Grunberg has some terrific films under his belt including the Mel Gibson flick Get the Gringo and Rambo: Last Blood, but The Black Demon is that blip in your CV you try and brush over in job interviews.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 29, 2023

A film with a potent idea but fails to find the best way to develop it... [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/10 | Sep 12, 2023

The kind of film that makes you wonder if someone lost a bet and had to make a film, no matter how terrible the idea was.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 8, 2023

Adrian Grunberg and his two screenwriters clearly don’t want the audience thinking too hard about things like plot and motivation.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Aug 17, 2023

Maybe not the creature feature that everyone was hoping for - but still not a bad film - certainly holds the suspense.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 21, 2023

A summer red to enjoy amidst cuddles, gasps, and popcorn... [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 7, 2023

while the selachian serial killer is known locally as ‘el demonio negro’, oil is the other black demon here, dredging up humanity’s insatiably self-destructive corruptibility

| Jul 6, 2023

Audrey is the most realistic and respectfully written teenage girl in any film so far this year.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 20, 2023

This isn’t going to be nominated for movie of the year, it might even collect a few Razzies, but for my money, it was fun.

| Jun 16, 2023

Like Grunberg’s earlier work, The Black Demon might be called a B-movie, whatever that ancient term has come to mean. Or you might say that it was made by someone who remembers what genre movies in general were traditionally meant to look like.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 14, 2023

Overall, The Black Demon makes for an entertaining evening’s viewing, with new directions that inject a much needed freshness to murky chum infested waters.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 14, 2023

The Black Demon effectively sticks to [its] well-greased formula.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 13, 2023

Laughably bad...woefully directed... clocks in as an awful monster flick where you find yourself wishing the beast would chow through the cast as quickly and efficiently as possible.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 9, 2023

… less The Meg and more Greenpeace environmental awareness campaign on crack.

| Original Score: 4/20 | Jun 7, 2023

The Black Demon is an entertaining and timely shark thriller with lots of meat on the bone… and plenty of teeth to chew it!

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 2, 2023

The Black Demon barely makes a splash in a pool filled with better shark attack movies, falling victim to a small body count, a grating protagonist, and disappointing digital effects.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Jun 1, 2023

Could have done with a little less dialogue and a little more action.

| Original Score: 5/10 | May 12, 2023

The Black Demon has much more dramatic bark than bite, and the shark action isn't anything new or unique. It's almost non existent.

| Original Score: 3/10 | May 6, 2023

The Black Demon tries to make a point, but any subtext it might have achieved is destined to sink among the chum of a bare-bones monster movie.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 5, 2023

It’s hard to develop jump scares with something as big as the Black Demon, but the movie still generates a fair amount of suspense.

| Original Score: B | May 3, 2023