The Eric Roberts Collection: The Demonic Dead (dir by Rick Vargas)

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

Eric Roberts appears for about 18 seconds in 2017’s The Demonic Dead.  He plays the Devil, which means that he wears a black suit and he flashes a sinister smile while he speaks to Maria Cruz (Ronee Collins).  Maria is angry with God so she agrees to become a servant of the Devil.

What is Maria’s job?  She and an army of zombies hide out in the hills and kill people.  Reno (Arben Selimi), a demon hunter whose violent methods have apparently generated some controversy within The Church, is sent to take Maria out.  Reno’s wife, Katherine (Kat Kaevich), wants Reno to abandon the whole demon hunting thing because being a demon hunter is a real drag on their marriage.  Reno thinks about Katherine and we are treated to a rather long relationship montage, all set to a song called Katherine!

Anyway, Maria is targeting a group of college students, one of whom just happens to be a longtime friend of Reno’s.  Reno goes to help, carrying his special golden gun with him.  Eventually, Katherine follows and we get some zombie mayhem.  One unfortunate person gets his guts pulled out on camera.  “Kidney!” Maria says at one point.

This was a very, very low-budget film and it was way too amateurish to be effective.  The acting was unpolished and the pacing was so off that this rather short film still felt a bit too long.  That said, there was some thought behind the story and the film did attempt to explore what being a demon hunter would actually do to someone’s psyche.  The film had some ambition, which is more than I can say for a lot of low budget horror flicks.

Previous Eric Roberts Films That We Have Reviewed:

  1. Star 80 (1983)
  2. Runaway Train (1985)
  3. Best of the Best (1989)
  4. Blood Red (1989)
  5. The Ambulance (1990)
  6. The Lost Capone (1990)
  7. Best of the Best II (1993)
  8. Love, Cheat, & Steal (1993)
  9. Voyage (1993)
  10. Love Is A Gun (1994)
  11. Sensation (1994)
  12. Dark Angel (1996)
  13. Doctor Who (1996)
  14. Most Wanted (1997)
  15. Mercy Streets (2000)
  16. Raptor (2001)
  17. Rough Air: Danger on Flight 534 (2001)
  18. Strange Frequency (2001)
  19. Wolves of Wall Street (2002)
  20. Border Blues (2004)
  21. Mr. Brightside (2004)
  22. Six: The Mark Unleased (2004)
  23. We Belong Together (2005)
  24. Hey You (2006)
  25. Depth Charge (2008)
  26. Amazing Racer (2009)
  27. In The Blink of an Eye (2009)
  28. Bed & Breakfast (2010)
  29. Enemies Among Us (2010)
  30. The Expendables (2010) 
  31. Sharktopus (2010)
  32. Beyond The Trophy (2012)
  33. The Dead Want Women (2012)
  34. Deadline (2012)
  35. The Mark (2012)
  36. Miss Atomic Bomb (2012)
  37. Assault on Wall Street (2013)
  38. Bonnie And Clyde: Justified (2013)
  39. Lovelace (2013)
  40. The Mark: Redemption (2013)
  41. The Perfect Summer (2013)
  42. Self-Storage (2013)
  43. A Talking Cat!?! (2013)
  44. This Is Our Time (2013)
  45. Bigfoot vs DB Cooper (2014)
  46. Doc Holliday’s Revenge (2014)
  47. Inherent Vice (2014)
  48. Road to the Open (2014)
  49. Rumors of War (2014)
  50. Amityville Death House (2015)
  51. Deadly Sanctuary (2015)
  52. A Fatal Obsession (2015)
  53. Las Vegas Story (2015)
  54. Stalked By My Doctor (2015)
  55. Enemy Within (2016)
  56. Hunting Season (2016)
  57. Joker’s Poltergeist (2016)
  58. Prayer Never Fails (2016)
  59. Stalked By My Doctor: The Return (2016)
  60. The Wrong Roommate (2016)
  61. Dark Image (2017)
  62. Black Wake (2018)
  63. Frank and Ava (2018)
  64. Stalked By My Doctor: Patient’s Revenge (2018)
  65. Clinton Island (2019)
  66. Monster Island (2019)
  67. The Reliant (2019)
  68. The Savant (2019)
  69. Seven Deadly Sins (2019)
  70. Stalked By My Doctor: A Sleepwalker’s Nightmare (2019)
  71. The Wrong Mommy (2019)
  72. Exodus of a Prodigal Son (2020)
  73. Free Lunch Express (2020)
  74. Her Deadly Groom (2020)
  75. Top Gunner (2020)
  76. Deadly Nightshade (2021)
  77. The Elevator (2021)
  78. Just What The Doctor Ordered (2021)
  79. Killer Advice (2021)
  80. Megaboa (2021)
  81. Night Night (2021)
  82. The Poltergeist Diaries (2021)
  83. The Rebels of PT-218 (2021)
  84. A Town Called Parable (2021)
  85. Bleach (2022)
  86. Dawn (2022)
  87. My Dinner With Eric (2022)
  88. 69 Parts (2022)
  89. D.C. Down (2023)
  90. Aftermath (2024)
  91. Bad Substitute (2024)
  92. Devil’s Knight (2024)
  93. The Wrong Life Coach (2024)
  94. When It Rains In L.A. (2025