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| Demons
Year: 1986
Directed:
- Lamberto Bava
Actors/Actresses:
- Urbano Barberini
- Natasha Hovey
Get your vomit-bags ready!
Ok ok... the plot is fine but not incredible, the acting is shocking, the special effects are ridiculous if compared to today...why 5 stars then? IT'S TOTAL FUN! When a prostitute hurts herself with a mask exposed inside an old - fashioned, gloomy cinema in Germany, she realizes something unbelievable: the actors in the movie she is watching hurt themselves with the same mask, turning in a couple of minutes into horrible, blood-thirsty demons...<BR>The atmosphere is claustrophobic, blood and insides are not left hidden, everybody is everybody's enemy...one bite is enough...to turn your friend into a demon. Apocalyptical ending. Great experience.<BR>The film has a widescreen presentation (1.66:1) in English DS 5.1, always clean and almost flawless. Exhaustive audio commentary by Lamberto Bava, Sergio Stivaletti (special effects) and journalist Loris Curci. The extra features comprise a behind-the-scene segment and a theatrical trailer. Two thumbs up for Anchor Bay. Pick it up, it's total entertainment!
Fine Italian Horror
As a big fan of zombie movies, such as George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead series, I enjoyed "Demons" a great deal. You don't see horror movies of this caliber in today's cinema. This movie has it all, from suspense and gore, to pimps and some old guy who keeps telling other people in the movies to shut up. The special effects are great as is the music. It features "white wedding" from Billy Idol, and the theme from the movie is some italian guy playing new wave music yelling "demon!" If you like real deal horror movies...check out Demons.
Extremely well-crafted Italian horror
DEMONS is an exceptional example of the best work of Lamberto Bava and Dario Argento. Better directed than any of Bava's other efforts and not so obtuse as many of Argento's films, DEMONS is a tight film, simple in concept, and genuinely terrifying.<BR> <BR> DEMONS revolves around a simple, standard zombie film plot; a group of people are trapped in an enclosed space with one who has become a zombie (or demon) and fight to stay alive as more and more of them are infected. This film effectively marries surprise scares (you know - when someone jumps out when you least expect it) and pure gore. There's plenty of the latter, being an Argento production, but the whole thing is so over the top that it's all in good fun.<BR> <BR> The film comes dangerously close to camp toward the end as the protagonists are blessed with a ridiculous turn of events that help them to avoid certain death, and it's hard for the viewer to keep from asking obvious questions like "how did that helicopter crash through the roof intact?" and "how does he know how that helicopter operates?" and "where did the grappling hook and climbing gear come from?"<BR> <BR> The end of the film, however, redeems any of its weaknesses as it keeps with the zombie film tradition of genuine hopelessness. Overall, a very well made film considering its foreign origins and the general quality of other horror films in the mid-80s.
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