Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

disgusting, overrated, pointless

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Was drawn into seeing 'Night of the Demons', with a cool poster/cover, an intriguing and quite creative premise and as someone with a general appreciation for horror. Haven't seen the original 'Night of the Demons' yet so can't judge. That it was low-budget, which from frequent personal experience is rarely a good sign due to that there are so many poor ones out there, made me though apprehensive. 'Night of the Demons', simply put, turned out to be a terrible, worse than feared film with next to no redeeming values and so much done catastrophically wrong. Very nearly one of the worst films seen in a while, which is saying a lot for somebody who on the most part has been encouraged by their film/television watching and has more often than that been quite generous. Decent idea, very bad execution.Lets start with two positives. The scenery is atmospheric, if wasted by the schlocky way the film is shot and particularly edited. The demon effects are remarkably pretty good.However, the story does feel over-stretched, the whole film is dull and it takes forever to get anywhere, and some of it feels vague, under-explained in the last third where the film especially became duller, more predictable, more senseless and less scary. Too many characters are too sketchy and with nowhere near enough to make one want to endear to them. Their irritating and illogical decision making and behaviours insult the intelligence. Making the film feel bland and forgettable with not enough heart put into it. The acting is also terrible, with only Shannon Elizabeth trying (Edward Furlong phones it in) trying, while the music is cheap and inappropriate.Dialogue can be stilted and rambling while the pace is uneven, dragging in a lot of the second half and never is it exciting. Found too many the supposedly shocking moments not surprising or scary and the supposedly creepy atmosphere dreary, due to the excessive obviousness and the lack of tension and suspense. A large part of the problem being the excessive gratuity of the elements thrown in to "spice things up", especially the gore that it feels tasteless.A lot of the film completely fails to make sense, both in underdeveloped plot elements and often nonsensical and confusing character motivations. The demons look pretty good but don't act very scary and they're used poorly. Momentum is nowhere and the atmosphere completely falls flat. Everything feels both overdone and tame.Summing up, very bad. 2/10 Bethany Cox

Have you seen it? No? There is likely a very good reason for that...it stinks.Like nearly ALL the endless remakes and reboots that have been plaguing movie goers for the past decade or so....all this is, is a heartless version of the original.It has no heart.It has no soul.It is a retelling of a film that we all love and cherish...and it adds nothing to the story. It improves nothing but the special effects--which held up very well over time--and in some cases belittles the fans of the original...particularly in the fact that they remade the movie at all, without adding anything clever to it.Like so many other remakes it is a hallow shell of the original.

I'm not going to say much about this movie itself. I never actually bought it. Hell, it started with Cally Harper Ewing in DALLAS, I was nuts about Cathy Podewell, so, when RavenGlamDVDCollector got his electronic gun, I Googled her, went Wikipedia, and found she was, besides EARTH ANGEL and an episode of BEVERLY HILLS 90210, in titles I didn't know about. NIGHT OF THE DEMONS. Research on that one showed (a) it's total junk! (b) it's a very active franchise. I finally got a great deal, and ordered NIGHT OF THE DEMONS for next to nothing, a giveaway price, hell, I thought I could smile at the offal heads as they terrorized the little screamer. Sh...ucks! When it came, it was the 2009 remake. No, readers, it hadn't been my mistake, the seller posted the wrong picture, and when informed nicely by me, they apologized, and immediately rectified, the same thing happened with BLACK Christmas as well. But I kept my purchase, it was Shannon American PIE Elizabeth after all, I noticed. Gee, I knew I'd possibly rant against it in many ways. That's the break when you collect with the actresses in mind, it's way often not your kind of fun, but you're insisting on that girl, and that one, and that one...Somewhere here, in a review or a board post, I read somebody commenting on Shannon's performance, putting her down, as basically a half-hearted participant in this movie, looking like she doesn't want to be a part of it. That's a serious allegation. Come on! "Poster" might be referring to the character in the early part of the movie, so is confusing what is necessitated by the script. Let me just say that Shannon is quite the "Mistress of the Dark" dollybird in here, loved the fringe, and that 'come hither' dance midway in the movie. I think, in my own opinion, she did damn well!As far as horrors go, sh** there is one super- scary jump-out-of-your-seat moment, I'm sure those who have watched knows where it is! but all in all, there are so many low points... And the male lead, that Edward Furlong whatever bloke, gee, there's somebody just coasting along for the pay-check. Doesn't play the part with a hint of conviction. Just ploughs through the lines. Pain.Gross-out overdone scenes just make for a silly experience. The much-mentioned 'lipstick scene' is certainly a new low point in 'sexy adult' movie history. That 'ripped-off face' was poxy, very, very poxy. As for all the maggoty gore, sick joys to the sickos out there. And, as for Miss Wonderbra, that just doesn't cut it as glamorous, dear, too (two?) trashy, Suzanne. Though I liked luscious Lily with the cat whiskers, meow!!Not that bad, but far from good. Excess is never a good thing.

I really liked this movie. It's a remake of a "classic" movie from '88. I saw this one first and everything for me worked. Cheesy horror premise; check. Half naked babes; check. Demons a plenty; check check. And now that I have watched the original I think this version is far superior in both acting and script. Not gonna spoil anything major but the premise is the same, teenagers in a haunted house getting possessed by sneaky demons is the main thing . This movie is far superior both in dialog and the script departments. The 2009 version has some twists and spooky moments, the old one just had soap opera wannabe dialog and the whole story followed in that line. I think that the two versions are really different all and all and you should check both of them out. I'm also a sucker for Shannon Elizabeth so it's an 8 from me. I think I have seen the majority of both a and b horror stuff from 2009 and I really thought this was a good one and in no way is this worth a 4. It really improves on the original in every way.