Waste of time

It is a performances centric movie

hyped garbage

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

I am a connoisseur of bad horror movies from the 1980s, but this one is sadly lacking even by those standards. The dreary dialogue, made worse by appalling acting, with everyone grimacing and grinding out their lines by rote like automatons, were simply too much to bear. These performances are of the quality you might find in a high school drama production. Even worse, it lacked action, ignoring an unwritten rule for this sort of film: there simply must be a killing, maiming or supernatural occurrence during the first ten minutes. That doesn't happen here. The early scares are limited to silliness such as someone's little brother popping out of a closet shouting "Boo!" If you're 12 years old and willing to watch almost anything on TV while babysitting for your next door neighbors, you might find this acceptable. As for me, I tried to watch it but had to turn it off after 10 minutes. It was so stupid I couldn't stand any more.

This film was made for 1.2 million, and you can see how they really had made the effort in the stuff that didn't involve people speaking lines. Some of the camera work and shots are pretty good, the sets are interesting, and the makeup is quite good.And then we get to the real problems with this film, the acting and the writing, which was just awful. You have legendary 80's scream queen Linnea Quigley in this film, but as usual, she can't act.Of course, this movie also has the annoying movie convention of casting 20-somethings and passing them off as high school kids.The story is paint by numbers, an evil force is picking off high school kids, but can't seem to kill the "Good Girl" effectively.Still, I give the movie a higher rating because of the technical skill.

Most notable for its misuse of a tube of lipstick, Night of the Demons is classic 80s B horror material. It's director Kevin Tenney's most polished film and he shows some nice visual flair and manic energy, before his career sadly hit the skids with direct to video junk. Night of the Demons sputters a bit in the character department, as we're dealing with purely archetypal characters in these types of movies, but there's much entertainment in watching these one dimensional dim bulbs meet a horrible demise - or run amok as a demon. Tenney also makes the most of his low budget and majority of the film taking place in one location, with stellar makeup effects and a wonderful bathed in horror atmosphere aided by some better than expected cinematography. Night of the Demons has a nice sense of humor throughout and it's one of the better 80s genre entries.

This 1988 horror film stars Cathy Podewell, Amelia Kinkade, Linnea Quigley, Alvin Alexis, Allison Barron, Lance Fenton, Bill Gallo, Hal Havins, Philip Tanzini and Jill Terashita. This takes place on Halloween night where teenage girl, Jill (Podewell) and her friends, Roger (Alexis), Helen (Barron), Jay (Fenton), Sal (Gallo), Stooge (Havins), Max (Tanzini) and Frannie (Terashita) have a private party at an abandoned mortuary, "Hull House." Kinkade plays Angela and Quigley (Return of the Living Dead) plays Suzanne who throw the party for them. Soon, they summon a demonic spirit which possesses them one by one. This isn't a bad 80's horror flick that sort of pays tribute to "The Evil Dead" & "The Legend of Hell House" with an eerie score and good make-up effects. If you enjoy 80's horror, I recommend this.