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Oh God! One of my very favorite all time flicks! I can't wait to see what they do with the remake because I know in no way could even cut close! This is the movie I wait every halloween to watch just so it feels just as real as the first time although its torture!!!!!!!THE HALLOWEEN TO ALL HALLOWEEN FLICKS!!!!!!!!!!
very cheesy but you gotta love it! this movie scared the crap out of me as a kid. of course it's not as good as you remember but it's still a good look see.
I never watched this a a kid, so I don't have any feelings of nostalgia towards it. With that being said, I found the first thirty minutes very tedious. Bad dialog. Bad acting. Bad writing. This movie was just too cheesy to ever connect with me. It's not terrible, just mediocre.
One of my favorite 80's horror movies ever. Just plain fun.
Posted By: trickytreats at 3:34pm, September 21, 2009
I finally watched this movie and had a great time. Although I wouldn't put it up there with some other 80's horror movies, such as Fright Night, I can definitely see how it inspired some current horror movies.
i LOVE this film! angela scared the shit out of me as a kid. the first film is the best, then the 2nd, and the 3rd just sucks. back to the first film, it's got a simple story, teens getting possessed one by one at a party, good atmosphere, DECENT acting, and awesome special effects. that lipstick in the boob scene is still effective to this day. rent all 3 of these, they're worth it.
Damn spiffy piece of 80's horror greatness. Starts just like you'd expect any horror movie to start, but it spices things up here for an all around experience that doesn't feel like you've been there and done that.
Plus you get to see a nipple absorb a tube of lip stick! Ever seen that before? Didn't think so.
Think I ultimately like the second film more though.
I've been hearing about this movie for some time now. People have cited it as one of the best movies of the '80s (because let's face it, the '80s were the best decade for horror movies, and music for that matter).
I saw it last night and I woke up this morning wondering what all the fuss was about. The movie has a slow start, but then again it has some hilarious dialogue. The movie has a couple of scary shots, but then again it really doesn't have much gore. The trade-offs give this movie a solid 3.5 skulls, but in the end, the movie just wasn't that entertaining. I almost fell asleep when the 'action' started.
Posted By: alienfetus at 11:43pm, November 12, 2008
Ah, good old "Night of The Demons." An ex-girlfriend recommended this to me a while back. She was kind of obsessed with it at the time, and I can understand why. This is one from the good old days of horror. So bad it's good. It's hilarious, gorey, and full of T&A and the 80's. In fact, I think I'll get the DVD asap!
Im sorry but I dont think this is a cult classic. I think it just sucks ass in general. The acting is horrible and its really not that funny. The effects were alright.
Posted By: Fridaythe13th at 11:27pm, October 10, 2008
Good movie to watch. I enjoyed watching it, but I couldn't help but feel like something was missing. I don't exactly know what that something is, but there definitely is something. Overall a decent movie.
Posted By: thedescent08 at 10:53am, October 6, 2008
Awesome movie!
Posted By: bigmo_402 at 11:33pm, September 29, 2008
not one of my favorites, just ok thank god the 80s are gone
This one stands out as a surprisingly good film complete with Linnea Quigley and sexy Goth girls gone bad. The plot is hardly complex but the effects and scenarios are the things childhood nightmares are made of.
This is one of my top 5 fav films... Night of The demons will scare the living hell out of you... then turn around and make your laugh about it.... this films rocks.. a must see!
By far, one of the most ridiculous demonic possession films of the 1980’s, Night of the Demons is cram-packed with many hard to digest goodies such as an abundance of gory death scenes, cheesy teenage sexual innuendo, and terrible one-liners (I.E. “Eat a bowl of FUCK, I’m here to party!) The movie follows a group of irreverent, horny teenagers who enthusiastically ditch the high school Halloween dance to attend a creepy classmate’s Halloween party. The party just so happens to take place at an abandoned funeral parlor--which is rumored to be infested with malicious, soul hungry demons…Sound familiar? Well, One thing that all fans of the horror genre should know when approaching a demonic possession film is that the majority of these movies are based on roughly the same premise: A group of teenagers/young adults plan to spend the night in some sort of dilapidated residence that turns out to be populated by flesh and/or soul hungry demons of some sort. The infamous ‘Evil Dead’ series is a prime example of what the demonic possession sub-genre is all about.
