Gargoyles: The Curse Of Hunter's Moon
Demona's Introduction
The following is an entire sequence that I'm sharing to give you a definitive idea and a great taste to show what I'm going for with this:
ST. DAMIEN'S CATHEDRAL
MANHATTAN, NEW YORK
It's the middle of the night and a bright red car with a white top on it that looks to be almost 1950s-ish pulls up right in front of the derelict church. Coming out of the front seat, Elisa Maza looks down at the location map that Fox, the mysterious women who was now disfigured on her right eye in the hospital, had drawn and given to her in secret. This was indeed the place, something that looks like Dracula would live in. When entering through the front door, Elisa is surprised at how grand the inside of it is and cracks a dryly sarcastic joke at the Queen Of England having her royal wedding here.
She makes her way to the basement as instructed and uses the golden key that Fox slipped to her as well to open the entrance. Entering and making her way down the hard stone staircase, she finds that it isn't a basement but instead is a large crypt with a black sarcophagus right in the middle across a metal mini-bridge over water. Elisa remembers what Fox had told her and that what was inside in the middle would be the evidence to nail Dominique Destine on these recent events for good. Opening it, she finds the body of a woman encased in cement and clutched in her hands to Elisa's shock is exactly what she needs to prove that Destine was involved in this. Carefully removing it from this body's cold, dead hands, Elisa gets too cocky for her own good and boasts to herself how all of this was a piece of cake in a smug way.
Only for her to stop when she begins to look at the body more closely and notices that she looks strangely familiar as if she's seen her before. It's when Elisa squints and gets just a little too close that the body in cement.... moves.
A shocked Elisa ends tripping over and horrifyingly comes not just face-to-face but nose-to-nose with the woman. Screaming in terror as the cement cracks, Elisa gets herself up and said cement completely breaks apart entirely to reveal that not only is this woman and well and not happy but also that she had blue skin, spiky, red hair, wore a white loincloth with a matching single strap top, a golden tiara on her head, an armband on her upper left arm, a leg band on her lower left leg, had sharp knife-like claws on her hands and feet and finally glowing pitch red eyes full of hard rage staring directly at Elisa, the human intruder in her lair.
After an intense scuffle where Elisa's gun is crushed by Demona's bare foot, the piece of evidence falls right into the water and as Elisa realizes she has to go in after it, several of the coffins burst open, arms smash through the walls, clawed feet push through the ceiling and out of them comes all of these creature women just like Demona with glowing red eyes, sharp fangs and equally pissed.
Jumping in as fast as she can, she scrambles around to find the main evidence in this disgusting and murky water on a terrifying time limit when she finally finds it but when she immediately grabs hold of it, a rotting head pops out from underneath it. A horrified Elisa looks around to see all these underwater skeletons and decomposing bodies around her, she screams in terror with bubbles coming up. And that guttural scream is carried over when she instantly comes back up and sees Demona is right at her who lets out a bone-chilling and nightmarish roar at her as the camera goes full-on Sam Raimi and goes into Demona's large open mouth to reveal that her uvula is a grotesque deformity that instead of being round at the bottom, it's a crooked sharp point.
A truly horrified Elisa screams in absolute terror only for the camera to pull another Sam Raimi and go into her just as wide open mouth to reveal that she too has the exact same grotesque and deformed uvula with the same sharp crooked point bottom.
The sight of this shocks and takes back Demona as Elisa runs out of the water with the other women in hot pursuit only for Demona to signal them to stop and marches forward with a twisted smirk on her face and taking her sweet time with Elisa running back up the stairway, basically saying without a line of dialogue that "she's mine".
Reaching the "basement" door and about to be free of this horrific nightmare happening in real life, it slams shut in her face. Elisa desperately tries to open it as she sees Demona's shadow approaching her which leads her to remember in the moment, the key! She pulls it out and puts it in the lock, only for her hope and relief to be instantaneously dashed when it breaks off.
Having no other choice as Demona is now dangerously close to her, Elisa uses a hole at the bottom of the door as her escape. Throwing the evidence that got her into this in the first place out through first, she goes straight through next.... but gets stuck when her ass and hips aren't big enough and as Elisa struggles more than ever, it's way too late. Demona has already reached her, for the first time here speaks by taunting Elisa as she's still trying to get through and then comments that this human's bottom is a thing of beauty on par with hers.
