Dèmoni 2: L'incubo ritorna (1986)

Director:

Lamberto Bava

Writers:

Dario Argento (writer)
Lamberto Bava (writer)

Release Date:

February 1987 (USA)

Genre:

Horror

Tagline:

The Nightmare Returns

Plot:

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.

Plot Keywords:

Demon | Apartment | Trapped | Apartment Building | Birthday Party

Cast

David Edwin Knight	...	George
Nancy Brilli	...	Hannah
Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni	...	Sally Day
Bobby Rhodes	...	Hank, gym instructor
Asia Argento	...	Ingrid Haller
Virginia Bryant	...	Mary the Prostitute
Anita Bartolucci	...	Woman with Dog
Antonio Cantafora	...	Ingrid's Father
Luisa Passega	...	Helga Haller, Ingrid's mother
Davide Marotta	...	Tommy the Child Demon
Marco Vivio	...	Tommy
Michele Mirabella	...	Hooker's Client
Lorenzo Gioielli	...	Jake
Lino Salemme	...	Security Guard (as Pasqualino Salemme)
Maria Chiara Sasso	...	Ulla, partygoer with camera

Also Known As:

Demoni 2 (Italy) (short title)
Demons 2 (USA)
Demons 2: The Nightmare Is Back (USA)
Demons 2: The Nightmare Returns (USA) (video title)

Runtime:

91 min | Canada:88 min | USA:88 min (R-rated version)

Country:

Italy

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Canada:16+ (Quebec) | New Zealand:R18 | Australia:R | Canada:R | France:-12 | Italy:VM14 | UK:18 | USA:Unrated | West Germany:18 | Germany:BPjM Restricted

Filming Locations:

Hamburg, Germany

Company:

DACFILM Rome

Trivia:

The scene where Hannah (Nancy Brilli) has a baby was not part of the original script. Originally, Hannah's baby would become a demon inside her and claw its way out of her. This scene was taken out when Lamberto Bava and Dario Argento decided they wanted a happier ending.

Quotes:

Joe: [to his friends, upon finding a hideous, lethal supernatural creature lying dormant in a dark spooky alley] There's no danger!

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Robot Ninja (1989)

Soundtrack:

Demon

Very gruesome. Surprisingly good.

Okay, first of all, anybody who is expecting The English Patient from a movie called "Demons 2" will be sorely disappointed. This is an 80s low-budget Italian horror movie and as such has serious plot, dubbing and acting problems. That said, this is actually a very good movie for the genre.

The connection to the original movie is a bit blurry but it does try to connect the two together. Apparently somebody made a movie about the first incident, and it is this movie that "infects" a new building filled with badly-dubbed Italian actors.

The make-up effects are quite good, and the demons pretty unsettling. I'd say this movie is on par with the original Demons (largely because it is almost exactly the same movie). This is a pretty brutal movie. None of the humorous subtext that you'd find in the "Nightmare on Elm Street" sequels, "Scream" or most other modern horror movies. Nope. Just a bunch of people desperately fighting to survive, and not doing a very good job of it. They aren't all stupid either....they do try. Unfortunately the screenwriters arranged it so that all the windows are unbreakable, and the electric doors unable to be opened.

The movie also breaks some horror movie taboos as children were surprisingly made into victims.

On a lighter note, I would also say that this is the first horror movie I have ever seen (barring Antichrist/Second Coming films)in which a character goes into labor while fighting demons.

An entertaining horror movie.....Never looked at my watch once.