Dust Devil (1992)
Director: Richard Stanley
Where to get it: Echo Bridge
A shape shifter comes from the desert in search of victims, a spirit the locals call “The Dust Devil”. He prays on the lonely and the unloved, those that have already lost everything but life itself. Wendy has broken up with her husband and wanders aimlessly in her car. She picks up a stranger and begins having misgivings about picking him up when strange things begin to occur. Meanwhile a local police officer tracks the killer. Aided by a shaman’s admonishments about witchcraft he sets off to try and stop the beast before it can complete its grisly task.
And here we have a pretty cool horror thriller that was sort of lost in the dump that was the early 90s. We have a very well played and strange man/demon/beast ect that is walking the dirt lands of the world and preying on people who he knows has nothing else to lose. This is done in a somewhat erotic manner as he decides he wants to do the dirty deed with them before he kills them in order to (as the movie says) “fill the bowl”. This of course goes well until he runs into one woman who isn’t going down without a fight. This cues in our very interesting cat and mouse game as her husband and the town’s lawman go in search of her and answers.
Fans of director Richard Stanley will love the weird vibe that comes with this one. It has some very cool little color schemes that come into play every once and while that should give joy to the Hardware fans out there as well. We don’t have loads of blood and gore but what we do have is good enough to please any gore whore who might be watching. I understand this isn’t the “collector’s edition” that is out there and very highly priced. However I would think it’s a nice and price saving alternate to that version despite the 1:13 framing.
(7/10)
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