Demons 2 (1987)

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

hyped garbage

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Finally I found the film that I watched as a little kid and that is my first memory of going into the cinema. It was either this film or King Kong. But this film: Demons 2 really stuck in my (kid's) mind. Especially the scene when a demon is coming from the TV. Watching this now, after almost 30 years I do recall some scene s and parts of the film that were so scary to me then: a demon dog, little boy turned into demon above all.From this distance some of the scenes seem so funny and laughable! I mean the gym goers in bathing suits and without shirts on!? I mean, was that really a thing? Some unnecessary screaming which was not conviencing at all! The birth scene and all around it is pretty whatever now. But for the pure reminiscence of my first scary film - it is OK.Scene with that guy riding a car throughout the city is totally useless! What was the point? Really do not know. And another funny thing - the city the film was filmed in is Hamburg in Germany - I am sure as I recognize the city hall. What a strange thing.All in all, it was fun to watch ( it again after 30 years). Will see to watch the 1st one: Demons.

"Demons 2" is the followup to Lamberto Bava's movie theater splatter flick (how meta can you get?). In this film, the stage is a high-tech Italian apartment building that becomes infested with the ravenous demonic beasts from the first film, picking off unsuspecting tenants one by one. Whereas the first "Demons" fed on the collective hysteria of a sealed-up movie theater being invaded by monsters, "Demons 2" takes the route of the episodic, isolating victims in a way not dissimilar from a slasher film; by the end of the film, there is a bit of a cutting loose that recalls the general tone of the first film, but far more understated.A lot of viewers and fans of the first film seem to take issue with this movie, but I frankly felt it wasn't that far off from the original. It is overtly gory and revels in it much like the first film did, and the special effects and poorly-dubbed performances are of the same caliber as the original film's. What I do think the film loses that made the original so charming is the mass hysteria which really lent the first film a frenetic and absorbing energy, whereas this film feels more like a hide-and- seek, stalk-and-slash sort of picture. Then again, would we have wanted a replica for a sequel? Lamberto Bava and Argento essentially took the gore and general premise and redrew it in a different frame, and as an experiment, it's commendable.Overall, "Demons 2" is a decent sequel in my opinion. It doesn't rehash the original, and its approach does leave it somewhat lacking in the energetic nature that really propelled the first film—I suppose the key here is to realize that this sequel isn't going to have the same spirit of the original. Taken for what it is, which is essentially the general premise of the first film transplanted on a slasher flick, it's a fun movie. Maybe not quite as fun as "Demons," but it's gloriously amusing in its own right. 7/10.

With all of the positive reviews because I just can't stand the mannerism of European films - in this case the device of using TV in a movie. Watching people watch TV is just plain boring; compounding this error are the party scenes, reminiscent of Beach Party movies and just as boring. 15 seconds is about the max for teenagers dancing scenes, especially if there isn't any T&A. Production values are pretty good (that's where the three stars come from) but wasted since there aren't any characters to care about and no plot to speak of - just splashing a lot of blood around, lots of screaming and pace-killing cuts between the movie on TV and the victims in the building. It really isn't even a good roller-coaster ride. Just boring - except for a brief pan across a naked woman face down on a tanning bed that lasts about 2 seconds while the camera settles on some guy in a sweat box with blood dripping on his head. I'm used to most Mediterranean men preferring themselves, seasoned with misogynism, but just one more demerit. I prefer females going through intense attacks of hormones.This might have been a good send-off of Slasher movies but, alas, it's just another of its kind with little to recommend itself.For all of you who enjoyed this bomb, bully and more power to you. Guilty pleasures need no justification. I would recommend Night of the Comet: similar but orders of magnitude better.

About as gory as the original, and just as senseless, too, but this film lacks the original's ideal setting in an ornate, deco cinema, replacing it with an odd looking apartment building. A girl in the building is watching a movie on television about demons, which somehow unleashes the demons again, it possesses her, and she goes around clawing and devouring everyone in sight. Killings are juxtaposed with an accordion player in a polka band, and a birthday cake, although not the same cake as we are puzzlingly shown in the opening scene, in two of the film's most (unintentionally?) odd moments. Overall this is a strange, gory, cheesy hybrid of the book Nothing Lasts Forever (aka Die Hard) and a replay of the original Demons, with a bit the Terminator and Dawn of the Dead thrown in. A distracting, out-of-place soundtrack also features prominently in the proceedings. As much as I love The Cult, I can't figure why their song Rain is played during the closing credits and during a party scene. It's good to see Tony the pimp has recovered though, from being so violently attacked during the previous film.