Cathardincu Surprisingly incoherent and boring

Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

ThedevilChoose When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

bowmanblue I've been watching 'Demons' since the eighties. It's an Italian film that panders to us English speakers by kindly dubbing its natives with American voice actors. Ever since it was released it's been labelled as 'Night of the Living Dead in a cinema' and – yeah – I can't really sum it up any better. It's a zombie film, only with 'demons' rather than zombies. This means that the nasties can sort of run (nearly twenty years before 28 Days Later wowed us with the prospect of a 'running zombie!') and aren't so much interested in eating their victims as they are in just turning them into more demons through scratches/bites. But, let's face it, they're still zombies by another name.The story follows a group of people who go to watch a free horror film in a creepy cinema, only to find that life really does imitate art and the demons spread from the big screen to the popcorn stalls (so to speak). Now, you may be thinking that if you were trapped in your local multiplex with a load of flesh-eaters, you'd just kind of run out. Good point. And our on-screen heroes do try their best. However, where as most zombie films follow the rules of reality (if you count corpses coming back to life and attacking the living 'reality') Demons adds various plot devices which don't really get explained. Let's just say that random things happen that ensure the humans never can find a way out of a building little bigger than any cinema you've ever been in.This is where I say the film is either genius or terrible – I've never really worked out which. Random things happen which could be argued that subvert the typical Hollywood narrative structure. However, another line of thinking is that the writers had no idea what they were doing – plots go nowhere, as do scenes and the balance of characters is all over the place. Sometimes you think some characters know more than they do and are going to play a greater part, only to have them killed at random parts.But, no matter what you think of the story, the special effects are pretty special – especially for the time. The demons themselves really are pretty nasty and I always found them a lot more creepy than your standard shuffling zombie. The demons really seem to take genuine satisfaction in spreading their plague and are motivated by a deep evil, rather than the zombies' need to feed alone. Demons may be laughed at by today's standards – it hasn't got the characters of The Walking Dead, nor the coherent story of any recent zombie film, but it does have a weird feel about it and is definitely worth watching if you're a fan of the genre (and like eighties music). I find it a weird hypnotic classic that I watch regularly. Bobby Rhodes is an absolute legend in this.

Tony Fn Show Stanford Plenty of blood the acting is bad the soundtrack is beyond epic, you have demons with blood dripping from there mouths blisters when popped ooze a thick green liquid a horrific transformation from human to demon and a scene that contains a samurai sword a motorbike and a pounding 80s metal riff courtesy of German band accept, this movie is all the best things the 80s had to offer in 1 film.With its singular flaw that being the acting and to be honest its not really that bad Dario Argento and Lamberto Bava have crafted a superb horror film, Demons is a film i would recommend to anyone who is up for a fun horror film.a special thanks to the audio god claudio simonetti without him this movie would not be as good

Fella_shibby Co-written by Dario Argento, produced by William Lustig (director of Maniac) and directed by Lamberto Bava (son of horror legend Mario). Some might argue that Bava Junior doesn't have the talents of Bava Senior. I saw this for the first time in the late 80's. Ten rupees rental man. It was hilarious, the demons were funny looking, the picture was too dark and the acting was atrocious. Love the scene at the end where the guy is on the motorcycle swinging the sword at all the demons chopping them up and decapitating them. The nihilistic ending sees the remaining survivors escaping the theater, only to discover the city over-run by demons. This movie has everything; violence, blood, action, 80's metal, and all kinds of other things. This is about people who get invited to a theater to see a horror flick, but it turns out to be a movie from hell.

poe426 The idea was a natural: a group of 80s moviegoers slither into a free screening of a slasher flick and end up being terrorized by Demons from Hell (or a subdivision thereof). DEMONS boasts everything that made the 80s instantly forgettable: Big Hair and Big Music (this was, after all, the era of MTV), slasher films and music video directors who couldn't direct their way out of a mall. It all amounts to one big mess of a movie with absolutely nothing to recommend it. I saw it first at a drive-in, but, because Time has a tendency to muddle one's memories, I opted to give it another try just the other day. My initial reaction was the same as my latest. (A quick example: the victims, upon realizing that they're being attacked by Demons from Hell, proceed to barricade themselves INSIDE the theater, blocking off all escape routes.) (And, for no apparent reason whatsoever, a helicopter lands on the theater roof, which caves in.) Lambert Bava ain't no Mario. (And how did they get away with pilfering the score for PSYCHO...?)