Here, ladies and gentlemen, we have absolute proof that large budgets, visual effects, name actors, or, heck, even sets, are not required to make a good movie. What is required is a good, well thought out, original story, and good actors to convey it. This may be the lowest budget movie I've ever seen, and it does show.
The makeup for the titular demon, Lo (that guy on the cover up there) was probably the most expensive part of the movie, and indeed it is a fantastic makeup job. Also, it is a fantastic performance from Jeremiah Birkett that breaths totally believable life into the makeup. He is frightening, untrustworthy, prideful, and downright hilarious. Not an easy balance, but he pulls it off.
The movie as a whole is quite bold and daring, telling it's story in a most unconventional way. And it's funny as all get out. I've always admired artistic invention in the face of dauntingly low budget, and this one has it in spades. But more important than it's inventiveness, it's sometimes crude and profane humor (Cussing and smoking and sex jokes and baby eating jokes. You've been warned), it's good makeup and acting, it's surprisingly good sound design, more than all this, it is this movie's great big, beating heart that makes it so very, very good.
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