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…

The 2018 Cult Movie Challenge
Week 52: Italian Horror Week
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Now HERE'S a movie people should see in the theater at midnight while costumed Rocky Horror Picture Show-style like characters from the film!

Cocky kids in 80's prep go out for a nice night at the movies only to discover their preppy 80's kids counterparts up on the screen would rather go for a nice night out to the graveyard. Soon the foolish trespassing actions within the film are allowing a hideous evilness to invade the theater and possess them, and even after the plug is pulled on the picture it's too late to keep the hell-sent chaos from spiraling out and engulfing all.

While I've seen films like…

#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…

"The movie's to blame for all this!"

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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…

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…

The 2018 Cult Movie Challenge
Week 52: Italian Horror Week
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Now HERE'S a movie people should see in the theater at midnight while costumed Rocky Horror Picture Show-style like characters from the film!

Cocky kids in 80's prep go out for a nice night at the movies only to discover their preppy 80's kids counterparts up on the screen would rather go for a nice night out to the graveyard. Soon the foolish trespassing actions within the film are allowing a hideous evilness to invade the theater and possess them, and even after the plug is pulled on the picture it's too late to keep the hell-sent chaos from spiraling out and engulfing all.

While I've seen films like…

Okay, horror stan confession time: I'm not quite on the giallo train like a lot of people are. My official stance is that I completely understand the films' importance to the genre, and I really admire all the visionary artists that brought to life this very specific set of ideas and aesthetics. Still, I think a lot of these films forget to have characters and sacrifice narrative and thematic cohesion for shock value and subversiveness. The few films that I've seen that challenge that notion have come from Argento, who clearly has a lot more going on in his head in terms of theme than a lot of other horror directors in any genre.

So is Demons the film that…