In Louisianna,Detective Mark Lewis is summoned to attend a call from the notorious Livingston House and he finds three bodies and one survivor, John, who is in shock. He calls for backup and also the police psychologist Dr. Elizabeth Klein to interrogate John. They learn that the team of ghost-busters Bryan, John's pregnant girlfriend Michelle, Jules, Donnie and Sam decided to perform a séance in the house, where the owner Marta Livingstone had committed a violent slaughter, to summon their spirits. The séance went wrong and released evil spirits that killed Jules, Donnie and Sam; however Michelle and Bryan are missing. While Elizabeth interrogates John, Mark and the technical team tries to retrieve the hard disks with the footages from the house to find where the other two survivors may be, Detective Lewis discloses a dark supernatural secret about John.

Demonic is another horror movie under James Wan's filmography. And it's surprisingly a good watch. Better than the Insidious series and the Conjuring series I have to add. Let's face it Insidious 1 was hilarious, remember the mask connected to a headphone via a pipe seance scene? That was absolutely horrendous. The Conjuring two was also really typical and not scary at all (Bethsheba looked so hilarious and the climax was way too overdramatic). Demonic while being quite typical, has a good twist which works for it and quite a good amount of scares. And unlike overdramatics of the above mentioned movie, Demonic plays out in a more suppressive way.

The movie interlaces two timeline overarching the main plot line, with the setting being the same place, an allegedly haunted house turned crime scene. One focuses on the interrogation of a guy named "John" who is suspected of killing his friend, and the other focuses on how John and his friends came to the house. The second timeline plays out as a ghost hunting show, but it works in this case. While the plot is nothing new, there's a twist here and there which works for the movie.

The performances were pretty linear, it wasn't a screamdom like a typical horror movie, there wasn't any overdramatics, it was just pretty straight.

Overall, Demonic is among the better horror movies of this year, while it isn't "unique", there are twists in the movie which makes it for a pretty good watch, and is a better horror movie by James Wan. Recommended to casual horror watchers.