The Black Demon is a 2023 science fiction horror thriller film written by Boise Esquerra, directed by Adrian Grünberg and starring Josh Lucas, Fernanda Urrejola and Julio Cesar Cedillo.[2][3] In the film, a stranded family on a crumbling oil rig in Baja faces off against a vengeful megalodon shark.Oil company inspector Paul Sturges is sent to a small town in Baja to check on an oil rig known as “El Diamante.”The Black Demon 2023 Movie Download
Having fond memories of the town, he brings his wife Ines and their two children – teen Audrey and younger brother Tommy – along for a vacation. When they arrive, they discover that the town is in ruins, a shell of its former self. There seems to be some urgency to get Paul out to the rig, so he catches the first boat, leaving his family on the shore. He discovers that not only is the rig dilapidated and hazardous, but somehow a gigantic, ferocious 60 ft (18 m) megalodon shark (“El Demonio Negro”, or The Black Demon) prowls the waters below and will stop at nothing to protect its territory. Unfortunately, Paul’s family decides to follow him and they all wind up stranded on the rig, along with two remaining workers, Chato and Junior. Stranded and under constant attack – worse yet, time is running out for the rig itself – Paul’s idyllic family vacation turns into a living nightmare when he and his family must somehow find a way to get back to shore alive before the shark strikes again in this epic battle between man and nature.Chad Collins of Dread Central awarded the film 2/5 stars, writing, “The Black Demon tries to make a point, but any subtext it might have achieved is destined to sink among the chum of a bare-bones monster movie.”[8] Matt Donato of IGN gave the film a score of 4/10, writing, “The Black Demon is yet another in a procession of not-good-enough shark attack movies that repeats the same frustrating motions.”[9] Meagan Navarro of Bloody Disgusting wrote, “The Black Demon only loosely explores the cryptid and instead uses it as a tool to spin a cautionary tale of manmade ecological disaster. But it never builds upon its shallow ideas, resulting in a messy effort sunk by its lackluster human focus.”[10]