1985 ‘Dèmoni’ Directed by Lamberto Bava
A group of people are trapped in a West Berlin movie theater infested with ravenous demons who proceed to kill and possess the humans one-by-one, thereby multiplying their numbers.
Urbano Barberini Natasha Hovey Karl Zinny Fiore Argento Paola Cozzo Fabiola Toledo Nicoletta Elmi Stelio Candelli Geretta Geretta Bobby Rhodes Bettina Ciampolini Eliana Miglio Jasmine Maimone Marcello Modugno Peter Pitsch Lino Salemme Michele Soavi Goffredo Unger Giovanni Frezza Lamberto Bava Alex Serra Sally Day Enrica Maria Scrivano Sami Habib Ahmed Victor Beard Russel Case Paolo Corazzi Claudio Insegno Sergio Stivaletti Show All…
Dance of the Demons, Dämonen, Demoni 1, 猛鬼戲院, デモンズ, 데몬스
A moral lesson on why you should never ever ever accept free movie tickets from a fella dressed as a bootleg Phantom of the Opera.
So, what happens when a group of people including a duo of college class skipping ladies, a pair of yuppie yuppies, a young first love couple, a wise old blindman and his nymphomaniac companion, a gang of Class of 84 reject punks, and a mackdaddy pimp and his two ho's all get trapped in a movie theatre possessed by demons? Total fuckin' chaotic chaos, of course. What makes it even better? When they go from movie watchers, to demon green gooze ooze possessed. God bless, the Italians!
Lamberto Bava in the director's chair. Dario Argento…
‘They will make cemeteries their cathedrals and the cities will be your tombs.’
The perfect slice of midnight madness—Italo chaos magic courtesy of Bava and Argento that pits Unsuspecting theater goers under siege by pus dripping fluid spouting blood slathered deadite demoni. The escalation here is key, constantly one upping the over the top factor with each set piece slathered in more gore filled chaotic absurdity. Coke head punx, Tony the pimp, dump trucks of gore chunks, a slammin’ score, severed limbs, a motorcycle samurai sword carnival of blood, clawed bodies, teeth n eye trauma, and helicopters falling through ceiling.
To think this all started out as an innocent screening of what looked like Michele Soavi’s take on a Nostradamus…
Still having fun with the Last Drive-In and this is absolutely a bonkers Italian 5 star movie. It’s just nonstop ridiculousness and crazy over the top gore. It doesn’t make any sense and it peaks with a helicopter crashing into a theater so it’s just truly great. I couldn’t even begin to guess the number of times I’ve watched this.
Produced by our lord and savior Dario Argento, directed by Bava Jr, written by Dardano Sacchetti, starring a cast of Italian horror regulars as well as Argento’s other daughter Fiore, and music by everyone from Claudio Simonetti to Billy Idol. There’s just nothing here for me not to love oh so hard. And there’s an equally insane sequel!!
Bananameter: 🍌 bananas absolute 🍌
side note: JBB explaining the history of the Demons series is one of my new favorite things
"The movie's to blame for all this!"
100
A nightmare simulation, operating without error. Each choice and narrative happenstance allows for a propulsion of hopelessness. These stock characters push their way through countless obstacles. But the demons keep coming. There are no exits. The movie never stops. Any light at the end of the tunnels should be feared. No Hay Banda. Lamberto Bava has never made a better horror flick than this one - maybe because he grew up around his father (Mario Bava): genius viewed rather than experienced. As such, the silver screen is adored and trusted, and it's all too real - perfect in its gooey, neon glow, all tatted and coked up, oblivious to the past and…
maybe one day ill be able to review italian horror objectively but how am i supposed to do that when these movies are one banger after another
#15 of 31 - CINEMONSTER'S HOOPTOBER 4.0 Film Challenge
I had to chuckle at myself when the only thing I couldn't buy into in this Over-The-Top splatterfest directed by Lamberto Bava was the helicopter coming into the theater through the roof! I had no problem with people turning into demons as a result of an infection! No siree bob that didn't cause me to waiver one iota! I never flinched an inch when gratuitous gore no longer applied for it doesn't even begin to describe the unfathomable amounts of blood letting, flesh ripping carnage that was unfolding upon my screen! But throw in a helicopter crashing into the theater and I'm suffering from a terminal case of "panties in a…
Perfect choice for Halloween really. Lamberto Bava and Dario Argento's cinema-set splatterfest is a yellow-eyed, fang-bearing, pus-oozing good time! Not much in the way of plot - a frightened girl is handed a free ticket to a screening at Metropol by MF Doom's Italian cousin (played by Michele Soavi) and convinces her friend to go along too, despite her hatred of horror movies (definitely not my kinda gal!) Some other bozos show up including, belatedly, a bunch of punks in a car, snorting coke out of a Coke can (genius). When events in the theatre start mirroring what's going down on screen, it's not long before the screen is torn apart and all hell breaks loose.
Kinda surprised Romero wasn't…
Hoop-Tober, Film 9 of 31:
This was some of the most fun I've had with a horror movie in a while. It's almost as if Bava was instructed to direct as 80s of a movie as possible, and proceeded to do exactly that; it's films like these that force me to use "80s" as an adjective, ahah. Seriously though, for what it is, Demons is perfect. The score/soundtrack, the special effects, the meta aspect of film (e.g. the movie theater)... I mean, this movie seemed like it was designed specifically for horror buffs of the time - it's awesome to see a director take his audience into consideration that much during the crafting of his film. There are also moments…
ITS FRIDAY NIGHT AND IM WATCHING MODDA FUGGIN DEMONS!
First viewing on blu ray, mind exploded, body imploded, reality disintegrated, brilliantly dead.
This really is Italian horror at its finest. A perfect blend of all the ingredients that make films like this so friggin memorable. Amazing gore and practical FX, top notch score, hilarious dubbing, memorable characters and enough style to break the dial while putting a giant smile on belial!
Movie theatres are one of my top settings as far as horror films go and his could very well be the best one I've seen. The dark and creepy theatre is the perfect lurking grounds for those nasty demoni we all love and fear. They could be hiding behind…
"Demons", Lamberto Bava's magnum opus, is as straightforward with its plot as with its title. A random group of people are invited to a movie premiere and end up trapped in the theater with killer demons. And that's it!
All characters are little explored and end up defined only by their reactions, appearance and death scene. There are some conflicts that are never fully developed, such as the cheating wife, the strange theater employee who seems to know more than others but is never questioned and ends up as just another one in the crowd, the strange room found behind a wall that seems to emit sounds that confuse the people inside it and the punks who spend a good…
Herrlich matschiger Italo-Horror mit noch herrlicherem Soundtrack, der sich seine Reputation erarbeitet und verdient, die Dämonisierung Berlins bereits 1985 vorausgeahnt hat und jetzt gerade völlig uncut auf Netflix erhältlich ist. Schnell zugreifen, wird nicht lange so sein.
Update, 2 Tage später: ... and it's gone.
just when you think this can't get any better mans got a motorbike and a samurai sword.
