There seems to be a horrible drug subplot where the main guy is on the run from the drug lord he owes money to. Horror movies nowadays seem to convolute things by adding pointless subplots and scenes that don't contribute anything to the overall movie. Night of the Demons was basically camp, at it's best. It didn't need any subplots. The wrap-around subplot with the old man and the apples really wasn't that bad, and actually wrapped itself up in the end. But other than that, the movie was a basic premise to swallow: Teenagers have a party in an old abanodoned funeral home, demons start to possess them and they slaughter each other, the survivors have to try to find a way out of the cursed house. Simple premise and it stayed that way. For an obviously campy film, it should never try to take itself seriously. That's the problem, if you are going to make a goofy bloody piece of horror camp, don't try to add stuff like having the main heroine remember how her mother used to be abused by her father, or how she lost her brother in a car accident when she was a child. If you wanna make a deep horror movie, do that instead of a camp movie. If you add too much depth to a campy film, it's going to feel lop-sided. You'll confuse your audience cause they don't know whether to take the characters seriously or not.
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