- Actors: Urbano Barberini, Natasha Hovey, Karl Zinny, Fiore Argento, Paola Cozzo
- Directors: Lamberto Bava
- Writers: Lamberto Bava, Dario Argento, Dardano Sacchetti, Franco Ferrini
- Producers: Dario Argento
- Format: Box set, PAL
- Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Number of discs: 3
- Classification: 18
- Studio: Platinum
- DVD Release Date: 1 Mar 2004
- Run Time: 88 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B0001E5SOI
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64,256 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
- #62 in Film & TV > Horror > Devils, Demons & Exorcisms
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Lamberto Bava, son of the Italian horror legend and giallo godfather Mario Bava, teamed up with modern master Dario Argent (co-writer and producer) for this slick gorefest, a triumph of style and special effects over movie logic. Set in a refurbished German movie palace, our hapless soon-to-be victims arrive for a sneak preview of a horror movie only to see the gore unfold in the audience, as well as onscreen. While the exposition remains murky, one patron finds that an infected cut leads to a gooey transformation, and every one of her victims follows suit until the snaggle-toothed monsters outnumber the humans. The survivors, trapped in the tomb of a cinema, must fend off attacks à la George Romero's Night of the Living Dead. Borrowing liberally from films such as Dawn of the Dead and The Tingler, Demons also anticipates Scream in its cinema-savvy references, not to mention its undeniably Neve Campbell-ish heroine. The blaring heavy-metal-hard-rock soundtrack and the carnival horror-house atmosphere helps remind us that this is all just stupid fun. Despite the overwhelming body count, excessive gore and rivers of green demon pus, the cartoonishly grotesque killings avoid the sadistic edge of many Italian horror films. By the climax of the film the premise is long forgotten in a ghoul apocalypse, but who's watching this for the story anyway? --Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
It IS cut,
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This review is from: Demons - The Director's Cut (Dubbed) [DVD] [1987] (DVD)
The original cuts have been restored, but NEW cuts have been made - 42 seconds to the 'cocaine sniffing off the bare breast' scene (with the puncks in the car). The violence has been restored though, it is true, still better to order the R1 of this one and the R2 of the UNCUT DEMONS 2.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A very guilty pleasure,
This review is from: Demons - The Director's Cut (Dubbed) [DVD] [1987] (DVD)
The reason I bought this film was because myself and a friend heard the song "We Close Our Eyes" by Go West and I was convinced it was from a film I'd seen in the 80's. But no matter where we looked this was the only film we could find that features the song in the soundtrack, and I knew I'd never seen it. So I bought this as a joke present for said friend. When the DVD came the case was very battered (purchased as second hand), so I decided to watch it before giving it away for fear it wouldn't play at all.
What a brilliant find! Gore upon gore upon gore, terrible acting, crazy music, cliche characters, what more could anyone want from a 1980's horror?!! I have absolutely no clue why it is dubbed, as the actors are clearly speaking English, and I'm still trying to work out how the film is Italian, set in Germany yet all of the actors are American English speaking but this just adds to the cheesy brilliance. Myself and my boyfriend laughed most of the way through this despite the gore and I have since purchased my friend a second copy and kept this one for myself. Not for the serious or hard core horror fans - if you can't look past the not so brilliant picture, terrible acting or unexplainable dubbing, steer clear. But for those with a sense of humour, a love of everything 80's and a stomach for gore made ingeniusly with rubber, this is a must in your DVD collection. And Go West don't disappoint.... "We close our eyes, we never lose again!..."
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Blame Nostradamus.,
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This review is from: Demons - The Director's Cut (Dubbed) [DVD] [1987] (DVD)
I don't know if this film is cut, uncut, edited to within an inch of its life or bludgeoned beyond recognition, all I know is that it's a bloody good film that could've only been made in the 80s.
Remember the olden days before CGI infested the cinema, when people made special effects with aid of some latex, a washing up liquid bottle and some dodgy fake gnashers, when the soundtrack was like a friday night school disco (Motley Crue, Rick Springfield, Billy Idol and even Yorkshire's finest, Saxon!) and when you could get away with a blind man having his eyes gouged out (How's about that for irony Alanis Morissette?). Having said all that, the scariest thing on the DVD is Dario Argento's haircut in the interviews, a combination of Frankenstein's Monster and 1960s Phil Spector.
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