Part of Midnight Movies
Welcome to the most life-enriching Italian terror-party of 1985. Produced by Dario Argento (SUSPIRIA) and directed by Lamberto Bava, DEMONS follows a panorama of punks, preppies and ne’er-do-wells as they get trapped in a movie theater and possessed by gut-shredding Satanic demonoids. Featuring songs by Mötley Crüe and Billy Idol, gloopy effectsa nd the iconic Geretta Geretta in a lead role, this is the most fun you’ll ever have in a movie theater while watching a movie about beasties on the loose in a movie theater.
“DEMONS is a monument to the horror genre’s potential for Grand Guignol beauty…. A coffee-table book of a horror movie, reveling in a purity of transcendent revulsion that marks it as something that’s really only suitable for the truest and most devoted of aficionados. It’s an art object disguised as a blood offering.” —Chuck Bowen, Slant Magazine
“Has more imagination and style going for it than most horror films, and if the now practically taboo level of gore doesn't remind you that DEMONS comes from the '80s, the presence of Billy Idol, Scorpions, Go West, and Saxon on the soundtrack certainly will.” —Keith Phipps, A.V. Club