The Demon’s Waltz (2021)

Rebecca, a private investigator who always looks sad, is hired by mortuary worker Harper to look into the death of a teenage girl who died after doing a viral Tik Tok dance challenge. They discover that many young people who do the dance end up dead, which becomes more alarming after finding out Rebecca’s younger sister has done the challenge and her multiple sclerosis seems to have gotten better. 

We also find out that Rebecca isn’t much of a private investigator when she doesn’t do any research on anything or any background checks.  She just blindly bumps along until her teen sister does some research on the internet, or a client does a reverse image search. Holy crapRebecca, you shoudn’t be charging anyone for your time.

There is a lot of talk about God and the movie is way too long, clocking in at almost two hours.  Why does everyone want to make two hour movies nowadays? For all the issues I had with The Stalker a few weeks ago, at least it lasted only slightly more than sixty minutes. Two hours should be set aside for brilliant filmmakers or amazing storytelling, not run of the mill low budget horror. There’s so much padding in this film and scenes that go nowhere.

This is the happiest Rebecca gets