Zbigniew_Krycsiwiki Nonsense about an old, haunted piano being brought to the small town of Ludlow, population: 47, and it causes all sorts of murder and mayhem there. The plot is obviously rather thin.A surprising, although slightly silly, killing in a barn is a highlight. Snowy photography is well done, film has the look and feel of a small town in the middle of winter, to great effect, but interior photography is unmemorable; the special effects are variable: sink catches fire (already done in Boogeyman, three years earlier) and a girl is attacked by a roll of toilet paper? Did I see that correctly? An overlong, dumbass sequence with a girl trimming her doll's hair and being attacked by people in white wigs and dressed like it's the 1700s was seemingly trying to be so-bad-it's-good, but ended up just trying this viewer's patience.The first half hour was pretty good, and there is a bit of atmosphere throughout, but it's a downhill after that first third.

mlevans Although the first one/third is a little slow, 'The Demons of Ludlow' winds up being a surprisingly decent little B horror flick.The premise is very good, with a 200-year-old New England town in which the history has mysteriously disappeared and those who know about it refuse to talk. A pair of apparent siblings, supposedly on some sort of journalistic assignment are in town, checking into its history, when a historic piano, belonging to the town's founder, is returned to the town by the founders' ancestors. As soon as the apparently generous gift is received, locals begin dying grizzly deaths.There are a few plot holes and one gets a bit tired of the preacher's alcoholic wife constantly calling, "Chris, is that YOU?" The DVD I have (part of a collection of 50 B thrillers) is a bit dark and in a few cases it is hard to tell one female from another – not to mention one figure running through the snow in the distance from another. Plus, about the second and third/eighths of the film seems to bog down a little, and the colonial ghosts somehow all resemble pirates. Still, it manages to capture a creepy mood that works pretty well. For a 26-year-old low-budget film, it has some pretty good special effects and the unknown cast does decent enough work. Overall, it's one of the better ones I've found so far on this super collection of B and C horror flicks. If you like B horror, this is well worth watching.

BloodTheTelepathicDog Take John Carpenter's "The Fog" and remove the part about pirates reclaiming their buried treasure and substitute that with a musician reclaiming his hands, and you have Demons of Ludlow - just a much tackier version, mind you.Bill Rebane, a director with the same loathsome reputation as Ulli Lommel, directs this ripoff of "The Fog" with uneven results. I have seen worse films but Demons of Ludlow is far from a classic. However, when comparing this film to Rebane's "The Cold" - this is a masterpiece. This film centers on a New England community celebrating its 200th anniversary. A gift from the town founder's descendant is presented at the festival - a white piano. However, when the piano arrives to Ludlow, people start disappearing or dying in gruesome fashion.VIOLENCE: $$$ (There is a sprinkling of violence throughout the film but keep in mind, this was made in the early 1980's and the effects are poor by today's standards. We have a decapitation, hanging, gunplay and some levitating objects).NUDITY: $ (Demons eat dinner at a cantankerous shrew's house and become fixated with her mentally unstable daughter Patricia Statz. They tear off her nightgown and give the viewer a brief flash of nakedness. Also Debra Dulman, who has a perfect body, spends the entire movie in various stages of undress).STORY: $$ (The story isn't bad but is a blatant ripoff of "The Fog." Having people die whenever someone tickles the piano's ivories was a neat little plot tidbit. The main plot line is to see if nosy reporter Stephanie Cushna can find out anything about Ludlow's past and why these strange events are taking place).ACTING: $$ (Nothing great here. I assure you, when you pop this sucker into your VCR you will not see a single recognizable face. Most of the actors have gone on to real jobs or at least discarded the movie making business. Stephanie Cushna does the best job here, as does Von Huesen as the woeful preacher).

Coventry Damned, talk about bad luck! The brief plot description on the DVD-cover sounded remotely interesting and I actually put my hopes up to see some delightfully cheesy 80's gore. Then you discover that the film is directed by Bill Rebane and suddenly all your expectations vanish! No offense Bill, but you're a ham director and it looks like you deliberately ruin all the scripts that end up in your hands. "The Demons of Ludlow" shamelessly rips off John Carpenter's "The Fog", with the plot about a snowy little town that celebrates its two hundredth anniversary. But the history pages of Ludlow are written in innocent blood and vengeful spirits return to present day to kill the descendants of the town's founding fathers. See, pretty much identical to Carpenter's classic. I don't have a problem with imitations (loads of great horror films borrow ideas from others), but the elaboration here is really weak and pathetic. For example: the titular demons live inside an antique piano (?), they can perfectly fire off shotguns, they take over the plastic bodies of a little girl's dolls and, when they eventually killed everybody they hated, they do a little bit of ballroom dancing!?! Most sequences are just incredibly boring, with tedious dialogs and atrocious acting performances, and the supposedly horrific moments only evoke feelings of pity. Ever seen a bleeding piano float in the air while cheesy laughter can be heard? Didn't think so... Personally, I couldn't wait to see all the characters die painful deaths and I was secretly hoping that the possessed piano would eventually crash-land on director Rebane. Insufferable 80's crap, avoid at all costs.