Don't Kill It stars Dolph Lundgren and comes to us from director Mike Mendez (The Gravedancers, Big Ass Spider) and focuses on Dolph as a self-proclaimed "Demon Hunter" who finds himself trying to save a small town from annihilation after an ancient demon finds its way into the citizens. The demon exists simply to kill, which is also how it spreads--it takes over a human host and makes them kill anyone in sight and once they are killed, the person who killed them gets possessed, leading to a seemingly neverending circle of death.
   
The movie has a pretty strong opening that quickly displays the films ultra violence that leaves several dead before we're introduced to Dolph doing as Dolph does: kicking ass and sexin' the ladies. He eventually makes his way to the local police department where he tells'em that they've got a demon to deal with, which normally isn't the best way to start a conversation. Luckily for him the FBI sent over one of their female agents to look into the recent string of murders and it doesn't take much convincing for her to believe in Dolph. The two spend the rest of the movie trying to capture the demon, which proves much more difficult than you'd think.



Don't Kill It is one of those dumb, but fun movies that knows exactly what it is and doesn't try to be anything more. Sure there are some pacing issues around the mid-mark, but that's soon forgotten once the awesome church sequence is introduced, where the demon starts mowing down a bunch of townspeople during a meeting, which naturally leads to a lot of chaos and dead bodies. It's also the best part of the movie that showcases the cheesy low-budget splatter effects that are a mix of really bad practicals (to the point of being hilarious) and computer imagery. It's a fun gory sequence that delivers a bunch of severed limbs and exploding heads and really makes up for the pacing issues that plagued it earlier.

However that's the last of the surprises to come from this, as the climax is as you'd expect, delivering no real revelations, which is fine since the movie kept things simple enough for the most part anyway. Ultimately the film is definitely not something I'd consider "good", but it's at least fun enough to stand out among the usual recycled indie trash the genre tends to get.

Don't Kill It is a dumb, but fun flick that offers some surprisingly entertaining splatter sequences and cheesy practical gore that makes up for a lot of the film's faults. It's nothing original and has pacing issues, along with terrible dialogue, but it all somehow works to some extent thanks to Dolph's presence and the over the top violence. If that's all you want in the movie then it's worth a look.