Dean Geoghegan:

DEMONSOUL which has a clever story but is very cheap and cheerful also features KERRRY NORTON who would go on to appear in the NEW “BATTLESTAR GALACTICA” and a little cameo from ALLAN BRYCE publisher/editor of THE DARKSIDE MAGAZINE.

The plot is almost like a mash up of HANDS OF THE RIPPER and BLOOD FROM THE MUMMY’S TOMB and with a budget and a slight polish could be a really good horror movie. Sadly as the original does not have much of a budget it is not a really good horror film but is one of those ones that does make you think it has clever ideas.

A young woman having nightmares visits a hynotherapist (a lift;le like HANDS OF THE RIPPER) who hypnotises her and them molests her whilst she is under his influence. This however releases the spirit of a centuries old vampire the Demonsoul of the title killed years before and of whom she is the mortal reincarnation.

Eileen Daly plays the vampire’s human companion who with a cult of satanists intends to bring the vampire aspect back to take control of the woman’s body. A little like the reincarnated egyptian princess of BLOOD FROM THE MUMMY’S TOMB.

Wandering around in a couple of abandoned halls and woods (cheap to film in of course) the film is obviously filmed on a budget of a handful of pounds but on watching it I was struck by how with a modern polish (and a few better actors) the film could actually work really well.

The film is available in a R1 DVD set with other zero budget vampire movies or as an increasingly rare VHS version.

I think EMILY BOOTH might even be in it uncredited but I could be wrong on that one.