Nerds That Geek Movie Review: ‘Don’t Kill It’

Written by Scott Edwards

While some people spend a lifetime trying to find their dream career, there are those lucky ones that are able to know it from the start. While these people are happy with what they are doing, they do lack a little more experience when all is said and done. Only doing one thing for their entire lives, they may never understand what they are missing from trying something else and while it’s great that they’re happy, there is something about changing that adds more character to a person. But overall, if you are happy with what you are doing, and it pays the bills, there is no reason to change it unless you feel the need to.
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Hearing about three separate mass killings in her hometown, Agent Evelyn Pierce draws the straw from the agency to head in and check it out. With her history in the town, she is a new woman now and does not want to hear about anything from her past, but it continues to find her. Sitting down with Chief Dunham, Evelyn is shocked to see that her meeting is being interrupted by a madman talking about Demons in the small town. Locking up Jebediah in a holding cell, the demon hunter lets out his final words on the subject about the eyes of the victims going black and while Evelyn take this with a grain of salt, she does bury it in the back of her mind.

Arriving at the hospital to talk to one of the more recent victims, Evelyn listens to the story about a madman coming into the house and killing her daughter before he was killed by her husband, then how the husband turned on the remaining members of the family. But when the eyes are mentioned, Evelyn knows that the stranger might be on to something that nobody has ever encountered in this small town. Allowing Jebediah to get some food in him, the demon hunter tells the story about his earlier dealings with this demon. Losing his father in the process of defeating the demon, then losing the caged spirit in the area, there is only one way to keep the demon from jumping bodies, a murder-suicide scenario.

After following a lead that should reveal where the demon is hiding turns out to be bad information, Jebediah and his new partner Evelyn find out that they are being hunted. Attacking Evelyn while she is hiding out in the truck, the demon does not try to kill her, but would rather become one with her. Taking note of what he has just witnessed, Jebediah knows that there is something special about the woman and after seeing some scars on her back, he is able to put it together. Being of Angel lineage, if Evelyn kills the demon, which would allow him to jump to her, she could unleash hell on earth by opening a gateway that will never be closed again. Needing to get the town’s people on the same page about what will happen if they kill the possessed, a town hall is called, but that only opens up a new mess that nobody is ready to deal with.

From the opening of this movie I was hooked for one reason alone, the blood that filled the screen. While most of the time I focus so much more on the story than anything else, I was taken in by this and I am not ashamed to say so, because it was epic. Then the story line turned out to be pure cheese and enjoyable for what it was. I did feel bad for Evelyn throughout as she seemed to be the butt of so many punchlines and she was never able to escape the fact that she was a woman and had a history in the town. I wish that her story played out differently, but she does have the last laugh when everything is said and done. With rubber bullets, real bullets, shotguns, rifles, handguns, good shots, exploding heads, chainsaws, axes, holy water, an out-of-control preacher and a town killing itself off, this is just an entertaining ride into a small town with a demon problem, the likes of which nobody has ever survived. Stay Scared.

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