kathryn-fulton25 After numerous friends telling me how great this Halloween flick was, I checked on IMDb to see its rating. With a score of 6.3, I assumed that it must be pretty darn good. I was wrong. Sooooooooo wrong! As I began to endure this exercise in horrible acting, horrible directing, horrible script writing, and not great special effects, I began to wonder if it was the wrong movie. I paused the movie and asked fellows horror fiends, and found out no it was the movie that they had raved of to me. I continued to watch this until about the hour mark hoping it would get better. But noooooooo it did not! I finally turned this mess off. I'm so confused as to how anyone with horror chops could find this some masterpiece? I warn you my friends to skip this one! It's badddddddddd on every level. I've seen better acting and scripts in cat food commercials. It's that bad.

zerocool-81367 I saw this movie when i was 14 or 15 in 1989. the only reason i watched it was because i liked the poster with the demonic Angela on it. and it saying freddy and jason are to scared to come. if it wasn't for that i probably would have passed it up. i loved this film and i am not into horror movies to much. just fantastic especially angelas dancing scene where towards the end you can see her warp from one point to the other a few different times. i thought that was really bad ass. i forgot about this movie for many years and recently came across it. i didn't care for the next 2 films that much and really hated the 2009 remake. angela was my favorite character but wasn't thrilled with the way she looked in the next 2 films. this movie had me into it from beginning to end. if you watch it try to get the unrated version. the added scenes might not be that much but if you see the unrated 1st then the r rated next,the way it just cuts off from a couple of scenes seems stupid. just as i do bad santa (unrated of course) i will be watching this one every halloween from now on.

Percystarter Fantastic graphics at the beginning. Really got me in the mood to become frightened. Making the evil dead concept into perfection. Emotional roller-coaster. Cast - wow! Quentin Tarantino must have been involved in the dialogue writing. "Eat a bowl of f***! I am here to party!" Brilliant! Haha, so playful, and comedic too. The characters were very believable. I got really attached to the character Stooge. His death had me in tears. The sound technician made a great job. One time a door closed and the music stopped. So dramatic! The soundtrack is still up to date. I listen to it when I go to work. Perfect cure for the case of the mondays. Nice with the acoustic sound. Better than the modern CGB (computer generated baloney). I wish someone would have showed me this movie during the most difficult times of my life. The ending was bittersweet, sweet because i learnt about morals and bitter because it was over.

ttron2000 the 80s were bombarded with moody horror flicks loaded with gruesome blood and gratuitous nudity and while there are some better than others, Night of the Demons got plenty of rewatch value out of me during my teens and now, upon its blu-ray release, i can't help but rekindle my love of this excellent crap. the nostalgia alone keeps me longing for the days when horror was at its peak and not marred by a limp PG13 rating or the lame prospect of a remake. this was remade a few years ago to shoddy effect, which only raises the value of this fun original. a ghost story that sticks to an old-school formula that's seemingly extinct today, it's mixture of dark fun and blood thirst brings out the best in any horror fan. from its animated opening titles segueing into the spooky, yet serene atmosphere, landing right on top of its monkey pit variety of characters, it's got a little bit of everything that should help any viewer smile once or twice. it's Halloween night and at the invitation of goth fox Angela (Amelia Kinkade), a small group of teens have gathered to party the night away at the infamous Hull House, a long abandoned mortuary with a scary presence and an even scarier past. you'd think there would be safer and more productive ways to spend Halloween in the name of fun. but not these morons. the line-up of victims consists of your garden variety of misfits that have become routine for every standard horror flick: there's Judy (Cindy Podewell), your obligatory, adorable, blonde sweetheart; frightened Rodger (Alvin Alexis), who's the first to sense something's wrong; Stooge, (Hal Havins) the loud-mouthed jerk; Helen (Allison Barron), she who's easily bored by Stooge's abrasive attitude; Sal (William Gallo), the immature prankster/party crasher; Suzanne (Linnea Quigley), Angela's sexpot best friend; Jay (Lance Fenton), Judy's lecherous preppie date, and cute couple Max (Phillip Tanzini) and Frannie (Jill Terashita). some seem nice enough, some (like Stooge) are just asking for it. sure, there's drinking and partying and cavorting, but when Angela and the crowd participate in an amateur séance, they awake the evil scariness within the frightening structure and that's when things get nasty. one by one, the teens become demon-fleshed ghouls, either mauled or possessed by the demonic beasts, while the untouched aim to escape with their lives. delivering on all fronts, Night of the Demons was brought to life by 80s horror director Kevin Tenney (Witchboard), who could be the one guy who paid attention when taking in the calm chilling mood of John Carpenter's Halloween. alongside Halloween and Michael Dougherty's Trick R Treat, this is one movie that best captures the stillness of Halloween, the darkness enveloping you in autumn night feel. yeah, it maybe lightweight in the acting department, but some manage to add a little to their craft. Kinkade has an insane sexy dance number to Bauhaus's "Stigmata Martyr" and Quigley, in all her naked goodness, has fun creeping out the masses while locked in her seduction mode. but people don't watch horror movies for the performances. they go for the jumps and the carnage and Night of the Demons effortlessly provides both. even if you get that "been-there/done-that" feeling, you'll at least enjoy the ride. by no means is it the best of anything and the ending's a little simple, but it's definitely one for autumn season. that's right, loyal horror fans, this is a blast.