Night of the Demons (1988)

User Rating:

5.7/10   

Director:

Kevin Tenney

Writer:

Joe Augustyn (writer)

Release Date:

9 September 1988 (USA)

Genre:

Horror

Tagline:

Angela is having a party, Jason and Freddy are too scared to come. But You'll have a hell of a time.

Plot:

On the night of Halloween, 10 teens decide to go to a party at an abandoned funeral parlor. "Hull House"...

Plot Keywords:

Teen | Party | Demon | Funeral Parlor | Halloween

Cast

Alvin Alexis	...	Rodger
Allison Barron	...	Helen
Lance Fenton	...	Jay Jansen
Billy Gallo	...	Sal Romero
Hal Havins	...	Stooge
Cathy Podewell	...	Judy Cassidy
Linnea Quigley	...	Suzanne
Philip Tanzini	...	Max
Jill Terashita	...	Frannie
Harold Ayer	...	Old Man
Marie Denn	...	Old Man's Wife
Karen Ericson	...	Mrs. Cassidy (Judy's Mother)
Amelia Kinkade	...	Angela Franklin (as Mimi Kinkade)
Don Jeffcoat	...	Billy Cassidy
James W. Quinn	...	Clerk #1 / Demon Voices

Also Known As:

Halloween Party

Runtime:

90 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Ultra Stereo

Certification:

Iceland:16 | Singapore:PG (cut) | Australia:R | UK:18 | USA:R | West Germany:16 | Germany:BPjM Restricted

Filming Locations:

South Central Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Meridian Productions

Trivia:

Linnea Quigley (Suzanne) and special effects artist Steve Johnson met when she came in to get the mold for her fake breasts done. They were later married.

Goofs:

Continuity: In Italian version at the beginning of the movie the characters talk about a party for "Carnevale", while later in the movie when they're going inside Hull House, they talk about "Halloween" or "Ognisanti".

Quotes:

Angela: [possesed] Open the door, Rog. We don't want you, we want the bitch! You know we'd never hurt a nice little boy like you.
Rodger: Go to hell, you dirty bastard!
Angela: [possesed] Oh, not tonight my boy, not tonight. Rest assured we got something wonderful planned for you, so much pain, so much *sorrow*!

Movie Connections:

Featured in Gorgon Video Magazine (1989) (V)

Soundtrack:

The Beast Inside

Great mindless 80s Horror!

The 80s were overrun by all those HALLOWEEN/Friday THE 13TH slasher-style horror movies, so this is something of a relief.

Ten unbelievably annoying teenagers (would you want to hang out with these jerks?!) decide to throw a Halloween party at a local former funeral parlor called "Hull House". During a "past life séance" a demon is accidentally released, and each person becomes possessed and kills off the others.

This all sounds very EVIL DEAD/DEMONS-ish, but Tenney lends some directorial style to the proceedings, there are some good one-liners, the music is excellent, the Steve Johnson prosthetic make-up FX are scary and Linnea Quigley is quite fun as a boy-crazy bimbo who pokes out eyeballs with her fingers and does an amazing new thing with a tube of lipstick!

Great fun on a no-brainer level! After checking out the breakdown of the voting and the other posted reviews, I don't understand how this only received 4 out of 10 (?!)

I give it, 8 out of 10.