Demons
1985
Suspense/Thriller, Horror
1h 28m
A group of people are trapped in a large West Berlin movie theater infected by ravenous demons whom proceed to kill and posses the humans one-by-one thereby multiplying their numbers. (imdb)
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Demons
1985
Suspense/Thriller, Horror
1h 28m
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Avg Percentile 47.61% from 541 total ratings
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Rated 10 May 2020
80
77th
Sitting here in the theatre lobby eying the samurai armour riding a dirt bike brandishing a sword display Paul Blart III is going to rule. The fun pimp that takes his best hos to outings as a treat. I’m the king of inviting girls over and putting on a movie and it’ll be something like Demons and baby I’ll find the foot that goes into this disgusting slipper.
Rated 10 May 2020
Rated 15 Dec 2017
70
65th
The demons come up from hell and the deus ex machina falls from the sky (roof). Who had the worse experience though, the people killed and transformed into demons in this movie, or me sitting with a bunch of uninterested teenagers on their phones at a showing of The Snowman?
Rated 15 Dec 2017
Rated 24 Apr 2016
70
48th
Very insane mid-80's gore-fest. Effects & concept are great but any references to plot or logic seem entirely accidental. Throws everything at the screen in a highly random but quite lovely way. Despite the considerable splatter angle I really wouldn't recommend it for a general audience. As crazy as it sounds the real way to enjoy this schlock is as a shoddy piece of pulp-drenched conceptual art with surreal deconstructive appetite & meta-cognitive references to genre mechanics ...ok I was high
Rated 24 Apr 2016
Rated 01 Nov 2015
65
51st
It's another one of those goofy and stupid Italian horror flicks from the 80's with awesome gore and laughable everything else. You either like it or you don't. This Bava/Argento collaboration features a pair of prostitutes turning into demons and ripping apart a theater full of people watching a horror movie. That's pretty meta for its time.
Rated 01 Nov 2015
Rated 08 Jan 2008
64
42nd
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.
Rated 08 Jan 2008
Rated 25 Oct 2010
66
61st
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.
Rated 25 Oct 2010
Rated 26 Mar 2017
63
38th
A post-modern, post-giallo for the post-Mulvey era. It's so self-aware, there is a blind film fan named Herzog who calls attention to the inherent spirituality of the movie theater (and only that after getting his blind eyes poked out.) So even in this goofy slime, it's meta tendencies in breaking the fourth wall take on more than a few amusing meanings. Would make a great companion piece to The Church. Also, it's mildly racist.
Rated 26 Mar 2017
Rated 31 May 2014
59
33rd
Barely comprehensible schlocker, with some classic 80s-style gore, dress-sense and music (Go West, Motley Crue, Billy Idol??!!). The wonderful character of Tony the pimp, brought to life by Bobby Rhodes (tremendously dubbed in the version I saw), made all of this nonsense worthwhile. Despite its flaws, Demons is actually quite a lot of fun, but this is probably one for genre aficionados only.
Rated 31 May 2014
Rated 26 Mar 2009
63
21st
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.
Rated 26 Mar 2009
Rated 07 Oct 2011
80
78th
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.
Rated 07 Oct 2011
Rated 15 Jul 2017
75
75th
The entertaining mix of cheesy 80's schlock, a few so-bad-its-good moments and some decent gore make this Italian horror movie a fun time for genre fans. Full of memorable characters like the cocaine cavalry punks, the creepy blind guy, the phantom of the theater, hysterical women, or the original demon "Rick James" and her P.I.M.P. General himself, Tony. Besides the cast of characters the movie has some genuinely interesting ideas and shots to go along with a rockin' 80's soundtrack.
Rated 15 Jul 2017
Rated 02 Dec 2010
66
23rd
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.
Rated 02 Dec 2010
Rated 16 Sep 2017
43
37th
Essentially a tech reel for Lamberto Bava, it's just got silly gore effects. Thing is, if I don't care about the characters, and you aren't shooting any of the gore-stuff in a cool and interesting way, it's as interesting and compelling as a guided tour through Stan Winston's creature shop. It also ends about 5 minutes too late; the rooftop reveal was all we needed, not some random gunbunny race into the night ending.
Rated 16 Sep 2017
Rated 20 Jun 2010
50
34th
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.
Rated 20 Jun 2010
Rated 20 Oct 2011
43
22nd
It's all about Tony the Pimp.
Rated 20 Oct 2011
Rated 22 Sep 2015
40
19th
Some decent if dated gore effects paired with a lame poorly acted story filled with 80s rock music. makes me think of what would happen if you crossed the movie "Prince of Darkness" with Michael Jackson's Thriller.
Rated 22 Sep 2015
Rated 02 Apr 2021
68
55th
It's like Bava Jr started out wanting to make a classic Italian horror movie, and then halfway into the movie a time traveller showed up with a copy of Evil Dead 2 and he went "Fuck it, let's just make it one long fun action sequence."
Rated 02 Apr 2021
Rated 14 Aug 2007
37
22nd
Wow. This movie's plot is absolutely random. Ridiculous.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
Rated 24 Dec 2010
71
73rd
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.
Rated 24 Dec 2010
Rated 16 Jun 2014
95
93rd
I can't believe some people don't think this movie is amazing.
Rated 16 Jun 2014
Rated 10 Sep 2007
62
25th
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.
