Simply Perfect

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A Disappointing Continuation

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

A gleefully violent, gory comic book adventure ride with little sense or intelligence but plenty of tacky yet gruesome special effects, this is a film made to appeal to the lowest common denominator and comes across of those cinematic Big Macs (apologies to the originator of that metaphor) - easy to digest, tasty and yet somehow empty, which leaves you wanting more.Forget the plot and storyline - there isn't one. Instead, it's a virtual remake of NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, with a group of people battling monsters who are just dying to get inside and rip them to shreds. Along the way we get many unoriginal moments, such as a death scene blatantly stolen from ALIENS. Basically, what this film is about are the many varied special effects, thankfully there are few of the computer variety. The demons themselves are pretty good, but it's the excess gore which really sticks in the mind. A man is punched through the head and then has his head ripped off, there are arms torn from their sockets, decapitations, stabbings, heart-rippings, and some hideous monster people with lolling jaws and drooling tongues. The blood flow is thick and plentiful, yet the gore is always presented in a comic way so it's never particularly disturbing or horrendous - in fact, it's just like Peter Jackson's BRAINDEAD.Surprisingly, the makers gathered together a great cast for this film. Billy Zane plays the smooth, seductive demon from hell with great relish, and it's a perfect piece of casting - nobody could have done it better. William Sadler plays against type as the hero of the film, and he's good value too. The supporting cast is for once excellent, and full of familiar faces; there's CCH Pounder, who's been in about a million things; Dick Miller, Joe Dante's favourite bit player and a guy who has been acting since the '50s; and Brenda Bakke in an oddly affecting role as a hooker with a heart of gold. Jada Pinkett is a Ripley-esque heroine, but aside from being Will Smith's wife, she's nothing to write home about.Added to the gory proceedings are lots of scenes of nudity, so this film obviously isn't exploitation in any way, shape, or form. DEMON KNIGHT may be absurd, crass and brainless, but it's fun too and doesn't take itself too seriously, factors which make it stand out from a lot of films these days.

This movie is a stand out production! Makes me miss the way movies were made before computers took over. The special effects in this movie are fun, adventurous and unbelievably funny. I looooooved this movie! It was a surprise, I though this would take me to a simple movie plot. It had an underlying subtext that made this so much more fun. Billy Zane in this movie, so cheeky brilliant, charismatic and loveably Evil. The creatures are to die for! Wow, special effects creature company grade A+ ! Real deamons are the best deamons* THe crypt keeper <3 <3 <3 Soundtrack, let me pass out now from great production and art. This team kicks ass! oh, and side note; this movie made me reminisce because my uncle worked on it and I watched the pre edited tapes as a child :)

I much preferred the original to these types of movies like House of the Demons (all) and Demons 1&2. This movie is a cheesy Hollywood ripoff. The originals didn't have some stupid item that stole the importance from its characters.Its much more fun watching the characters running around not knowing how to deal with the situation than some cheesy cross artifact that lands right in their lap every time they're in a bit of a tangle.Predictable? Yes to the extreme which is why the originals pour crapola all over this tasteless ripoff. I'm rating this down cause so many idiots don't know a good movie when they see it.

This is one of my all time favorite movies, and it's the very first movie I saw more than twice while still in theaters. I was already a fan of Tales from the Crypt, and with this movie, there were constant thrills from beginning to end, and everyone was involved in causing those thrills. This was also the very first movie I ever saw Jada Pinkett in--I had never even heard of her before; I absolutely loved her part, and I was already a William Sadler fan from having seen him in Die Hard 2. From beginning to end, the action & suspense keeps you rolling right along on the edge of your seat! The bottom line is this is a movie that I absolutely love, & I have seen it more than 20 times already. The only thing that I did not like about this movie was that it took about 8-10 minutes or so for the actual movie to start.: )