretching across California, Nevada and Utah. The whole family intends to move away from the house as soon as possible. Neil Gaiman’s 20th century comic about the King of Dreams becomes a 21st century TV series — and even the changes are true to the author’s vision.

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The actual death van of Dr. Jack Kevorkian, where he carried out numerous assisted suicides. The van has been a hotspot of paranormal activity, particularly for females who have fainted and who have seen a dark shadow figure near it. Given that this film was made by someone who has spent over a decade in showbiz, the storytelling’s oddly muddled. There are pointless digressions and needless repetitions, and some of the sincerely concerned witnesses and commentators are undercut by scenes around the house that look staged — even if they may be real.

They told IndyStar that the kids' eyes bulged, their voices deepened and they sported evil smiles while possessed. The 9-year-old boy described what it felt like to be killed, and walked up the wall in the presence of a family case manager and hospital nurse. The Travel Channel investigations are real, but as for the ghosts? He released a two-hour documentary horror film, "Demon House," in March 2018 based on the experiences of Ammons and her family.

Various other mythological agents, recipes and gewgaws are crafted as desired. Talking cats, insulting sprites, a sea beast, a mushroom monster, a former walrus named Mick (Michael Beach), who runs the local (real) magic shop. Charleston was a central hub in the domestic slave trade, which in the wake of a fifty-year-old federal ban on international trading now thrived and accounted for much of the city's wealth. Census listed 440 South Carolina planters who each held one hundred or more enslaved Blacks within a single district, this when the average number owned per slaveholding household nationwide was 10.2. One South Carolina family, the descendants of Nathaniel Heyward, owned over three thousand, of whom 2,590 resided within the state.

(It’s sort of a sexy show, in a chaste way, driven by longing and jealousy.) Although they are friendly ghosts and walk the Earth by choice, they are not without trauma, of which Edwin has an extra measure, having spent seven decades in Hell because of a clerical error. If anyone cared to look, there was an analogy to be found in a new novel by Charles Dickens, called Great Expectations, just then being published in installments in an English literary weekly. One of the book's key characters, Miss Havisham, seemed the perfect embodiment of South Carolina. Having been stood up at the altar, she retired from the world, stopped her clocks, wore her wedding dress forever, and even left her nuptial feast in place, rotting on the table. Jilted at the altar of the Railroad Age, South Carolina had retreated into its own world of indolence and myth.

The younger son allegedly had his eyes roll into the back of his head and was growling saying "it's time to die," and "I will kill you". When Zak Bagans, the host and executive producer of "Ghost Adventures" on the Travel Channel, read an IndyStar story about Latoya Ammons' allegations of demon possession inside a "Demon House" in Gary, Indiana, he was hooked. For Charles, who died in the 1980s after being attacked by school bullies, this involves confronting why he is so outwardly happy and positive all of the time. While Crystal, with no memory of herself, has to both figure out her actual identity and who she wants to be in the aftermath of a toxic relationship.

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