Synopsis
The Nightmare Returns.
A group of tenants and visitors are trapped in a 10-story high-rise apartment building infested with demons who proceed to hunt the dwindling humans down.
1986 ‘Demoni 2... L'incubo ritorna’ Directed by Lamberto Bava
A group of tenants and visitors are trapped in a 10-story high-rise apartment building infested with demons who proceed to hunt the dwindling humans down.
David Edwin Knight Nancy Brilli Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni Bobby Rhodes Asia Argento Virginia Bryant Anita Bartolucci Antonio Cantafora Luisa Passega Davide Marotta Marco Vivio Michele Mirabella Lorenzo Gioelli Lino Salemme Maria Chiara Sasso Dario Casalini Eliana Miglio Yvonne Fraschetti Bruno Bilotta Lamberto Bava Stefano Molinari Giovanna Pini Pascal Persiano Fabio Poggiali Lorenzo Flaherty Marina Loi Ettore Martini
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COME ON DOWN TO BAVA & ARGENTO'S DISCOUNT DEMON SEQUELS! THESE ARE QUALITY SHOT DEMONS! YOU CAN'T EVEN TELL ITS A SEQUEL!
WE HAVE ALL KINDS OF DEMONS! TV DEMONS! BIRTHDAY DEMONS! CHILD DEMONS! DOG DEMONS! BODYBUILDER DEMONS! DEMONS COMING OUT OF OTHER DEMONS! BABY DEMON--OH WAIT, SCRATCH THAT, NO BABY DEMONS! INSTEAD WE'LL THROW IN SUB-PLOTS THAT LEAD TO NOWHERE AND THEMES OF ENCLOSING MODERNIZATION!
WHAT MORE COULD YOU WANT FROM A DEMONS SEQUEL?!
SO COME ON DOWN! WE GUARANTEE A SUB-PREMIUM DEMONS SEQUEL OR WE'LL RIDE OUT THIS FRANCHISE UNTIL YOU FUCKERS HAVE TROUBLE DISTINGUISHING WHICH IS AN ACTUAL SEQUEL OR NOT!
Soft blue lighting, neon signs, 80s workout gear, wee bastard creatures, great special effects - it's basically my checklist for a SUPER GOOD GREAT FILM.
🇮🇹 Italian Horror 🧟♂️ Undead etc. 🎬 Lamberto Bava (1986) 🩸 👻 [🇮🇹☠️]
"Blood nurtures the dormant seed of evil. How can the demons be stopped? Is another apocalyptic prediction about to come true? The winds of death will sweep across the world, and whole continents will be cast adrift in oceans of blood.”
Demoni 2 is the Evil Dead Rise of Italian mass demonic possession horror: an ancient evil; a brand new ten-story high-rise; 90 minutes of family-destroying violence.
It is very good—one of those lucky sequels that surpasses the original in many ways while adding a few small flaws. I’d hesitate to say that it’s better because it follows exactly the same formula. But it was a good…
FRIDAY NIGHT CONTINUES WITH ONE OF THE BEST FUGGIN SEQUELS IN THE UNIVERSE YOU BETTER BELIEVE IM WATCHING DEMONS 2!
A near perfect sequel that captures a lot of the magical chaos of the first Demons. And this time it takes place in a freakin apartment building! Which happens to be my 2nd favourite setting for a horror film right after a movie theatre. So naturally these films cater to my every desire. Of locations. There's just something extra claustrophobic and isolating about being trapped in a building with a bunch of insane demons on the loose!
Leave it to our Demoni jerks to crash one of the most happening parties ever! I would totally go to that party. Drink…
A movie theater, by definition, is cinematic.
Here are some places that are
not as cinematic as a movie theater:
- Parking garage
- Gym
- Elevator
- Apartment buildings
Like a faded Xerox copy of the original movie, set in a nondescript apartment block rather than the distinctive Metropol. Bava and Argento try to bottle and sell lightning twice, but it really doesn't work - the whole point of the first film was the idea of the film coming to life for the audience, not just random fodder in a random location. Broadcast TV in an apartment block just ain't the same.
The acting, which hardly pulled up any trees in the first film, is positively dendritic this time round. David Edwin Knight is a charisma vacuum in the lead role, Bobby Rhodes returns, inexplicably reincarnated as a gym instructor and Asia Argento appears courtesy of daddy's production pull.…
This sequel was rushed out following the success of Demons the previous year. The action is relocated from a cinema to an apartment building. Much of the atmosphere of the original is lost, but the film makes up for it with a plethora of demonic mayhem. The film spends a little time setting up it's various groups - an eighties party, a bunch of gym bros, an expectant family etc - before unleashing the demons from a TV broadcast. The sequel really riffs on the original, with the central aspect of a bunch of characters trapped in the main location making up the central core of film. It's all about the special effects really and Demons 2 really plays with…
"Demons 2" is a 1986 film directed by Lamberto Bava. Following up from the full charge that is "Demons" (1985), "Demons 2" was released a year later. Before the onset of the first film, there was a planned trilogy of things, after the first film was completed, work on "Demons 2" immediately followed about half a year's time later. You can easily see that with the pace that was kept, "Demons 2" is very much carried on in repetition of things from the first. It's sequentially a sequel in title only, really just being another inserted story in the vein of things but in an apartment complex rather than the movie theater in the first film. Additionally, as I used…
September 20, 1975 Asia Argento was born. We will watch a horror movie that she was in.
Partyyyyyyyy!!!!
I'm glad Sally got out of her grump and went birthday bananas!
I'll never be able to blow out candles on a cake again without demon smiling rrrrrrhhhhaaarrrrr!!!!!
The music is on point, the groups of people in the apartment block, leotards, gym bunnies, a dog, and the kid even gets into the party mood. What a great watch.
When one enters a horror film, one shouldn't never going in expecting a great amount of logic. Its known by now (especially on the 80s and 90s) horror movie, characters will be doing some of the lamest and stupidest decisions, even if they have to come up with them. And you know what, I get it and I don't have too much issue with that.
What I do have problem with is the fact that the whole film is built under a level of conveniences that's just plain down offensive. Like, ok, you are in a luxurious building with windows unable to open because the bulletproofed? Like where did I miss the memo we were in Oakland or Detroit? And…
The effects, the makeup, the gore are all delightfully excessive. It doesn't pull many punches (the dog and the kid get turned into demons!). And there's a scene where body builders rally heroically only to be decimated. I mean, this is quality stupidity.
So, where to begin? This was shot in Hamburg, yet people are called Sally or George and they speak Italian. Also, for some reason the apartment building looks like an office complex. And as if this didn't already make me go cross-eyed, I learned afterwards that what I thought to be the first Demons, was actually Demons 2 because they switched titles for German distribution. Obviously.
Either way, I loved it. Demons 2 had a feel of childlike imagination to it. The movie is mostly just things happening, but it's one amazing thing per minute. The inciding incident is a demon from a movie coming out of the TV screen, then there's a demon dog named Devil and athletes fighting…