Night of the Demons
by Kevin Tenney
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Actor: Allison Barron, Alvin Alexis, Cathy Podewell, Hal Havins, Harold AyerDirector: Kevin Tenney
Producer: Don Robinson
Producer: Doug Yerkes
Producer: Jeff Geoffray
Producer: Joe Augustyn
Writer: Joe Augustyn
Producer: Michael Josten
Producer: Patricia Bando Josten
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-08-24
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
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- Condition: New
- Format: DVD
- Color; DVD; Widescreen; NTSC
DVD Reviews of Night of the Demons
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Summary: 2 Stars
Yes, Mimi Kinkade is as white-smoking hot as a firecracker on an Alabama tin-roof in high summer.
Yes, Linnea Quigley is as white-smoking hot as the fender of a '57 Chevy left out in the middle of Death Valley on a 135 degree day.
And yes, if the intro animation were the whole flick, "Night of the Demons" would rock.
But it isn't. And that's why "Night of the Demons" is what Carbon Dioxide gas would be if it were a movie: odorless, colorless, tasteless, scareless, and deadly dull. How can you go wrong with a late-1980's horror flick featuring a Halloween party held in a decrepit mausoleum with a dark and fatal past, a passle of booze-snookered high-school hooligans, with a few bored and hungry demons tossed in for good measure?
Kevin Tenney proves you can go very, very wrong. Despite heaps of atmosphere, a moody setting, the coolest animated credits in horror movie history, and two red smoking hot leads (Mimi Kinkade and Scream Queen Linnea Quigley), "Night of the Demons" is all set-up and zero pay-off. This is a film in which you constantly hiss "Great Crom, this *has* to get good any minute"---right up to the final credits, when you deflate and sigh "that's all there is?".
The only exception of the final "Apple Pie" Sequence, at the very end of the film, in which a misanthropic old geezer gets his just desserts, quite literally. To be brutally honest, apart from the brief eye-gouging scene, the little fun you'll have with this turgid flick---assuming you love horror movies, that is---is if you fast forward to the end of the movie, where you'll see what happens to nasty old men who hate Halloween.
Had Tenney capitalized on the film's final four minutes of Grand-Guignolesque nastiness throughout "Night of the Demons", this would have been an unabashed four-star romp. Alas, "Night" is bloodless and toothless.
If you're a horror movie completist, you'll check this thing out---I realize that.
I'm writing this review simply as a warning beacon: do not go into "Night of the Demons" unarmed. Do not go with high hopes. Do not expect a gore-encrusted goulash a la Dan O'Bannion's "Return of the Living Dead", as I, seeing Quigley's name on the credits, did. Do not think that the cool intro animations, the Borgo Pass 1980's Bauhaus tunes, the red smoking hot presence of Kinkade & Quigley, and the awesome glory of the mirror shot promise you a satisfying horror flick.
In summary: Do not crash this party with high expectations or you won't be "partying hearty" when the credits roll. First off, director Tenney took out a big bloody scalpel and ripped off the infinitely superior Italian gore maestro Lamberto Bava: "Night of the Demons" is basically Bava's disgustingly satisfying "Demons" & "Demons 2" without the fun, the scares, or the gore.
In those films, it is true you have to suffer idiotic dialogue and excruciating dubbing, but you are rewarded for your patience. By contrast, unless you like watching complete idiots wander through darkened hallways crying out for each other, you'll never get a satisfying payoff from this well-appointed, searingly dull waste of time and celluloid.
Yes, Mimi Kinkade's dance to the sepulchral "Stigmata Martyr" made me run out and buy the Bauhaus "Singles:1: CD. But style aside---and at times, "Night of the Demons" has style in spades, leaving the viewer in the hellish limbo of always expecting that the film is about to get good---what's the point?
What's the point of a horror flick that never delivers the tricks and treats? What's the point of a movie about demonic possession when the red sauce never really flies? How is it possible for mere mortals to evade demons merely by walking down a hallway a few feet and turning right, while the supposedly rampaging demon ambles on in the other direction?
Why is it that the high school sweethearts, murdered while making out in a coffin buck-naked, dutifuly don their clothes as undead demons before slaughtering their schoolmates?
I'm a lenient horror fan and gorehound; I don't ask much. What I ask for is this: goop, gore, blood, and scares. "Night of the Demons" is about as scary as a haunted house held at a local church. Two stars for the delicious Quigley (with her extra-storage space for lipstick) and the luminous Kinkade (who devours the camera every second she's on), 1/2 star for the eye-gouging and razor blade finale. This is the rare instance in which you should ditch Angela's "party" and hit the high school stomp instead. You'll be glad you did.
JSG
Description of Night of the Demons
The unrated version featuring additional gore & violence! It?s Halloween night and Angela is throwing a party, but this is no ordinary spook bash. Everybody?s headed to Hull House, a deserted funeral home with a shocking secret in its past and something evil alive in its basement. Now the guests are becoming possessed, and this party?s treats include tongue ripping, eyeball gouging, gratuitous nudity, bloody dismemberment and more. Welcome to the blowout where all hell is breaking loose. You?re invited to "Night of the Demons." Scream Queen Linnea Quigley stars in this twisted ?80s splatter-fest directed by Kevin S. Tenney (Witchboard) and featuring grisly goreeffects by Steve Johnson (Dead Heat, Species). "Night of the Demons" is presented totally uncut and uncensored and loaded with exclusive new extras for the first time ever on DVD.Bestsellers in DVD
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