Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever

Wordiezett So much average

XoWizIama Excellent adaptation.

Rio Hayward All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Leofwine_draca Cirio H. Santiago is a prolific Filipino director who churned out a string of exploitation movies throughout the '70s, '80s and '90s and is still going strong today. I'm sure his films always make money, for the simple reason that it costs about ten bucks to make them! DEMON OF PARADISE is a case in point, a cheesy re-run of the classic CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON with the absence of anything approaching a decent storyline, any notable actors or acting, and, most unforgivably, a serious shortage of creature action. Sure, in the last ten minutes the monster goes wild and on the rampage, but even then we don't get to see any gore or serious bloodshed. Fans of '80s monster movies will, I'm sure, know to expect and love some carnage from their rampaging beasties, but here there's nothing. Nada.I'll say this for Santiago: he always knows how to shoot a good-looking film on a low budget. Here, there are plenty of lush Filipino locations, from lakes to forests and beaches and more. Now, the film is supposed to be set in Hawaii, and an overcast, cloudy Philippines sure as hell doesn't look like Hawaii, but the locations are still the best part of the movie. Well, those and the music, which is of the cheap synthesiser variety but still pretty damn decent for a film of this ilk.As for the storyline, as I said before there isn't one; instead, it's like the writer took a load of elements from the JAWS movies and PIRANHA and other associated films and threw together a cheap monster flick as a result. Santiago shows his predilection for action with a few shoot-outs and plenty of cool explosions, which break up the monotony of the movie but are still few and far between. The high point of the film is a reprise of the 'helicopter attack' from JAWS 2; if you thought the scene in that film where the shark pulls a helicopter into the water couldn't get any cheesier, check out this film (let's just say a toy helicopter features heavily).Acting is rubbish from the entire cast, with Kathryn Witt as the female scientist being particularly bad. Wooden William Steis isn't much cop as the sheriff, either, and it's down to sometime scream-queen Leslie Scarborough to raise the male pulse with a nude swim that goes nowhere. The monster suit for the 'demon' is laughably bad as you'd expect and the ending is absolutely hilarious. Was there a sequel? Nope, but "have you ever pulled a lizard's tail off?".

Michael_Elliott Demon of Paradise (1987) * 1/2 (out of 4)A bunch of mean guys using dynamite to fish end up disrupting a lizard-like creature who soon goes on a killing spree where no one in the Hawaiian locations are safe.DEMON OF PARADISE comes from the Philippines and is pretty much a wannabe CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON. How much entertainment you get out of it will depend on your feelings towards ultra low-budget movies with bad acting, bad dialogue and just an all around "bad" movie feel. If you're looking for a good movie then go check out the Universal title. If you're just wanting to kick back, turn your brain off and have some cheap fun then you might want to check this out.I will admit that I enjoy watching bad movies but this one here had a few too many boring spots to keep it at an entertaining level throughout. With that said, there are certainly some moments of hilarity that make it worth watching for fans of bad movies. For starters, the lizardman costume is so funny looking that you can't help but think the creature in THE GIANT CLAW had a baby with some sort of lizard. Another great moment happens when a helicopter is flying a tad bit too low. I won't spoil what happens but laughs will certainly follow.It's really too bad that DEMON OF PARADISE didn't have more scenes with the monster because he's certainly the funnest part of the film. As it is, there are too many slow and boring scenes with talky dialogue that isn't entertaining.

slayrrr666 "Demon of Paradise" isn't all that bad, and is just simply decent.**SPOILERS**After a spate of strange fishing accidents, Annie, (Kathryn Witt) Ike, (Frederick Bailey) and Sheriff Keefer, (William Steis) urge the locals off the waters, despite their refusal to do so and insisting a legendary creature is behind it all. Due to this, Cahill, (Laura Banks) decides the time is right to start up a tourist business to the place and using the legend to tie-in with the idea, which angers them all and causes them to threaten her due to the increasing number of creature attacks in the area. When they continue and finally force her to close down her tourism business, she decides to help in hunting down the creature, which they find is a carnivorous lizard-like creature that lives in the lake and has been disturbed from it's rest by illegal hunting in the area, causing them all to band together to end the deadly rampage.The Good News: There was some good stuff at times to this one. One of the main good points is that there's some half-way decent action scenes to it. The opening, which is an assault on a fishing boat that blows up from dropped dynamite during the scuffling, to the first attack on the village and it's appearance during the festival all manage to be really enjoyable encounters that provide some decent thrills. The last half to this is really good, where the fight is taken to the creature and some really good action-scenes, including a rather fun idea where the creature is attacked from a helicopter dropping dynamite at it below, with the boats searching around for it and ending with a fun exploding helicopter sequence that ends the fun. That leads into the chaotic appearance at the military base, which is fun for the rain makes it a little more atmospheric than it should otherwise be, and there's a couple of fun encounters. The finale in the caves, where there's a super-fun confrontation within the darkened mines and there's gunfire, grenades and he sight of one victim literally blown to pieces, and these here are all pretty great. The fact that it has a lot right with the creature is a big plus, since they hardly ever show it which makes it's few appearances mean something as it's hidden off-camera for most of the early attacks, mainly signaled with just quick glimpses of it here and there. When it is shown, the sight of the demonic, lizard-like appearance that manages to look different and somewhat effective, being able to take a hail of bullets and more. The last plus in here is that there's a pretty nice body count, even if not a whole lot of it is shown. The fact that there's a lot that are killed off is pretty fun, and manages to be another good factor for the film.The Bad News: There wasn't a whole lot of bad things to this one. The main there here is that the majority of the time, nothing much happens. There's a couple of attacks here and there, but they're a separate flaw and mainly serve to break up the unending monotony of what takes up the most amount of time in here, the dull talking in here. These scenes go on forever and usually consist of the same topic, everyone warning the others about the dangers of the area and them not believing it in for the same reason that's always used, the impending tourist trade. This is used way too often and as the reason why they keep engaging in the same conversations over and over again, it gets tiresome even more than it already is. There's also the fact that the creature in here isn't that convincing, looking rather obviously like a rubber suit in it's few incarnations on-screen and it manages to ruin the mystique it creates really well in the early parts with keeping the creature off-screen or barely there, which is a big shame. The last flaw here is the obscenely bloodless kills on display. Just about all of them are done at an angle that prevents what's being seen clearly, done off-screen or just aren't exciting, such as being dragged underwater or blown up being near something that explodes. The fact that it's the most commonly used death is something of a mark against what kind of film this is, and is really the most telling flaw in the whole film. These here are what's really wrong with the film.The Final Verdict: While not being all that bad, there isn't a whole lot to it to really make it memorable, leaving it just decent. Really only give into this one if you can appreciate the lower end of the creature-feature spectrum of if it sounds interesting, otherwise then heed caution with this one.Rated R: Violence, Language and Brief Nudity

willywants Hunters become the hunted when illegal dynamite disturbs the age-old slumber of a carnivorous lizard-man. Resort owner Angela, joins forces with Sheriff Keefer to save tourists from the beast's path of death. This doesn't sound to bad, right? wrong. I am guilty of a crime many science fiction fans are guilty of. I call it "cool-box-syndrom". It's a common thing that happens, renting a movie because of a cool cover art. In this case, the cover showed a fanged reptile dragging a bathing beauty into the water.I was fooled. The monster looked nothing like the one on the cover. The plot was bad. The acting was ho-hum. The creature suit was mediocre. Some nice photography & locations, but that's not enough to make this sinker worth a renting. I now know to check with the Internet movie data base before I rent a film with good cover art.