Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Kodie Bird True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

Sienna-Rose Mclaughlin The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Leofwine_draca A gleefully violent, gory comic book adventure ride with little sense or intelligence but plenty of tacky yet gruesome special effects, this is a film made to appeal to the lowest common denominator and comes across of those cinematic Big Macs (apologies to the originator of that metaphor) - easy to digest, tasty and yet somehow empty, which leaves you wanting more.Forget the plot and storyline - there isn't one. Instead, it's a virtual remake of NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, with a group of people battling monsters who are just dying to get inside and rip them to shreds. Along the way we get many unoriginal moments, such as a death scene blatantly stolen from ALIENS. Basically, what this film is about are the many varied special effects, thankfully there are few of the computer variety. The demons themselves are pretty good, but it's the excess gore which really sticks in the mind. A man is punched through the head and then has his head ripped off, there are arms torn from their sockets, decapitations, stabbings, heart-rippings, and some hideous monster people with lolling jaws and drooling tongues. The blood flow is thick and plentiful, yet the gore is always presented in a comic way so it's never particularly disturbing or horrendous - in fact, it's just like Peter Jackson's BRAINDEAD.Surprisingly, the makers gathered together a great cast for this film. Billy Zane plays the smooth, seductive demon from hell with great relish, and it's a perfect piece of casting - nobody could have done it better. William Sadler plays against type as the hero of the film, and he's good value too. The supporting cast is for once excellent, and full of familiar faces; there's CCH Pounder, who's been in about a million things; Dick Miller, Joe Dante's favourite bit player and a guy who has been acting since the '50s; and Brenda Bakke in an oddly affecting role as a hooker with a heart of gold. Jada Pinkett is a Ripley-esque heroine, but aside from being Will Smith's wife, she's nothing to write home about.Added to the gory proceedings are lots of scenes of nudity, so this film obviously isn't exploitation in any way, shape, or form. DEMON KNIGHT may be absurd, crass and brainless, but it's fun too and doesn't take itself too seriously, factors which make it stand out from a lot of films these days.

Claudio Carvalho A man called Frank Brayker (William Sadler) is driving a car through a desert road chased by another car. They crash and Brayker flees from the spot. He unsuccessfully tries to heist a car and stumbles upon the alcoholic Uncle Willy (Dick Miller). Then he asks for a place to stay and Willy indicates a nearby bed and breakfast in an abandoned church. Brayker goes with Willy to the inn where he checks in with the owner Irene (CCH Pounder). He is introduced to the guests: the whore Cordelia (Brenda Bakke); the postal clerk Wally Enfield (Charles Fleischer) and the maid Jeryline (Jada Pinkett Smith). Meanwhile, Sheriff Tupper (John Schuck) and Deputy Bob Martel (Gary Farmer) finds a man called The Collector (Billy Zane) near the accident that tells that Brayker is a thief that has stolen a key-like relic from him. When the crook Roach (Thomas Haden Church), he tells about the attempt of theft of a car, the suspicious Irene calls the Sheriff that comes with his Deputy and The Collector that tries to retrieve the relic. When the Sheriff decides to take Brayker and The Collector to the police station since both cars were stolen, The Collector kills him with a powerful punch. However Brayker uses the relic to expel The Collector to outside and he uses his blood on the soil to create demons. However Brayker uses blood from the relic to protect the inn. The Collector is unable to get in the place and uses his power to tempt each person inside the inn. Who will win the battle between good and evil?"Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight" is a funny entertainment with a story of a fight between good and evil. Fans of the TV show will certainly enjoy the long episode. Billy Zane is hilarious in many moments and steals the show; William Sadler good as usual; the sexy Brenda Bakke performs Cordelia that seems to be a laboratory to Selena Coombs from "American Gothic"in the same year. Unfortunately for the fans only this film and "Bordello of Blood" (1996) have been made and this wonderful franchise is finished. My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): "Os Demônios da Noite" ("The Demons of the Night")

utgard14 Fun horror comedy with lots of action and camp appeal. Billy Zane plays a demonic mystery man looking for a powerful artifact in the possession of a drifter holed up in a hotel in New Mexico with an odd group of people, including a very sexy-cute Jada Pinkett. The people in the hotel try to stay alive while Zane and his demons try to get in. It's the first theatrical film from the Tales from the Crypt TV series and features bookends with the Cryptkeeper. I thought the TV show was hit or miss but I enjoyed this movie a lot. In some ways it's yet another Sam Raimi clone but it's enjoyable for what it is. Billy Zane is lots of fun. Jada Pinkett, William Sadler, Thomas Haden Church, Brenda Bakke, CCH Pounder are all good. Dick Miller's in this! Oh and the soundtrack is really good if you like '90s metal. It's a fun movie that's better than it has any right being.

amnesiac12001 "DEMON KNIGHT" is a criminally underrated masterpiece of 1990s B-cinema; I argue that it stands with other genre siblings like THE PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS and DEAD ALIVE as an overlooked gem composed of everything enjoyable about the horror movie experience.DK is incredibly fun. Bloody, gory, goofy fun, but it's also quite surprising. It accepts its limitations, both financial and thematic (due to being a "Tales From the Crypt" project) and embraces them with all the enthusiasm and grandeur it deserves and some that it doesn't. It accepts that its premise is fundamentally far-fetched, but also accepts that to the characters, its nothing short of completely real, and so the story and the cast treats it as such and that is what sets it above other, disappointing kitsch horror films that stray into the meta or take themselves overwhelmingly seriously for an underwhelming concept.What sells this film more than anything else is the cast; it's a testament to the craft to watch them work here. They never wink to the audience or treat the material with disdain, but instead, give it all they have (without veering into parody or kabuki), and that sells the importance necessary to invest in the characters and care about their plight. Virtually everyone in this film except Dick Miller is cast against type, and given a character in stark contrast with the ones they are usually given in films and TV outside. The most notable is Thomas Haden Church, who devastates his charming, adorable iconic role of Lowell in "Wings" as the loathsome, irredeemable, belligerent Roach. Sadler in particular is affecting as Brayker, who is a character of such quiet dignity and resignation that I truly wonder why he hasn't been offered more roles like this since. The true standout, however, is Billy Zane, who has such unparalleled charisma and humor that had this film been recognized at its time for its greatness, Zane would be remembered for The Collector and not for TITANIC. Zane's performance as The Collector is nothing less than on par with Christoph Waltz's Landa in INGLORIOUS BASTERDS.If that sounds like hyperbole, then you have yet to see the evidence to the contrary.You really can't go wrong as a horror movie fan, casual or serious, with giving this film a go. Even if you don't find it to be your cup of tea, you'd be hard pressed to argue that it wasn't worth your time.DEMON KNIGHT is actually worthy of your time. Give it a shot.