Shrieker (1998)

When the herald of hell known as The Shrieker is summoned at an old abandoned hospital, the group of college students living there must rely on ancient spells and alchemy to defeat it. SHRIEKER combines elements from NIGHT OF THE DEMON, INFERNO, and HALLOWEEN in a confused tale of the demonic that surely misses the mark. Just like in NIGHT OF THE DEMON, a spell is cast to summon The Shrieker, and five of the six teens are given marks that signal the demon as to who its intended sacrifices will be. From there, it drifts off into a below-average stalk-and-slash effort with no bloody payoffs during the kills. The creature's primary method of dispatch is a claw across the face, which wouldn't even kill a person to begin with, but that fact is washed away with countless other discrepancies in the uninspired screenplay. Clocking in at a measly 72m runtime, the most shocking element of the film is how anticlimactic the ending is; even the surviving characters comment on how easily the villains are defeated. It is unfortunate that the decent acting and cinematography that went into the film are wasted on such a poor end product.

Rating: 5/10.
Gore: 3/10.

If you liked SHRIEKER, check out:
INFERNO, THE UNNAMABLE, RAWHEAD REX.