Whenever I have done Reviews or opinions of movies in our [Movies & TV Shows] Community(https://ecency.com/created/hive-166847) I have always done it about movies that I liked very much and that I highly recommend. However, today is my first post about a movie that had all the elements to be Excellent, thoughtful and different from all its predecessors. It's about as I evidence in my cover of The Black Demon and I tell you without spoilers, because even though I didn't like it at all, I recommend you see it.

I would say that I asked for it because I was watching "another shark movie" but those of us from the 80's generation have in our hearts all the emotion we experienced as children with Steven Spielberg's Shark, which managed to terrify us, even today when I am at the beach it is inevitable to hear in my head that horror music from the movie, a Masterpiece of Cinema, which ages very well because we can still share with our children an afternoon at the movies with it.

I have a weakness for watching movies about sharks, I find them to be a very real and feasible enemy, which is unsettling. And eventually I've gotten to other movies that I've really liked like Blue Inferno with actress Blake Lively.

The Black Demon is certainly about my favorite predator for movies, but one of bigger dimensions, they even mention that it is a Megalodon. I don't intend to give spoilers even though I already saw it, I will concentrate on what its official trailer gave us, which I leave below (you can access in the image or in the link below it):

La película empieza con una salida de vacaciones de la familia compuesta por Paul Sturges (Josh Lucas), su esposa Inés (Fernanda Urrejola) y sus dos hijos a una playa al norte de México. Paul trabaja en una empresa petrolera y estando de vacaciones recibe una llamada en la que le indican que debe hacer una inspección a una plataforma petrolera, que es el lugar donde se desarrollará toda la acción.

The film begins with a vacation trip of the family composed of Paul Sturges (Josh Lucas), his wife Inés (Fernanda Urrejola) and their two children to a beach in northern Mexico. Paul works for an oil company and while on vacation he receives a call telling him to make an inspection of an oil platform, which is the place where all the action takes place.

In the trailer you can see that this film wanted to have other elements to create the atmosphere of terror, it is as if a part of the whole story that we are not told had already happened, as we see a pretty desolate town, absence of birds, the daughter traveling by boat and when she touches the water she is filled with oil, and aerial scenes where you can see precisely environmental pollution by oil. Also cultural aspects since El Demonio Negro is about a legend called Tláloc.

I find this concept quite interesting because in my opinion the fact that El Demonio Negro is about a Megalodon makes it less credible, but these new elements in the film make it more terrifying because of the feasibility of the scenario.

My first problem "The Trailer", I saw the movie because the trailer sold it to me, but the best scenes of the movie are already in it. And they really were scenes that without showing off the best special effects, because they told me that this predator was certainly the protagonist of the terror of the film, but it was not.

It didn't really increase my fear of the sea, because I don't think I'm going to be attacked by a Megalodon after seeing The Black Demon, and this is something that good movies leave us with, like when we see a good movie about aliens, reptilians, conspiracy theories, etc. that makes us even question our belief system. Maybe I wouldn't have thought I would get a Megalodon, but this predator well worked into a movie would make us have more of a thing for great white sharks, for example.

However, this was not the real enemy of the movie, even if it has its name.

The real terror of The Black Demon is our choices. And this is why I have a deep claim to this film, because it had all the elements to make a big difference, to make us aware without having foreseen it at the time of choosing this film.

Environmental pollution, ecological damage, decisions, family, social responsibility, urban beliefs, etc. All these elements were present in what should have been a Great Story, but unfortunately were not developed in the right way. They were practically touched in a superficial way, making the great waste of the plot.

The characters weren't developed, their dialogues were pretty generic, I didn't manage to hook with any of them. You don't regret any death, because no character connects. The idiosyncrasy of the Mexican as always only shows off their beliefs and legends, ignorance and bad attitude; which I regret very much because they have cultural values and environmental awareness that were not adequately exposed, there is not even a character that really does it justice.

Paul Sturges' character is the one who has an arc, but it was very rushed at the end. Although I must confess that his last action did captivate me.

**The Black Demon was not bad, but I regret that it was not good, with so many good elements. The main idea of the story had very valid, strong, updated and real arguments. In my opinion it was a Problem of Form, and not of Substance.

However, as a movie buff, I don't regret having seen it. I feel I had to see it, and as I always think about movies or series after watching it and for several more days, I conclude that I really liked the plot, the background of the story, the message that the writer of the story wanted to convey, but I deeply regret the way it was treated. But the message got through to me, I feel that it will not reach everyone because it was not told well, but if you take a moment and analyze it, it did have or wanted to have a good message.

So, I recommend that you see it and that you do it in a critical and deep way, and not in a visual and superficial way as it was sold.