Asia Argento, Bobby Rhodes, Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni

Demons emerge from a TV set and massacre all the inhabitants of a building except a young couple.

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Unrated, 1 hr. 28 min.

Directed by: Lamberto Bava

Release Date: February 1, 1987

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DVD Release Date: March 29, 2005

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  • May 21, 2008
    I actually like this one better than the first Demons, because I think Bava is allowed more freedom and expression on his set. The plot may start slow and unsteady, but once the gore kicks in, this movie moves at the perfect pace for horror. I love the strong tone of trapped dens...( read more)e panic in the garage scene. This scene feels more realistic than Demons, as realistic as giallo is allowed to be .
  • August 13, 2007
    Okay, first of all, anybody who is expecting The English Patient from a movie called "Demons 2" will be sorely disappointed. This is an 80s low-budget Italian horror movie and as such has serious plot, dubbing and acting problems. That said, this is actually a very good movie for...( read more) the genre.

    The connection to the original movie is a bit blurry but it does try to connect the two together. Apparently somebody made a movie about the first incident, and it is this movie that "infects" a new building filled with badly-dubbed Italian actors.

    The make-up effects are quite good, and the demons pretty unsettling. I'd say this movie is on par with the original Demons (largely because it is almost exactly the same movie). This is a pretty brutal movie. None of the humorous subtext that you'd find in the "Nightmare on Elm Street" sequels, "Scream" or most other modern horror movies. Nope. Just a bunch of people desperately fighting to survive, and not doing a very good job of it. They aren't all stupid either....they do try. Unfortunately the screenwriters arranged it so that all the windows are unbreakable, and the electric doors unable to be opened.

    The movie also breaks some horror movie taboos as children were surprisingly made into victims.

    On a lighter note, I would also say that this is the first horror movie I have ever seen (barring Antichrist/Second Coming films)in which a character goes into labor while fighting demons.

    An entertaining horror movie.....Never looked at my watch once
  • July 10, 2007
    Not as great as the original "Demons" movie, this one has demons attacking people at a highrise apartment building with no escape for them. It all starts with a wild birthday cake scene and a weird demon movie playing on all the televisions. It has very dim lighting. There's a fu...( read more)nny underground parkade battle with the Demons. I wasn't too much into this one.
  • September 13, 2006
    Nowhere near as good as the original, it is still good (and it's got a young Asia Argento in it.)
  • November 13, 2009
    Dario Argento is the true king of horror. Technically, he doesn't direct this one but he does everything else and probably even made the tea. It is inferior to the original, it is also, in truth, a "zombie" movie, and the ending is a cop out. Yet even taking all that into consid...( read more)eration, it's still better, more imaginative, and more gore-soaked than most of the stuff Hollywood churns out nowadays.
  • November 4, 2009
    lame sequel to another rather lame movie to begin with.
  • November 1, 2009
    Effects are perfectly done and there are some genuine creepy moments and though this takes a turn out of slasher territory like the first one and becomes somewhat of a more thriller it's still kind of boring and some sequences are drawn out so long that by the time they're over t...( read more)he movie is almost over too (the whole parking garage scene...my god) and many of the throwback gags to the first one felt too forced rather than effectively adding any new ideas to what's already there (like that little baby demon that hops out of the little kid) but overall not a bad sequel, watchable and enjoyable.
  • September 8, 2009
    Very low budget, low quality special effects, terrible acting, and not very probable...these all should spell "Bad Movie". But, for Night of the Demons, I'll make an exception. This movie isn't "so bad its good". I hate that philosophy, and I will never use that for a movie. If i...( read more)ts "so bad" then it really is "so bad", not "good".
  • September 7, 2009
    I kind of wish they would of continued off the original Demoni and still had the demon invasion going on. In this part, it follows the same routine, but in an apartment building. You even have some of the same actors returning. The pimp in Demoni who took control of...( read more) the situation is now playing a workout instructer here. His character is once again taking over leadership in the garage they're now holed up in. These people appear to be a little more intelligent than the ones trapped in the movie theater. Minus more women having nervous breakdowns. Which kind of gets annoying after awhile. The demon child looks a lot better than it's older counterparts. But, I think they should of left out the gremlin coming out of his body. The demon makeup is also presented better as is the gore. Much better than Demoni. We also get introduced to another Ash-like (The Evil Dead) hero as well. It's like these guys are undercover green berets or something.
  • July 10, 2009
    just as good as the first one.i loved it.more gory then the first one.it starts slow at first but once the gore starts it doesn't stop.other then the fact that i don't see how the demon could come from the tv(is there a message there somewhere?lol)it is worth watching by any horr...( read more)or fan.

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