Ghostbusters John Sinclair: The Demon Wedding
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Ghostbusters John Sinclair: The Demon Wedding |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1997 |
| length | 92 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Klaus Knoesel |
| script | Christoph Gottwald |
| production |
John de Mol Martin Zimmermann |
| music |
Tom Dokoupil Detlef Schmitz |
| camera | Ekkehart Pollack |
| cut | Vera Burnous |
| occupation | |
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Ghostbusters John Sinclair: The Demon Wedding is a TV horror film produced by RTL from 1997. It is based on the magazine novel Geisterjäger John Sinclair . RTL first broadcast the film on April 13, 1997.
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Chief Inspector John Sinclair works at Scotland Yard and is responsible for supernatural cases. When a Cologne tourist collapses dead in London's Hyde Park and her blood has not clotted, Sinclair is called in to the case. During the autopsy, the corpse comes to life and kills the coroner. Sinclair manages to calm the revenant. Together with his friend, the reporter Bill Connolly and Father Ignatius, he researches the tourist, an ethnology student. He finds out that her fellow student in Cologne also died of sudden cardiac death. Sinclair learns from Father Ignatius that in the Middle Ages the Black Death - a powerful demon - wanted to destroy Cologne Cathedral through a demon wedding, but was not finally prevented from doing so. Sinclair transfers the student's body to Cologne.
There he meets the student Kerstin. Together with the two dead students and their fellow student Marion, they worked in the Ethnological Institute under Viktor Gonsoir. Gonsoir is one of the Black Death's henchmen. With the help of voodoo dolls, like the other two students before, he also kills Marion. Bill Connolly, who came later, finds out that Kerstin looks exactly like the medieval bride of the Black Death. The Black Death kidnaps Kerstin and knocks Bill down. Sinclair kills Viktor Gonsoir, but cannot prevent him from summoning the corpses of the students. The corpses run to the Rabenstein castle ruins. The attempt by the police, led by Will Mallmann, to stop them, fails. Marion kills an entire special task force. Sinclair follows the living corpses up the Rabenstein. When he tries to banish the corpses, Marion surprises him and puts him out of action. In a ritual, the three dead students finally pass and Kerstin is reborn as the bride of the Black Death and makes her way to Cologne Cathedral.
Sinclair and Bill follow Kerstin. Shortly before reaching the cathedral, they see how it is destroyed by a huge explosion. You quickly realize that this was just an illusion of the Black Death to buy time. Sinclair succeeds with his cross in the intermediate world, in which the demon wedding is to take place. He attacks the Black Death with his cross and tries to save Kerstin with an exorcism. However, she dies in his arms. The defeated Black Death vows vengeance on Sinclair.
Reviews
The special effects in the film, in particular the animation of the Black Death, and the differences to the literary model were criticized by many fans of the booklet series. Figures have been changed and other figures (Suko, Jane Collins) have been completely omitted.
In general, the film received moderate reviews:
"Goosebumps trash with gaudy effects"
“Horror film based on motifs from the novel series of the same name. The London ghost hunter is investigating the deaths of three Rhineland women, all of whom fell victim to shock. He comes across an ethnologist at the University of Cologne who deals with voodoo and is apparently obsessed with evil. He wants to bring about a demon wedding in order to take over the rule of the world with the princess of darkness. A film that is elaborately produced for television standards and culminates in the explosion of Cologne Cathedral. "
Others
A book written by Jason Dark and an audio book for the film was published in 1997 , which Florian Fitz read.
2000 RTL filmed John Sinclair again as a television series. The Ghostbusters John Sinclair series , however, does not build on the film and does not use any of the movie's actors. In 2009 the film and series were released on DVD. In 2010 a Collector's Special Edition was released on DVD. This included the audio book on 2 CDs.
Web links
- Ghost hunter John Sinclair: The demons wedding in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ [1] on the TV-Spielfilm website
- ↑ Ghostbusters John Sinclair: The Demon Wedding. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .