Milk_Tray_Guy I'll be brief... This Halloween movie has it all. Stereotypes (the virginal female lead, the frustrated boyfriend, the cool kid, the fat guy, the black guy, the goth girl, the slutty girl, the nerd) - all here; party at a spooky location (abandoned funeral parlour on the outskirts of town, the scene of a horrific multiple murder years ago) - check; John Carpenter-style synth score - definitely; dodgy acting - and how! Honestly, an hour and a half of marvellous 80's Halloween teen horror. Put your brain in neutral and just go along for the ride! Easily an 8/10

quridley While more than a little inspired by Return of the Living Dead and The Evil Dead, NOTD is a very well-made, fun and clever 80s movie. Director Kevin S. Tenney gives the somewhat predictable action a post-modernist twist; succeeding in spoofing tropes and breaking expectations. Think the same style of Alred Hitchcock, Brian DePalma or Quentin Tarantino, but given to teenage slasher movies: a zippy humorous script, offensive humor, racial and gender subtext, vulgar sexual references, a paced and well-structured story and lots of camera tricks. Its style over substance popcorn filmmaking that is more about showing something than saying anything. A very fun time.

Foreverisacastironmess Familiar but fun, the formula of this picture doesn't differ too greatly from the many others of its kind, a group of sexy stupid teenagers that include such classic archetypes as the good girl, jock, misunderstood tough rebel guy, black guy, Asian chick, preppy guy, big fat party animal, slut and goth, all decide that it'd be a great idea to party in a creepy old house on Halloween Night, and what do you think is gonna happen? It sure ain't peace love and harmony! I think though that this movie works out very well for what it is, I found it very fun and easy to chill out with and get into, you get exactly what you pay for here. This is just the kind of horror movie that I tend to eat right up, the ones that you can laugh at but still get creeped-out by a little, and I found this to be a lot of joyous good old 80s style grim horror fun, nothing too heavy or anything to 'get', it isn't trying to teach you anything, there's no ugly torture porn deaths to make you hate life, it just wants you to have a good time with it as a horror thrill ride with teens running through a fantastic horror house of torment with scary monster people at every turn. And it's obviously not meant to be taken too seriously, it is tongue-in-cheek as hell! I found the goofball dialogue to be a real plus actually, I think this is a case where it makes the movie more enjoyable than if it had all been played completely straight. There's so many great eye-rolling cheesy lines it's almost unbelievable, some of them are so obnoxious and in your face it's like they dared themselves to include them in the script I swear, but I love it! "Bodacious boobs" and "Do you guys have sour balls?" are to name but two! I thought Amelia Kincaid, Linnea Quigley and Billy Garro were the most interesting characters, Quigley still looked hot although she definitely looked more like a mom than a teenager, and when she gets possessed is just what she looks like these days(!) The scene where the lipstick is pushed into the tit is bizarre but often something that folks remember from this movie more than anything else. Amelia Kincaid's crazy demon dance is a highlight, it looks surreal and amazing as she warps from one point in the room to another in time to the strobe light. In a scene early in the movie where Kincaid replies to Quigley with an exaggerated "Of course I did!" she seriously appears to mock her overacting for a second! Wonder if they just decided to leave that take in for laughs or what? It was a cool change in a horror movie from that time, having a black guy, Roger, actually being one of the survivors. He and the unfortunate girl who mysteriously dies off-screen were the smartest ones, at least trying to get the hell out of there as soon as things started getting scary. And after freaking out and leaving the 'virginal' good girl to die several times, he does eventually step up and saves her in the end. The nice girl being dressed like Alice in Wonderland makes for a neat visual as she's running for her life through that awesome haunted house's dusty corridors, but she was so bad though, I'd personally put her as the worst actor in the whole thing! Definitely not the most inspired final girl ever.. Sal I liked a lot, he may have acted like a stereotypical tough wise guy mook but he was still the one character that I did feel a bit sad about dying. I really didn't give a sh*t about the two that did survive, they were boring, I liked Sal and the bad girls! I love the beautifully spooky animated opening sequence, the syn-thy score and excellent hand-drawn animation put me in just the right mood for the macabre mayhem that was to come the first time I watched this. Very festive, I think it's one of the best horror movies to spend the Halloween season with. And I for one loved the little wraparound with the sick cranky old geezer getting a well-deserved comeuppance when he eats a piece of pie prepared by his kooky wife using the very same unused apples filled with razor blades that he cruelly intended to give to innocent children, in a very nice touch of the old E.C. grim irony to bookend things with. How could she possibly have made the deadly desert without noticing the lethal objects? Well who says she didn't... As she goes over and strangely pats his head as he lies dead as a post, it would have ended things on such a perfectly hilarious note if she'd have said to him, "Happy Halloween, asshole!" And it also would've been a small callback to what Stooge yells at him from the car at the beginning! A bit silly but very entertaining, this was very much a breath of fresh air to me when I saw it for the first time last year and I certainly consider it a new horror gem from back in the day. The setting is inspired, the banter is snappy and the demon effects are interesting and scary, and it may not be horror Shakespeare but to me Night of the Demons makes for a very worthwhile watch of fun retro horror goodness and I found it a real blast. "Stop looking at me!!!!"

Mr_Ectoplasma "Night of the Demons" has a group of ten teenagers throwing a Halloween party in an abandoned funeral parlor; led by prankster Angela (Amelia Kinlade), the party starts out in good spirits, but it's not long before spirits of the dead start possessing each of the kids, turning them into ravenous monsters with an appetite.I remember seeing the VHS cover for this film at the video store as a child, and it haunted my dreams for years. Every time I went into the video store, I'd avoid the horror section at all costs just so I wouldn't have to see that awful monstrosity on the VHS slip. Now, as an adult who has seen the film, it seems rather silly given the minutely comical tone of the movie, but no less, it is a testimony to the effective makeup work and special effects employed in this film. Plot-wise, what we really have here is essentially a hybrid of "The Evil Dead" and "Hell Night," but the film is still wildly enjoyable despite the derivations. Kids running amok in a dusty funeral parlor where each of their friends are transforming into monsters, while meanwhile, Angela, the "queen bee" of the party is perhaps the most horrific of all. The film has a slightly humorous edge to it at times, yet still has plenty of scares and splatters up its sleeve to keep the most jaded horror fans amused and entertained. Amelia Kinkade and Linnea Quigley are the highlights of the cast despite ostensibly being supporting characters, but the whole cast is much better than the material demands. "Night of the Demons" is, at the end of the day, a solid flick that doesn't demand serious viewing— in fact, I'd say it works against that— but it's still a remarkably well made film with impressive special effects and a hearty mix of gruesome violence and edgy humor. The Bauhaus dance sequence is just one of many party favors offered. 7/10.