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Lamberto Bava and Dario Argento bring you THE Gonzo Horror movie of the 1980s with Demons, a frenzied slice of gore heavy shock cinema that gives up on logic and instead assaults the screen with a riot of X-Rated violence, face chewing Zombies and pounding Heavy Metal.
In a mysterious cinema, an audience are watching a brutal horror flick when the horror rips out of the screen, unleashing a swarm of slathering Demons who are intent on spreading their evil plague across the globe.
Time to tool up and take no prisoners... The Demons are coming!
The Guardian
Best label 2011
Arrow
"It's often the smaller-funded labels that do the best work. Arrow has released marvellous discs of many of cinema's classics, such as Bicycle Thieves, Rififi and Les Diaboliques, but it's for their horror releases that they truly excel. The more respectable directors like George A Romero and Dario Argento get their due here, but Arrow also pull out all the stops for such (unfairly) lesser regarded Gore-teurs as Lucio Fulci and Frank Henenlotter. Blu-rays of Fulci classics The Beyond and City Of The Living Dead show that the films are far more atmospheric and better made than they ever appeared before, and for Henenlotter (with the imminent Frankenhooker disc) you get extensive extras that cover the rarely examined scene of low-budget New York film-makers and the lost grindhouses of Times Square and 42nd Street".
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"Gorehounds will be kept very happy" --Film4.com
"Niftily nastly slice 'n' dice" --Time Out
"Demons is probably Lamberto's best film, not because it approaches Mario's work, but because it's so ludicrously entertaining" --Combustible Celluloid
"Niftily nastly slice 'n' dice" --Time Out
"Demons is probably Lamberto's best film, not because it approaches Mario's work, but because it's so ludicrously entertaining" --Combustible Celluloid
"Niftily nastly slice 'n' dice" --Time Out
"Demons is probably Lamberto's best film, not because it approaches Mario's work, but because it's so ludicrously entertaining" --Combustible Celluloid
"Niftily nastly slice 'n' dice" --Time Out
"Demons is probably Lamberto's best film, not because it approaches Mario's work, but because it's so ludicrously entertaining" --Combustible Celluloid
"Niftily nastly slice 'n' dice" --Time Out
"Demons is probably Lamberto's best film, not because it approaches Mario's work, but because it's so ludicrously entertaining" --Combustible Celluloid
"Niftily nastly slice 'n' dice" --Time Out
"Demons is probably Lamberto's best film, not because it approaches Mario's work, but because it's so ludicrously entertaining" --Combustible Celluloid
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Well.........what can I say that has not been said by a previous reviewer Demons is a great movie what annoys me is that Arrow have put this and part 2 on ho ld so many times I have given up on this title
Demons and Demons 2 were meant to have been released last year 2010 and now Amazon informs us it won't be availible maybe some time next april?
Demons and Demons 2 were meant to have been released last year 2010 and now Amazon informs us it won't be availible maybe some time next april?
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
As my title suggests, I found this to be a film of two parts. I watched it on the good old horror channel last night, and 40 minutes in I was hooked.Then the rot set in.
A bunch of people are given complimentary tickets to a film theatre (an ominous looking Metropole). One of their number tries on a silver devil mask. It scratches her, and you just know that no good will come of it.And it doesn't! She transforms into a flesh eating demon.Meanwhile, the audience in the theatre find that the film they are watching pretty much equates to events happening to THEM. Lots of blood, flesh eating, screaming and panic.So far, so good. If you like this sort of thing you'll love it. To an extent, so did I.But then it just gets a bit silly. Definitely OTT. Picture this - A couple trying to escape the cinema are trapped in a room. The roof starts to collapse. Why? Because a helicopter is falling through it - as they do. (you later see that the roof is about two feet of reinforced concrete. That is one heavy helicopter) Our hero, who looks about 18, manages to start it up!!! and the rotor blades decapitate a bunch of former patrons, now zombified. It wont fly (they missed a trick there) but said hero has no trouble sorting out its winch equipment in about 10 seconds flat, and winching the pair of them up to "safety"
At this point I firmly believed the director was having us on. But no, the sombre ending showed he was deadly serious.
If you like the output of this particuler Italian director, then you probably wont be disappointed. He doesn't shrink from massive outpourings of blood and guts, but also doesn't give any sort of rationale for what's happening.
I KNOW you have to take these pics with a pinch of salt, but there should be SOME explanation, however asinine for the events being portrayed.
I'd watch it again - for about 40 minutes.
A bunch of people are given complimentary tickets to a film theatre (an ominous looking Metropole). One of their number tries on a silver devil mask. It scratches her, and you just know that no good will come of it.And it doesn't! She transforms into a flesh eating demon.Meanwhile, the audience in the theatre find that the film they are watching pretty much equates to events happening to THEM. Lots of blood, flesh eating, screaming and panic.So far, so good. If you like this sort of thing you'll love it. To an extent, so did I.But then it just gets a bit silly. Definitely OTT. Picture this - A couple trying to escape the cinema are trapped in a room. The roof starts to collapse. Why? Because a helicopter is falling through it - as they do. (you later see that the roof is about two feet of reinforced concrete. That is one heavy helicopter) Our hero, who looks about 18, manages to start it up!!! and the rotor blades decapitate a bunch of former patrons, now zombified. It wont fly (they missed a trick there) but said hero has no trouble sorting out its winch equipment in about 10 seconds flat, and winching the pair of them up to "safety"
At this point I firmly believed the director was having us on. But no, the sombre ending showed he was deadly serious.
If you like the output of this particuler Italian director, then you probably wont be disappointed. He doesn't shrink from massive outpourings of blood and guts, but also doesn't give any sort of rationale for what's happening.
I KNOW you have to take these pics with a pinch of salt, but there should be SOME explanation, however asinine for the events being portrayed.
I'd watch it again - for about 40 minutes.
Demons is a very cool and very unique horror movie from 1985, its not often a movie gets over run by demons, its usually zombies or vampires!! The story is weird but very cool and is set in a strange movie theatre were demons come to life just like in the movie showing in the theatre, its all top budget for the time with awesome make-up effects and bloody gore everywhere!! If you love horror then this is a must in your collection, the picture on the bluray looks really good as it has been mastered in Hidef and there is some cool features, the perfect package and a great resurrection of a cult 80s movie.
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WHAT IS GOING ON??
What is hapining hear with the release date of demons and demons 2? they where to be realesed last year and now where waiting until april?? Read more
Published 5 months ago by D.MCCARTON
ONE OF THE BEST 80'S HORROR FILMS!
DEMONS WAS RELEASED IN THE MID 80'S AT A TIME WHEN HORROR FILMS WERE JUST PAST THERE BEST AND ALL THE EARLY 80'S HORROR HITS WERE NOW MOSTLY FORGOTTEN. Read more
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