Cris Kennedy The Canberra Times (Australia) Dec 29, 2023 2/5

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.

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Abhishek Srivastava The Times of India Sep 8, 2023 2/5

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.

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James Croot The Post NZ Aug 17, 2023 1.5/5

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

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David Griffiths Subculture Entertainment Jul 21, 2023 3.5/5

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

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Pablo Vázquez Fotogramas Jul 7, 2023 3/5

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

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Anton Bitel Little White Lies Jul 6, 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

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Jennie Kermode Eye for Film Jun 20, 2023 3/5

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

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Crockett Houghton Film Inquiry Jun 16, 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.

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Jake Wilson The Age (Australia) Jun 14, 2023 3/5

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.

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Kat Hughes THN Jun 14, 2023 3/5

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.

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Leslie Felperin Guardian Jun 13, 2023 3/5

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

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Jim Schembri jimschembri.com Jun 9, 2023 1/5

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.

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Lisa Nystrom FILMINK (Australia) Jun 7, 2023 4/20

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

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Jack Bottomley Starburst Jun 2, 2023 4/5

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

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Matt Donato IGN Jun 1, 2023 4/10

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.

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Jackie K. Cooper jackiekcooper.com May 12, 2023 5/10

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

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Lee McCoy DrumDums May 6, 2023 3/10

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.

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Chad Collins Dread Central May 5, 2023 2/5

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.

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Abbie Bernstein Assignment X May 3, 2023 B

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.

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Joey Keogh Wicked Horror May 3, 2023

A whole lot of talking with very little shark action.

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