I’m quite an admirer of Kiah Roache-Turner’s Wyrmwood series, so I felt like I’d probably be onto a good thing with this one that the brothers produced in between those two… and I was right, too, this was quite delightful. It sets out its background premise with considerable and almost admirable bluntness before the credits even roll; basically we live in a world full of demons and have done ever since the first human sacrificed the first animal and brought demons into the world. However, there have also been demon hunters ever since, and our hero discovers he himself is one of them… more to the point, he’s the son of one of the worst of these demon figures (played, amazingly, by Monica Bellucci), and they’ve caught up with modern technology to take people’s souls. Not a little Matrix-y, with a bit of Ghostbusters thrown in, but I think it works well enough. I don’t know what this thing cost but goddamn it looks expensive; I suspect it wasn’t mega-budgeted but it’s all there on the screen. What puts the film over, really, is the characters; Roache-Turner has a quite delightful cast to embody them and they’re all fun, the two more experienced demon-hunting sisters having to school their new recruit who never realised he was such a powerful figure, and the latter’s Maori co-worker who comes to an untimely end early on and spends the rest of the film as a wraith (Epine Bob Savea as the latter is the film’s MVP for me; surprised by how small his screen career seems to have been). Pacing occasionally feels a little bit off at times but that’s a relatively small complaint; Nekrotronic was a lot of fun to watch. Unfortunately R-T’s latest production, Sting, is a giant spider movie of some sort, and, well, you know me, arachnophobe. I do look forward to what he does next (three for three so far), but I don’t know if I’ll be watching that one any time soon…
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