Attack of the Demons (2019) is an animated gem that I recently watched on Prime. The storyline follows a group of friends in the mid 90s that live in a small Colorado town. When a local cult unleashes a demon apocalypse the group of friends will try to save the world.

This movie is directed by Eric Power (Path of Blood) and contains the voices of Thomas Petersen, Katie Maguire, Andreas Petersen and August Sargenti.

The animation for this picture is very basic but worked. The depiction of the 90s was a lot of fun and spot on. The storyline was fairly straightforward but worth following and the kills and background music were awesome. There's a fox demon and numerous spitting ooze sequences that are really good. The final battle is entertaining and wraps the movie up well.

Overall, this is a unique addition to the horror genre that I would recommend seeing once. I would score this a 7/10.

The story is simple, but it takes about 25 minutes to actually go anywhere. And the movie isn't even 80 minutes long. That said, there's some genuinely neat ideas for body horror going on here.

There's some decent use of music, and usually just when I thought "hey, this scene is quiet" some music or sounds or something would kick in. Nothing memorable, but adequate.

The animation is reminescent of South Park, but very much its own thing. Kudos to the creator! (although Nat looks like a hunchback, and once I saw it I couldn't unsee it)

The dialogue was okay. Not great, but not horrid. But when read by the voice actors it became... it became so bad that it made me realize that voice acting really takes talent. And that this movie doesn't have any of that talent. Seriously, it's like the cast isn't even trying, and hurts the movie for it.

Tone is scattered. There's some mildly amusing comedy with one crazy character, and goofy bits with monster parts, and then also lots of dreadful horror elements. It's like if Sam Raimi (manic campy energy) and George Romero (slow sad dread) had a child, and that child couldn't decide which parent it wanted to follow so tried to bounce between the extremes.

It may be worth a watch just for folks who want to say "I watched it", but I can't say it's good. I'll give it 5 stars solely for being a horror movie in a style nobody else is really doing, but without that I'd give it a 4 or even a 3. A tighter tonal focus, less early padding (or maybe more horror mixed in during the padding?), and some voice actors who can act and a script worth their acting, and this would be higher.