User blog comment:ChristianWallis/A Look at Ambiguity/@comment-26007602-20160603231746/@comment-28266772-20160604100952

Personally I interpreted the demon thing as a label to explain something they couldn't understand, like calling cthulhu a demon. But none of the movies I mention specifically state, or rely on this as a justification. It's just something I thought I saw. I think it's also fair to point out that demon's also bring with them a load of fixed ideas and concepts, that a lot of the time undermine the core fear factor. I like to think of the evil dead remake which I thought did a lot of things right, but I didn't like that they took the lovecraftian necronomicon from the first, and turned it into the standard satanic fair. It felt like it tried to push the series towards the more conventional heaven/hell mythology and stripped it of that weirdness I loved from the first.

Also yeah Insidious. I say it's a great film but it's also pretty damn flawed. I thought the film took a real turn downwards once it showed us some CGI hoofed monster stomping around the walls towards the end. It was too much, it ruined any suspense, and they didn't even have the special effects to pull it off either. It looked silly.