Rated 10 Sep 2007
Rated 23 Jun 2007
40
23rd
Good score but gets progressively more incoherent as it goes along
Rated 23 Jun 2007
Rated 09 Apr 2009
0
15th
Gore-filled horror, derivative of modern American zombie movies.
Rated 09 Apr 2009
Rated 15 Dec 2008
80
61st
it's ridiculous but it's also really fun. The pimp dude ruled the school.
Rated 15 Dec 2008
Rated 07 Apr 2021
70
69th
worth it for katana-biking the cinema to "fast as a shark"
Rated 07 Apr 2021
Rated 31 Oct 2020
82
88th
At one point this has a guy fighting zombies.. I mean demons.. with a katana on a motorbike in a cinema... - what's not to love?!
Rated 31 Oct 2020
Rated 02 Apr 2021
70
58th
So, maybe it's just because I haven't been to a movie theater in over a year, but this seemed like a fairly authentic recreation of the theater-going experience.
Rated 02 Apr 2021
Rated 10 Oct 2022
84
67th
Has a really classic B movie feel to it, lots of fun
Rated 10 Oct 2022
Rated 03 Aug 2011
78
66th
Easily superior to its 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?
Rated 03 Aug 2011
Rated 09 Apr 2017
72
49th
O curioso aqui é que a influência do Lamberto reside mais no Fulci do que no pai dele.
Rated 09 Apr 2017
Rated 19 Aug 2015
35
7th
Evil Dead-meets-Cronenberg type of gore in admittedly impressive amounts, however little else there may be to it.
Rated 19 Aug 2015
Rated 11 Aug 2012
30
6th
Utter nonsense even for a cheap 80's horror movie.
Rated 11 Aug 2012
Rated 21 Nov 2009
10
1st
Dire.
Rated 21 Nov 2009
Rated 12 Aug 2009
37
9th
What a horny and cheap movie... Luckily, they couldn't rape the demons... Haha!
Rated 12 Aug 2009
Rated 05 Sep 2009
20
2nd
Awful, except for the special effects (which are beauutiful).
Rated 05 Sep 2009
Rated 09 Aug 2016
10
56th
great classic italian trash. with all the great hilarious voiceover and silly plot developement. and a tiny bit of some blood. if so dumb its great is your thing, then this is your gem.
Rated 09 Aug 2016
Rated 15 Sep 2018
80
55th
The plot is basically non-existent even by splatter horror standards so it'd be pretty fair to describe Demons as phantasmagoric. It's basically 90 minutes of stylish lighting and excellent gore effects set to a killer soundtrack - Accept, Saxon, and Pretty Maids. Props for actual good 80s metal (i.e. not hair metal).
Rated 15 Sep 2018
Rated 21 Jan 2019
69
22nd
A blatant knockoff of Romero's zombie films. The only things this really has going for it is a lot of mildly interesting self-reflexiveness ; some good cinematography and direction (the fact that I only fast forwarded a little is indicative of some skill); and wisely going over the top with the gore. The rest is basically Romero's zombie world but with dumb slasher- level characterization, no subtext, a helicopter ex machina & no sense of society unraveling as things go to sh-t overnight
Rated 21 Jan 2019
Rated 30 Oct 2019
70
46th
A sort of mix between Dawn of the Dead with the aesthetics of Thriller, Demons is pretty entertaining. There isn't really any motive and essentially it is a movie theater hell-bent on creating some real zombies to kill its audience. The gore is very gooey and quite effective.
Rated 30 Oct 2019
Rated 06 Jan 2020
53
32nd
Lamberto isn't even half as skilled as his father was, but he made some watchable trash in the 80's, which was when the Italian genre industry was dying a slow death. As others have noted, it's like a cross between Evil Dead and Thriller, and it's very much a product of its time, right down to the lighting choices and heavy metal soundtrack. The over the top practical makeup effects are good for a cheapie, but it's just a repetitive gore fest that runs out of steam well before the final reel.
Rated 06 Jan 2020
Rated 07 Apr 2021
70
68th
80s as fuck with some cool gore and a great soundtrack. The katana-bike-scene is legendary.
Rated 07 Apr 2021
Rated 17 May 2020
65
45th
It doesn't make a lot of sense, but it sure is a lot of fun. Buckets of gore, great practical makeup effects galore, & a very enjoyable soundtrack, plus plenty of atmosphere. The performances are meh, but not terrible. The script, while not without several flaws, also has some pretty clever moments. This is pure 80's cheese, but it's done very well & because of that it's a good time. Not the best of the decade, but far from the worst, & a great addition to Italian horror history.
Rated 17 May 2020
Rated 06 Aug 2020
34
26th
No doubt it's watchable, but I have to say I was disappointed given I had high expectations.
Rated 06 Aug 2020
Rated 05 Dec 2020
75
56th
The score is awful (so 80s it hurts), the dubbing is terrible, the acting is amateur to say the least, and the story makes very little sense overall. Still, it's super gory and violent and fun. If this is your cup of tea, you'll be entertained.
Rated 05 Dec 2020
Rated 31 Aug 2022
70
54th
Favourite part: blind guy at the cinema.
Rated 31 Aug 2022
Rated 18 Apr 2023
73
66th
Fun time at the movies, literally. Colourful characters and nice gore make for an entertaining 90 minutes.
Rated 18 Apr 2023
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