good fx, lousy movie

Incoherent, poorly acted, dated soundtrack (not really a valid complaint, though), special effects were cool, production value was usually pretty high. Not quite worth it, but nowhere near as terrible as it should have been, Argento's fingerprints are obvious enough to at least soften the hammy blows of Bava the Lesser's directing.

Completely indefensible and utterly moronic trash. This film appeals to the lowest, crudest part of the filmgoing public, with its incessant, ludicrous desire to shock and appall. There is literally nothing herein of cinematic worth or merit, rather it's a bottomless pit of depravity, idiocy, sophomoric action and witless horror. A film for drooling, tasteless cretins. All in all, highly watchable.

Awful, except for the special effects (which are beauutiful).

Dire.

If you cannot stand (intentional?) plot holes, excessive gore effects, the type of English dubbing associated with Italian genre films or 80s metal, avoid this. If you like any of these factors, then this is a very silly film which succeeds because it makes these aspects work within it (the metal soundtrack is perfect, which cannot be said for screenwriter Argento's own films from the mid-80s). Its trashy, but its trash that was crafted with some skill, which puts it over a lot of genre cinema.

easily superior to it's peers, but i still maintain that the italian horror directors to come out of the 70's and 80's had only one good card in their deck, and that's the fact that they can create some fine gore. so it's a decent supernatural gore-fest with some demons for garnish. who doesn't like demons as garnish?

Some decent gore but too empty to be genuinely entertaining.

Not very scary and another obviously set in the 80s flick, almost completely over the top. Some pretty good creature and gore effects but it's slow and not that exciting for most of it.

Argento produced and co-wrote this stylish but only partly successful mix of _The Evil Dead_ and _The Purple Rose of Cairo_. Clever and gripping for its first two-thirds, this loses it in a succession of increasingly annoying false climaxes.

movie's fun as shit, and has some of the most impressive makeup effects I've ever seen. and, y'know, I can't imagine the budget was very high, so that's sayin' something. fantastic ending too.

Silly and over the top, but honestly I wasn't that amused by it. Maybe I was too tired when I saw it, but it put me to sleep. I imagine this would be more fun to watch with a whole bunch of people (preferably horror buffs) than by yourself late at night.

Wow. This movie's plot is absolutely random. Ridiculous.

Pretty good gore, some good photography and a few great scenes mostly make up for the rest of this movie being laughable. The punks and their "Coke" was my favourite.

Movie's fucking retarded, but it has a mad pimp and neat effects.

Good score but gets progressively more incoherent as it goes along

Nice

Gore-filled horror, derivative of modern American zombie movies.

Produced and coscripted by Argento, this attempts to exploit every fear-film fan's fondest paranoid fantasy. Imbued with the wit of a George Romero or Larry Cohen, this might have emerged as a splendid blend of blood and black humor, sort of a splatter version of _The Purple Rose of Cairo_. In Bava's heavier hands, this ultimately degenerates into a mondo disgusto FX exercise, albeit a well-wrought one.

What a horny and cheap movie... Luckily, they couldn't rape the demons... Haha!

hell yeah

it's ridiculous but it's also really fun. The pimp dude ruled the school.

Entertaining.