Demon
During the preparations for his wedding, Peter (Itay Tiran) accidentally stumbles on a pile of human bones in a makeshift grave, only to be possessed by dybbuk, a demon of Jewish legend.
25 October 1962, Katowice, Slaskie, Poland
6 July 1962, Poznan, Wielkopolskie, Poland
2 June 1961, Lomza, Podlaskie, Poland
8 July 1985, Radom, Mazowieckie, Poland
28 June 1989, Inowroclaw, Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Poland
18 September 1986, Starogard Gdanski, Pomorskie, Poland
13 May 1939, Lwów, Lwowskie, Poland [now Lviv, Ukraine]
13 August 1971, Mragowo, Warminsko-Mazurskie, Poland
26 June 1987, Ozimek, Opolskie, Poland
1962, Zielona Góra, Lubuskie, Poland
22 May 1991, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
8 April 1973, Bielsk Podlaski, Podlaskie, Poland
15 March 1952, Chrzanów, Malopolskie, Poland
25 December 1973, Bialystok, Podlaskie, Poland
23 March 1980, Petach Tikwa, Israel
26 September 1989, Nowy Sacz, Malopolskie, Poland
October 26, 2016
Ultimately, what lingers most strongly in Wrona's impressive film is less the actual aberration, and more the examination of how people as a group react to it being in their midst.
October 21, 2016
A paranormal descent into madness and mayhem that's hauntingly good.
October 27, 2016
Demon isn't a bad film; it's a disappointing one.
September 15, 2016
A chilling, eerie cautionary tale about the ghosts that continue to haunt Poland long after the war.
December 16, 2016
We've seen weddings explored as a chaotic setting in cinema numerous times before, but there's something uniquely compelling and wholly original about what Wrona creates with Demon.
September 15, 2016
Wrona jumbles several genres together, including dark comedy, to illuminate larger, more ambitious themes.
September 23, 2016
"Demon" is a testament to a still-budding talent, and it would have been fascinating to see where he went next.
October 27, 2016
A fistfight between the bridegroom and one of his guests is the least bad thing that happens at the wedding of Piotr (Itay Tiran) and Zaneta (Agnieszka Zulewska).
September 22, 2016
Entertaining and deeply screwed up with historic horrors, this is an all-too-human ghost story that wears several bleeding hearts on its sleeve.
September 15, 2016
Tonally the film recalls Andrzej Żuławski's shrieking psychodrama Possession, though the key to that movie was its inexplicability and Wrona's movie, with its conventional horror backstory, is much less perplexing.
September 29, 2016
Though it's based on Piotr Rowicki's play Clinging, director Marcin Wrona's spirited staging keeps it from ever dissolving into canned theater.