Demona lunges forward and sinks her teeth straight into the right side of Elisa's ass cheek as the latter screams in pain on the outside.
The camera hard cuts to the outside of St. Damien's Cathedral to show that Elisa's screams are just simple mere faints amongst the noises in New York.
The End (it isn't, it's just a scene in the middle but you get the point or what I'm saying)
What's the "evidence"?
Who are the other creature women?
How does their deformed uvula tie into this?
You'll just have to see for yourself if this idea I have for a flat-out Gargoyles animated reboot film ever happens and sees the light of day cause where's the fun in just telling you or anyone else who reads it everything about it?
Top it all off even though this is her introduction, Demona isn't the main antagonist of the movie. She's the TRITAGONIST.
I can honestly picture Salli Richardson and Marina Sirtis loving what they're reading with this in the actual fucking script.
Since this is her introduction in the film, here's the full-ish rundown on my take on Demona in The Curse Of Hunter's Moon:
She is just as much of a complex and complicated character here as she was in the original series.
Dominique "Demona" Destone is a female gargoyle who's been alive for over thousands of years and has the special ability to transform into a human during the day rather than turn to stone as they all do.
While her past will be kept completely ambigious with only a few hints to it throughout the movie, it's shown that she was once a defender of the night for humans in medieval Scotland only for them to have betrayed her clan through her actions and now having been alone for centuries since and starting a spiral downfall into a life of loneliness and pain, she's now been consumed by hate, vengeance and most of all, guilt, with a burning hatred and distrust of humans.
Demona's a morally grey anti-hero deuteragonist in The Curse Of Hunter's Moon with the same tragic backstory and even motivations of the original since it's so integral to her character.
She's cunning, wicked, ruthless, bitter and hateful along with being incredibly intelligent and highly skilled, having misplaced her own guilt onto humans in general, blaming them for her sins rather than admitting what her own actions had caused. However she's shown to have a code of morality as she refuses to harm any human children, is protective of her all-female clan and not only is impressed by but has genuine respect for Elisa with her skills especially in combat. By the third and final act of the movie, she's become morally conflicted as she realizes that who she is now and what she's doing is no better than not only what the antagonists are doing but what the humans who betrayed her previous clan did as well.
What adds more to this conflict is her newfound romantic feelings for Elisa Maza who reminds her of who she was way back when and she sees as the good mirror version of her now, having become the new link back to Demona's humanity and serves as the voice of reason to her.
Having a face-heel turn, Demona frees Elisa and co. and joins forces with them to put an end to this madness that she helped to both create and cause.
Using their skills together, Elisa and Demona work together to defeat the main threat using not just their skills but also sheer cleverness to bring it down.
However, in what I hope is a stand-out and signature cruel twist ending that we've never seen before in animation, Demona reveals at the very end that she still has a dark side and while realizing the errors of her way and having accepted her actions, she refuses to ever let what happened to her previous lover and mate, Goliath, happen again this time to Elisa.
"I hope you enjoy Castle Wyvern, Elisa, because you're gonna be staying her with me for the rest of your life!"
Then in the same hiss as seen in the GIF above that it acts as a direct call-back to, Demona opens her terrifying fangs at a horrified and shocked Elisa.
The camera then hard cuts immediately to the outside as lightning strikes in the background and a large blood splatter hits the window of an old but grand medieval Scotland castle that's now resting on top of a tall building in Manhattan.
Even when she's good, Demona ALWAYS gets her way.
What should be interesting is that in the main antagonists' headquarters, there's a whole sequence where Elisa Maza breaks in and has to use her wits to evade and then Demona. But in trying to evade the latter, she stumbles into an entire room that is an entire collection of all these numerous objects and photos from several other movies with the in-universe explanation being that they collect these so that these events are never forgotten. This flat-out heavily implies a whole retroactive shared universe with The Curse Of Hunter's Moon, all the movies you see here and plenty of others. Too many others some people will say.
