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

Dance of the demons, Démons 2, Demoni 2, Demoni due

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 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 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 🚫matthew🚫 ★★★★ 4

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I watched the recent-ish Synapse Blu-ray projected onto a screen over 100 inches in size. You can see a pic if you click that above link.
While the first Demons might have a better plot, the second Demons is my fav for two distinct reasons: 1) the post-punk soundtrack and 2) Bava's direction is at its best. There's so much to recommend in terms of visuals, and the new Synapse Blu-ray helps so much: the colours, the lighting (which is impeccable), the cutting, the production design, everything. This is one of those films where the story is fairly inconsequential but the visuals are so striking and alluring that one can't help but watch. It's not The Church, which is that dynamic taken to its Italian horror extreme, but it certainly comes close.
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…

Recent reviews

Review by Noah Wilson ★★★

Demons is exactly the sort of movie that lends itself to the 'do it again but bigger and dumber' sequel treatment. That said, this didn't quite live up to my expectations as it was pretty stylistically inconsistent and the gore wasn't quite as effective as in the first film. There were still several great sequences, and I was certainly never bored, but this isn't gonna be one I'm rewatching years down the line.
Review by Justin Kirby ★★★★

Pretty good but not great
Review by keegan hughes ★★★

It’s like Demons, but 2!
This is basically Gremlins 2, but with less attitude. And I guess Demons 2 came out first, so we’ve got to assume it inspired the creation of a second Mogwai feature.
Don’t double-feature Demons + Demons 2, it’s a lot for one night. Maybe mix it up with Demon Wind or something.
Review by Mat Brewster ★★★

Feels less like a sequel than a reboot or reimagining. The plot is basically the same - a random bunch of folk watch a movie and get turned into killer demons who then run amok in an enclosed space. The space has moved from a movie theater to an apartment complex but pretty much everything else is the same.
This time the movie is playing on TV which most of the apartment dwellers are watching. The movie within a movie acts like a sequel to Demons, or maybe it's a based-on-reality type thing. I'm not sure whether Demons the real movie is supposed to have happened in real life in this sequel or if it was just a movie. Whatever,…
Review by jodai_dunbnt ★★★★

I enjoy a good ball-rip in a movie
Review by Keith Cameron ★★½

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

I found myself wondering, when the pregnant woman is getting attacked by the demon child who gives birth to a demon baby that then starts making obnoxious high pitch noises until the woman is rescued by a big strong man, are they trying to make a point against single mothers? Is this movie low-key right wing propaganda?
I am pleased that I found myself wondering this not because I love when movies have bad messages but because although this thing is very easy to sit through since it looks fast, moves pretty, and is unintentionally hilarious with alarming frequency; it really does leave you with nothing the seconds the credits roll, and adding republican subtext to any movie makes it far scarier. These movies also make for easy covid allegories, what with the dangers found in large groups of people. Pick your political allegory grab some unhealthy snacks and go to town.
Review by HHREVIEW Frank ★★★

Imagine being the dude that was told to wait outside through the whole movie. Not only did mans miss seeing his buddies turn into blood thirsty demons, he also witnessed his other homie get in a car crash. Classic.
Review by Bob Boddingham ★★★½

Just about as absolutely bonkers and frenetic as the first film, perhaps it doesn’t fully capture the magic but it comes pretty close.

P.S. They bring Bobby Rhodes BACK as a new character, and once again he’s excellent.
Review by bianka ★★★½

sometimes self care is watching a movie about demons causing havoc in an apartment building.