While Marcin Wrona has sadly passed away, his final film “Demon” cements the filmmaker’s worthy legacy. The horror flick earned plenty of buzz on the festival circuit, earning accolades including honors at last year’s Fantastic Fest. Earlier this year, the Playlist’s Kimber Myers enthused that it’s “a chilling, modern version of a folk tale.” Arriving in theaters this weekend, it’s one for genre fans to seek out, and today we have an exclusive clip from “Demon” to get you ready.
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Starring Itay Tiran, Agnieszka Zulewska and Andrzej Grabowski, the story takes place during a wedding ceremony in a country house that happens to be sitting on top of a very creepy secret. Here’s the official synopsis:
Newly arrived from England to marry his fiancee Zaneta (Agnieszka Zulewska, Chemo), Peter (Israeli actor Itay Tiran, Lebanon) has been given a gift of her family’s ramshackle country house in rural Poland. It’s a total fixer-upper, and while inspecting the premises on the eve of the wedding, he falls into a pile of human remains. The ceremony proceeds, but strange things begin to happen…During the wild reception, Peter begins to come undone, and a dybbuk, the iconic ancient figure from Jewish folklore, takes a toehold in this present-day celebration—for a very particular reason, as it turns out. The final work by Marcin Wrona, who died just as DEMON was set to premiere in Poland, is part absurdist comedy, part love story that scares, amuses, and charms in equal measure.
“Demon” opens in theaters on Friday, September 9th.