"Wow! Bodacious boobies, sis!"
I liked the part with the lipstick.
Kinda stupid, but intentionally. Night of the Demons is your typical, "horny, clearly-thirty-year-old teenagers are killed off one by one" affair. Very formulaic, with all the expected, bloody practical effects and gratuitous nudity. It only took six minutes to reach a shot of Cathy Podewell's bare ass. Not a complaint, just an observation.
All the characters fit more or less into identifiable archetypes, but none of them were that well developed. Cathy Podewell made for a bland lead. Alvin Alexis and Amelia Kinkade were interesting, but both underused. Hal Havins was pretty amusing as Stooge. The movie didn't exactly take risks or attempt anything very original, but I was at least pleasantly surprised by which characters survived the night.
This obviously took inspiration from Sam Raimi, down to the coolest shot in the movie being the POV of an unleashed evil entity rushing through hallways towards its victims. A severed arm even came to life and attacked somebody.
I also got a strong Return of the Living Dead vibe from it; No two characters seemed to be from the same counterculture, 90% of their dialogue was shitty jokes and creatively insulting one another, and Linnea Quigley got fully naked for no good reason.
Oh yeah, and this movie was book-ended by this bizarre, unrelated aside about an old man that hates halloween. The very last shot of the movie in particular was completely batshit, and led into an impressively unfitting, eighties credits song.
A good, solid, trashy 80's horror flick. Very fun.
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SUMMARY: Ten teenagers party at an abandoned funeral parlor on Halloween night. When an evil force awakens, demonic spirits keep them from leaving and turn their gathering into a living Hell.
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