Marco Castellini
•A mad killer, arrested at the time by detective Hobbes, is executed in the gas chamber. But the nightmare is not over: the murderer is actually a malevolent entity, the demon Azazel, who takes possession of people completely controlling their will and forcing them to kill. Hobbes tries to stop him, even at the cost of his life, but in vain. Although the idea of the killer returning after execution is not exactly the pinnacle of originality, this time, imagining the existence of the centuries-old demon Azazel, the director has succeeded in creating a variation on the theme. Some sequences are well made and at times unsettling, but the film as a whole is average, becoming a bit slow in the middle part. In the role of the protagonist, we find a Denzel Washington less inspired than usual, while the excellent performance of the great (in every sense) John Goodman is noteworthy.
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