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Demon Lover/Gargoyle Girls
The title "Gargoyle Girls" is the most interesting part of this DVD. The movies themselves are standard-issue ultra-low-budget horror.
"Demon Lover" is a 1992 production, originally titled "The Summoned." It appears never to have been released on home video and that's easy to understand since the film is your basic silicone-enhanced early '90s softcore. Jenny Harris (Ashlie Rhey) is unhappy in her marriage (to a louse) and her job. Her new neighbor conjures up the titular critter (a guy in a bad rubber mask that's wisely kept in poor light) who takes care of anybody who crosses Jenny. Genre stalwarts Michelle Bauer, Joe Estevez and Robert Z'Dar are also on hand.
"Gargoyle Girls" carries a 1997-98 copyright and boasts possibly the least expensive computer generated effects ever committed to disc. The entire production has an equally cheap made-on-weekends look and so it actually shouldn't be considered a real movie. The plot has to do with the Magnificent Bixley, a birthday-party magician sorely in need of an intervention by "Queer Eye"'s Fab Five before he inherits the titular critters who, unfortunately, are presented in bright light that makes their mutant Spock ears and Daredevil horns even sillier than they might have been.
The DVD
Video:
Both of these sport sub-standard production values so any comment on the visual quality of the full frame image is pointless. Heavy aliasing and massive artifacts are the least of their problems.
Sound:
Dolby stereo is no better than the image. We're talking bottom of the barrel and beneath.
Extras:
We've got previews of three more Sub-Rosa releases, "China White Serpentine," "The Christmas Season Massacre," and "The Undertow."
Director Mike Tristano provides a commentary track for "Demon Lover." There's an irritating hum in the background, and a nearby dog occasionally barks derisively.
Final Thoughts:
How did this Drive-In Double Feature manage to escape the normally eagle-eyed G. Noel Gross and his CineSchlock-O-Rama page?
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