Night of The Demons—as utterly terrible of a movie it is—features many humorously entertaining (and not to mention disturbingly memorable) scenes which will make you want to bust a gut…and then vomit soon after. One of the most memorably outrageous scenes involves scream queen Linnea Quigley drawing all over her porn-star perfect breasts with a stick of pink lipstick, and then successfully managing to fully insert the stick into her nipple. I never really understood the relevance of many of the over-the-top senseless scenes in this movie, which is probably the number one reason why I’m not too big of a fan of Night of the Demons. Honestly, I feel that this film is way overrated. There are so many well-crafted demonic possession films out there (I.E. Sam Raimi’s The Evil Dead and William Peter Blatty’s The Exorcist), I just feel that on top of being entirely too cliché, this movie really has nothing going for it except the over abundance of teenage nudity and gratuitous amounts of gore. I’m starting to lose all hope that maybe someday someone will throw me off with a totally new & improved take on the seemingly washed up genre that we all once new so well and loved.
The film continues on in the same typical, seemingly plotless fashion as many similar 80’s/90’s demonic possession films. The body count rises as the acting gets worse and the ‘Gap-commercial pretty’ teenagers grow increasingly haggard-looking. However, one thing about this film that really impressed me was the fashionably FX-enhanced demons. The gore in this movie is incredible—And I’m sure many fans (and even some non-fans) of the sub-genre couldn’t help but agree. The film contains some of the most gratuitous gore featured in any demonic possession film, including bursting eyeballs, torn out tongues, and slit throats spraying out excessive amounts of blood. One scene in particular that really blew me away was the nail-studded baseball bat to the face. Let’s face it it’s not very often that horror movie lovers are exposed to a new and unique way of watching someone get killed. So when it does happen, we’re usually not expecting it, hence why we are so utterly shocked and amazed by it. Night of the Demons is a ‘love it or hate it’ kind of movie. For every praiseworthy quality the film has to offer, there is an equally (if not much worse) bad quality to slowly follow behind it.
It can be said that director Kevin Tenney made an honest effort to impress horror fans with the grisly gore and teenage sleaze that basically make up Night of the Demons. He probably thought that he was successful at providing the audience with something that would leave a mark in horror film history. In retrospect, Kevin Tenney would have been much more successful at fulfilling his goal if he were to have made a ‘Slasher’ flick rather than a sad excuse for a demonic possession movie. The two key elements that he tried so hard to use as the foundation for Night of the Demons are clearly those of which should have logically been incorporated in an 80’s ‘Slasher’ flick. After all, every true horror fan is well aware of which specific characteristics are used in different horror films and why, mainly because the key elements used in a horror film are what segregates it into the sub-genre that it belongs in. One of my biggest issues with Night of the Demons is the tagline; “Angela is a having a party, Jason and Freddy are too scared to come, but you’ll have a hell of a time.” I mean honestly, if you want to be held accountable for the creation and production of a poor excuse for a demonic possession film, so be it, but don’t try to make it sound better than it really is by using the antagonists from some of the greatest horror films of all time in your tagline, that’s just unfair, not to mention extremely disrespectful.
Dominic Marceau of the eminent Horror website Bloody-Disgusting.com wrote a review that truly knocked me off my feet in terms of how much he worships Night of the Demons. Upon viewing this film for the very first time, I really did not think much of it. Once I finished reading Dominic’s review I couldn’t help but feel as though I had missed something. What is it that people find so entertaining about this movie? I thought to myself as I was overwhelmed by feelings of curiosity and the possibility that I may have misjudged the film. After I finished attempting to over-analyze the film, I came to the conclusion that just like any other horror film, it all comes down to personal taste. What appeals to one horror fan means absolutely nothing to another. This is one of the things that make horror movies so controversial, hence why such a large fan base exists. People love controversy! Well, my opinion of the film never changed, even after giving it a second chance. In fact, I found it rather difficult to sit through another ninety minutes of the same mindless, hardly entertaining crap that Night of the Demons is overflowing with. This movie is definitely only worth a one-time viewing.
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