You remember our friend Donald Jackson, the man who brought the world Roller Blade, Hell Comes To Frogtown and, by extension, the reality-defying trauma that is The Roller Blade Seven?
Well a few years before he moved to Hollywood to get the ball rolling on that lot, Jackson was still living in his native Michigan, and made his directorial debut in 1977 with ‘Demon Lover’, by most accounts a reasonably bizarre/enjoyable regionally produced b-movie that did ok business on video in the ‘80s.
For ‘Demon Lover’, Jackson and co-producer/star Jerry Younkins hired a guy named Jeff Kreines, who drove in from out of town to work as the cameraman/DP. Kraines’ girlfriend Joel DeMott, a budding documentary-maker, tagged along to shoot some “making of..” footage and…. well let’s just say she got a lot more than she bargained for on that slippery slope between documentary gold and stark raving terror.
The video below is a ten minute montage of clips from the resulting ‘Demon Lover Diary’ (1980), and I think it speaks for itself:
If your jaw hasn’t hit the floor by the time they get to Ted Nugent’s house, well… I guess we must just be very different people.
I would dearly love a chance to see the entirety of ‘Demon Lover Diary’ (far more than I actually want to see ‘Demon Lover’), but sadly by attempts to track down a copy have thus far proved fruitless. If you can put me on the right track, please get in touch.
An excellent feature on the film can be found over at Bleeding Skull, who also give us the skinny on DeMott’s equally excellent-sounding Seventeen (1983).
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