Bill Crafton (George Kennedy) and his daughter, Julie (Jill Marin), are in a cabin playing a board game when they are attacked by a hairy creature. Bill is knocked unconscious, and his daughter is dragged away. A couple months later Jack Bergman (David Michael O’Neill) and his friends, Fred Proctor (Hank Stratton), Carrie Austin (Pamela Gilbert), Cindy Ossman (Colleen McDermott) and Tom Phillips (Billy Jayne) arrive at the cabin. Most of them believe they are there to party and have a good time. In reality Jack is looking for clues as to what happened to his uncle, Clem (Joe Praml). He came up to the cabin to check things out a couple weeks previously and disappeared. No one is happy that Jack tricked everyone into coming to the spooky woods.
That night the cabin is attacked by a giant Bigfoot looking creature. Fred disappears and Tom gets killed. In the morning they find that the car has been disabled. They have no choice but to try to walk back to civilization. While they are walking back, two young women, Tara (Sharon Kennedy Sullivan) and Betsy (Michelle Bauer) are also in the woods, looking for some pots plants hidden there. Unfortunately, they find that the plants have been stolen. They decide to sunbathe for a while. Bigfoot comes along and kills Tara. Betsy manages to run away. Also in the woods is a nature photographer (Larry Grogan) that runs afoul of Bigfoot.
Jack and the girls find Bill Crafton. They learn that Crafton is after Bigfoot for killing his daughter. Their numbers grow to five when Betsy shows up at Bill’s camp. Just then Bigfoot attacks. Jack is knocked unconscious, and Bill is killed. When Jack wakes up, he finds Bill dead and the girls gone. Jack eventually finds Cindy, but she’s been turned into a zombie. He follows her into a cave. Inside the cave he finds an army of zombies that are doing the bidding of an alien, who I believe is called Azdreth, and who has been stranded on Earth for a hundred years.
“Demonwarp” was released in 1988 and was directed by Emmett Alston. It is an American science fiction horror film, and a sort of alien Bigfoot movie, with zombies.
I have questions. Why was the movie called “Demonwarp”? Where did the strange high priest come from? Why was only one person a Bigfoot and everybody else a zombie? Setting these plot holes aside, I was, overall, satisfied with the movie. Sure, there were lots of problems with it but when I look at it from a distance, it is an interesting idea, a Bigfoot movie that morphs into an alien invasion film with zombies. Gotta love it. The zombies were decent, as was the Bigfoot. The alien was a puppet. I was OK with that. The Acting was OK, but Kennedy was the most dynamic of them. There were some slow spots and a lot of cutting between various scenes that became a little annoying, but if you like boobs, well, there were some tossed in to spice things up.
George Kennedy would only take the role of Bill Crafton if the filmmakers gave his daughter a part. Shannon Kennedy was given the role of Tara. The cave used was at Bronson Canyon and is the same one used for hundreds of movies.