Demons 2

1986 ‘Demoni 2... L'incubo ritorna’ Directed by Lamberto Bava

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.

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

Alternative Titles

Demoni due, Demoni 2, Démons 2, Dance of the Demons, Demons 2... Regresa la pesadilla, Demons 2: The Nightmare Is Back, Demons 2: The Nightmare Continues, Demons 2: The Nightmare Returns, Demons II

horror fantasy

91 mins More details at IMDb TMDb Report this film

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Review by karamashi ★★★½ 5

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!
Review by robyn ★★★★★ 3

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.
Review by belial_carboni ★★★★½ 10

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…
Review by cherryz ★★★★

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.
Review by Warp ★★½ 4

Mediocore sequel that is inferior in all aspects to the great Dèmoni. There is little or nothing to do, both in terms of film technology and entertainment value. It takes half an hour for all to break loose but even then it all remains sleep-inducing. The action scenes look lousy and the amount of rancidity was also very disappointing. The only scene worth mentioning is the one in the elevator shaft, but apart from that one scene, it isn’t really bad, but it is unworthy of the names Bava and Argento.
Review by WraithApe ★½

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.…
Review by Rafael Jovine ★★ 9

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…
Review by Biscoito18 ★★★ 2

Part of HOOPT🚨BER 7.0: “Stay Inside (the Salt Circle)!” challenge.
23/31
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"Demons 2" takes place in a residential building where a birthday party becomes a rain of acidic blood that crosses the floors, corroding everything in its path, especially the soul of those who come into contact with it. Soon a wide variety of characters are trapped in this hellish tower, in the dark and with dozens of angry demons running down the halls and tearing apart everything and everyone in front of them with their huge claws.
From "Shivers" to "Land of the Dead" I love horror movies set in apartment buildings or skyscrapers, the so-called High Rise horror movies, especially when they know how to use the…
Review by Hollie Horror ★★★ 9

I hate to start off a little blurb with my thoughts on Demons 2 this way but I don't really have a choice... I remember this movie being much better than it actually is, I always used to consider it possibly not as well-made as Demons but just as "good"/enjoyable and sadly, it's not even in the same league. There's a great soundtrack with the likes of The Smiths and The Church and I LOVED the eyes of the Demons but the movie just doesn't match the greatness of 1985's Demons. Demons 2 does not hold up nearly as well. Much like the disappointment of Evil Dead II being a rehash of Evil Dead there are many elements in Demons 2 rehashed from its predecessor the year before. I'm truly bummed out but it's still a lot of fun, mainly thanks to "Sally" played by Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni and a baby demon.
Review by Jayson Kennedy ★★½ 1

There's a far more interesting movie between Demons (1985) and this loose sequel. The outbreak is treated as a past event with activists seeking answers trespassing into a walled-off zone where the demons have been defeated. Many of their questions are ours too, but also who stopped the onslaught? How long and widespread was the battle? Why has society, as the movie puts it, "almost forgotten" about the totally unprecedented nightmare?
Instead all this is confined to an investigative report on TV watched in an apartment building. The team accidently awaken a mummified demon and it pops out of a television into the complex beginning the terror anew. A more simple set-up that could be repeated if this found box…
Review by Sally Jane Black 4

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.
Review by Bob McCully ★★★★½ 9

In the history of perfect sequels, Demons 2 remains in the top of its class.
The nightmare returns but this time in an apartment building with a whole new cast of characters watching that same cursed flick on their TV screens until the wretched beasts burst literally out of the cathode-ray tube and into their world.
This film is caked in G.O.O.P., who ever knew demons drooled so much! I guess Lamberto Bava did!
But for every drip of drool, there's as much drops of blood and explosive carnage. This thing is rammed with action, feeling like the unholy cousin of Die Hard but full of supernatural flesh-ripping instead of shadowy bullet showers.
I seriously cannot imagine a horror fan…

Recent reviews

Review by Mustafa Tikiwala ★★★½

This is some shit that would happen at 1660 iykyk.
Review by Pshepp ★★

As ridiculous and nonsensical as the whole thing is I don't think any of it is as hard to believe as people dancing to The Smiths at a party.
Review by Gabi Bronzeado ★★★

O Demons 1 consegue ser muito melhor, mas esse não deixa de ser um divertido.
Vale a pena ver!
Review by Owen Griffiths ★★½

This was an enjoyable follow-up to Demons but it sadly falls well short of the original. What’s most enjoyable in the original are the ridiculous gore set pieces. This one feels much more mild, aiming for a more family-friendly Gremlins style. It’s good, and there are still memorable effects but the original is best.
Review by Cédric Renol ★★★★

Jour 9: Italian Horror ! Demons 2 !
Dans un immeuble cossu, tout un tas de personnages sont confrontés à une invasion de démons tout droit sorti de leur écran de télé.
Ça, c'est l'horreur à l'italienne que j'aime !
Un véritable splatterfest non-sensique qui suit vaguement la logique d'un cauchemar. Le film est gore (avec maquillage old school), il est très bête et joué avec les pieds, mais qu'est-ce qu'on s'amuse.
Tout est 80s à mort (aaaah, ce groupe de bodybuilders et accros au fitness !!) et les scènes gores spectaculaires s'enchainent à un rythme effréné (le parking ! l’ascenseur !)
Et vous aurez du démon, dans toutes les tailles et toutes les formes: du chien démon, de l'enfant…
Review by Spen_Sir

This movie fucking rules
Review by jonnywhy ★

Screech
Scream
Shriek
Tiresome and obnoxious. Horrendous sound levels - had to keep the volume low enough to keep the above-mentioned noises somewhat tolerable, so at times I missed out on what I'm sure was some dynamite dialogue. Shite.
Watched on: Arrow Video channel on Amazon
Review by aarontrites ★½

Recommended for horror fans looking for 60 minutes of nonstop screaming. Worse than the original in every way.
Review by Matt Ern ★★½

They upped the ante for the sequel by turning a dog and a kid into demons
Review by hannah ★★★

yeah that’s why i’m never having kids
Review by Night of the Living Heg ★★★★½

Fuck that demon crawling down the skyscraper coming at the protagonists is everything. What a batshit and totally awesome slice of 80s Italian Horror. The Arrow Box Set is immense.
Review by Jukkaceella ★★½

Cheaper version of the first part.
Some cool demons, but that's it...