big-gun Night of the Demon (not to be confused with Night of the Demons from 1987) is one of those movies you either enjoy or despise. It's pretty typical of the multiple murders in the woods type movie the 80's had many of. There are no Oscar caliber performances here, though I'm sure the title alone will tell you that. Professor Nugent and several of his students set out into the woods in pursuit of a legendary creature said to prowl the area. Enter Bigfoot, some strange townspeople, some of whom worship the Bigfoot creature, and one hermit lady who had been raped years earlier by the creature.The whole story is told by the professor who, as it turns out, is the only survivor of Bigfoot's wrath besides Wanda the hermit lady. The doctors and the cops listen to his story and ultimately decide he's crazy.If you happen to be an aficionado of the 80's horror genre, you could do better than this, but you also do worse.

lodmot347 I'm not even sure whether I like this movie or not. It's just flat out bizarre. It's also extremely disturbing in several parts.First of all, the movie was made in 1980, but it looks like a mid- 1970's film. There are a lot of landscape shots with 1970's-style Chicago-esque/smooth jazz/rock music playing in the background. Everyone is wearing flannel shirts for some reason. The dialog is really boring and drawn out.But beyond all that, Bigfoot is definitely the star of the show and allows the film to entice you to finish the movie. The gore and kills are really good for the time.There's some really disturbing scenes which went a little too far though. Some guy's dick gets ripped off and you actually SEE it... In another scene "Wanda" is on her porch getting whipped by her father for some stupid reason. Then at one point during Wanda's flashback, the movie gets VERY preachy. There's a shot in Wanda's bedroom where it just shows a bunch of pictures of Jesus Christ, the cross and Holy Mary, with like church music playing in the background. O.o For some reason, this part of the movie feels like you're no longer in the year 1980, but more like the late 1800's- early 1900's...Then Bigfoot comes and rapes Wanda! Why? I don't know... Her father doesn't do anything, he's just like "You deserve it!" O.OThen later, Wanda gives birth to a log of moving feces....... Literally... That's what it looked like. =w=Anyway, I won't tell the rest of what happens... It's really strange... Like I said, I don't know whether I like it or not. I guess it's passable for the super low budget it likely had. It was able to keep me watching it till the end... o-o

Bezenby Aah crapness. You've got to love it. I know I do, which is why I love Night of The Demon, one of those BBFC Nasty list films that are about as nasty as a cute little puppy dog going to sleep in your arms. It is crap though, but as usual there is an area of taste after crap where a lot of these films end up. Night of the Demon isn't about a demon. It's about Bigfoot. A professor with half his face burned off tells the story from a cheap hospital bed to two doctors and a policeman. 'Begin at the beginning' prompts one of the Doctors, and this he does. Y'see for some reason that's never explained, Bigfoot likes to murder people in the daftest way possible, without provocation. The first guy we see getting murdered is doing some fishing when Bigfoot rips his arm off. The daughter of this man goes to her nearest college and the professor, along with some students, head off to uncover the secrets of Bigfoot, who, despite how many people he kills, always get's explained away as a myth. Most of the killings are told in flashback by the professor (within the flashback of him telling the story in hospital). The townies don't like the students hanging around, and it turns out that the townies are all in some sort of cult that worships the demon by offering 'Crazy Wanda' up in some sort of sexual rite that isn't fully explained. All the walking about woods and talking to townies isn't very interesting, so the professor occasionally pauses to tell a story of someone who got killed 'nearby'. A 'young girl', who looks about 40, is getting it on with her hairy-arsed boyfriend in the back of a van when Bigfoot comes along, pulls the guy out the van and proceeds to kill him on the roof before draping him over the front window, whereupon the director cuts back and forth between nude woman screaming and man bleeding all over windshield. The students camp out in the woods, electing to find Wanda, who 'might be the key to this whole thing'. Throughout this we get more flashback killings, like the biker who stops for a pish and gets lifted into the air by his genitals, or the woodsman who gets axed in the shoulder before falling to the ground in one of the least convincing deaths ever. There's a couple more, but I'll leave these to the end. So far, none of the students are killed, but we know they will die because the policeman said something about them being missing. They all eventually get to Wanda's house, way way deep into the woods. However, Wanda doesn't talk. She just screams. A lot. So they end up hypnotising her and get ANOTHER flashback as to why she is linked with the Bigfoot fella. Y'see, Wanda's dad was one of them mental religious fellas, and didn't like to see Wanda with other boys. Casting her out of the house for the night, Bigfoot wanders (geddit) out of the woods and rapes Wanda in such a cheesy way that it's only surpassed by the great death scenes I'm a-keeping for the end of this review. The product of this union is a horribly deformed baby that Wanda's father kills, pishing of both parents and getting himself barbecued for his troubles. So far, Bigfoot has been warning the students to get to feck before he really gets pished off (which makes me wonder why he killed anyone else), but the students, dumb as they are, dig up the dead baby, causing Bigfoot to go radge and waste them all in slow motion. He fries the professor's face-off and we're back in the hospital room, where the doctors think he's killed the students and commit him. This film has been very ineptly made, as if the director wanted to make a gore film but wasn't quite sure how that aspect of the film worked. Some of the editing is fine, some of the camera is fine, and yet sometimes it jumps all over the place and you can't see a thing that's going on. Strange. It's as if five different people made the film, and not one of them knew what the other person was doing. The script they have to worked with doesn't help either. One girls simply repeats everything everyone else has said and 'wants to dance'. The old prof has to say a line like 'they burned a large anthropoid effigy; and such like. Magic. The selling point for this film is that it has some of the most ludicrous death scenes you'll ever see.In one of the flashbacks two girl scouts (wearing t-shirts that say 'girl scouts' on them) get lost in the forest and wander around. Both are carrying knives for no reason. Bigfoot (whom I forgot to mention looks like he's wearing a shag-pile carpet) springs out of the woods, grabs both of them and starts bashing them together so they stab each other to death. Err...wouldn't't you drop the knife? The massacre at the end is up there in the daftness stakes too. Bigfoot pitchforks one girl, cuts a guys throat on a window, and rips one fella open then pulls his guts out and starts hitting him with them. In slow motion. I save the best for last, though. It's the highlight of the film for me, and it takes place near the start of the film. As the students bed down for the night, for some reason the film cuts away to a guy roughing it in the woods during the day. Bigfoot appears, picks him up and starts swinging him around his head. About ten times, letting him fly through the air and impale himself on a branch. The icing on the cake is that the film then cuts back to the students, and it's still night. Crapness at it's best.

grady longstaff for starters this movie aims high in ambition, and almost achieves its goal, unfortunately the music ruined it for me, and of course the cheesefest acting. this movie isn't a bad thing though it's an enjoyable experience, if not very understandable. some of the frequent flash-backs are just plain whacky. i am a huge fan of horror and i must say this movie is done well, i think the B-movie plot line and budget hindered it, i hope, for once this movie is remade.a brief warning also it's hard to watch some of the flash-backs, especially the castration scene, most of the scene was cut so it wouldn't be banned thankfully. if you like vipco esquire B-movies you will love this.6.4/10