I See The Demon (2025)

I See the Demon didn’t exactly blow me away, but I have to give it credit for keeping me guessing right up until the end. I thought I had a pretty good idea of where the story was going several times, and I wasn’t even close.

The movie does a good job of gradually unraveling its mystery. Things start off relatively normal, but little inconsistencies begin creeping in. Conversations suddenly change, events seem to repeat themselves, and the main character slowly starts realizing something isn’t right. There’s also the question of whether her medication is playing a part in what she’s experiencing, which adds another layer of uncertainty. I liked how each new development gave us a little more information without revealing too much. By the time everything came together, I genuinely hadn’t figured it out.

The performances were good across the board. Alexis Zollcoffer has a lot to carry as the lead, especially as her character becomes increasingly aware that something strange is happening. She has to work through quite a range of emotions, with each new realization pushing things a little further, and I thought she handled that progression really well. The movie depends on us believing what she’s experiencing, and she makes that work. Jon Heder was also a pleasant surprise. His usual humor is still there, but it’s much more subdued in a largely dramatic performance that I thought suited both him and the character.

There were some filmmaking choices I really liked, particularly an early shot where a comet in the sky slowly transitions into the reflection of an eye. It’s a clever visual, and there are some other nice editing choices throughout. The practical effects were a little more mixed for me. I liked some of the designs, but the actual applications weren’t always convincing. A few looked more like something attached to an actor rather than part of their body.

I also have to give the filmmakers credit for what they accomplished with essentially one location. The entire movie takes place inside a house, but the story is structured in a way that keeps things interesting without needing much more. It feels like they understood the resources they had and came up with a clever way to make the most of them.

My biggest issue is that, even after everything was revealed, I still had some questions about how certain things actually worked. I understood where the story ended up going, but I’m not entirely sure all the pieces fit together for me. Still, I enjoyed the mystery, the performances were solid, and the story went somewhere I genuinely wasn’t expecting. For a movie that spends its entire runtime inside one house, it managed to keep me entertained.

For more details check out the film’s official site. Also, check out my review of another movie that kept me guessing, Littermates Review: A Slow Burn That Keeps You Guessing.