Demon Lover Diary is a real-life horror film, a funny and frightening cinema verité excursion into the making of a low-budget horror film by Joel DeMott, whose film Seventeen, made with Jeff Kreines, was a highlight of the recent San Francisco Film Festival. Big-city innocents DeMott and Kreines head out for the Midwest to help their friends, Don and Jerry (“two factory workers who grew up on comic books and B-movies”) fulfill their life-long dream of making a horror film. Two weeks after production starts, Don and Jerry have metamorphozed into the subjects of their own obsessions, and Jeff and Joel are fleeing their friends' bullets--their film, not to mention their lives, in jeopardy. Don, meanwhile, has mortgaged his personal possessions to finance the magnum opus and Jerry is minus one finger as a result of an “accident” which netted a mere $8,000 in insurance money for the project. An exhilarating and critically acclaimed addition to the tradition of reflexive cinema (films about films), Demon Lover Diary is also a portrait of violence grown out of desperation and boredom, or, in DeMott's words, “a diary about encountering the Midwest when you're from someplace else.”