A few months
ago, I watched NIGHT OF THE DEMONS 2, a witty, gory, entertaining horror film
which kept me happily entertained. Since
I was so impressed with that film, I decided to check out the first one. Big mistake. Even bigger mistake, I had about
five guys staying at my place, all looking for some gory entertainment. What I delivered to them was a slow paced,
lame horror movie.
Well,
NIGHT OF THE DEMONS has the slimmest of all possible plots, so describing it
won't take long. Basically, a bunch of
horny teenagers want to go have a Halloween party at the old Hull House, a
place supposedly possessed. Not haunted, possessed, as the fine difference is
described eloquently in the movie. This
means that the house is not full of ghosts, but full of demons. Hence the name
of the movie.
The
party is thrown by a weird woman named Angela, who dresses in all black, and
her empty-headed, flirtatious friend who keeps saying, "I hope you invited
cute boys to this party." Aaah, to
be a successful screenwriter. Anyhow,
pretty early on, the characters are established: a blond cheerleader-type, her
preppy boyfriend, the token black guy, the token Asian woman, the fat slob, the
slimy Italian guy, etc. etc. It's so
refreshing to have a film which avoids stereotypes.
Well,
most of the movie is inconsequential, as the partygoers roam around the house
for what seems like forever. Here's my
question: if you wanted to throw a wild party, would you only invite 8 people? Oh well, I guess some people just have
different tastes. Also, they do the same
thing which always pisses me off about these movies: when they want to dance,
they play lame hard rock. Whatever happened to dance music?
The big
problem about NIGHT OF THE DEMONS is that there is way too much build-up. How
long did these filmmakers expect us to wait for a good killing? Just about all
the people I watched the movie with grumbled about this very fact, never a good
thing when it comes to horror movies. There is just one real redeeming factor
for this movie which is why I bothered giving it even one star: there are a
couple good killings including a terrific one in which a guy gets his eyes
popped out...they literally fly out of his head! Other than that, though, don't
waste your time on this drech and go straight for the far superior sequel.
RATING:
* (out of a possible four).
What?! The lame rock is Stigmata Martyr by Bauhaus. I was actually happy to hear a classic goth song in the film!
Posted by: pmj | April 14, 2006 at 05:38 PM
But if it's a film like this, I don't think it accentuates the quality of the Bauhaus song, thus making it (the song) worse, ergo 'lame rock song'.
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