Night of the Demons III
When a group of rambunctious teens take refuge in Hull House to escape the law, they soon realize their grave error upon meeting Angela.
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- Cast:
- Larry Day , Amelia Kinkade , Kristen Holden-Ried , Gregory Calpakis , Tara Slone , Christian Tessier , Joel Gordon
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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
Thanks for the memories!
Save your money for something good and enjoyable
People are voting emotionally.
Weak followup to NOTD2, with Angela back for one more go-round, this time versus a bunch of young punks who rob a store and shoot a cop. They take refuge at Hull House, which they will soon learn to regret. Some decent nudity, sexy situations and actually more special effects than in the first two flicks combined, but weak on everything else. I am glad Mimi Kincaide got to play Angela in all three movies, even though she was getting noticeably older and heftier by the time this second sequel was made. I imagine the filmmakers must have been very tired of the franchise by this point, and it shows. Not a scare to be had.
"Night of the Demons 3" is a serviceable entry in the series with a lot to like about it.**SPOILERS**Traveling to a party, Nick, (Gregory Calpakis) Lois, (Tara Sloane) Reggie, (Joel Gordon) Vince, (Kristen Holden-Ried) and Orson, (Christian Tessier) come across Abbie, (Patricia Rodriguez) and her friend Holly, (Stephanie Bauder) stranded on the side of the road. After a trip to a liquor store goes horribly wrong, they all head out and try to hide out from the situation. When they come across a house in the middle of nowhere, they realize it's the infamous Hull House, but ignore the warnings about it being haunted and stay there anyway. Coming upon Angela Franklin, (Amelia Kinkade) who lives in the house, they decide to come up with a way to escape. When they realize that they're being killed off one-by-one, their plan to escape gets even more desperate as the demons try to prevent it from happening.The Good News: This one here actually wasn't all that bad at all. The film's best point, like all the other entries in the series, is that the special effects here drive the film. From the rather fun and interesting looking demons, which here still have the distorted faces, large red eyes, fang-lined mouths and demonic-scales all over them which manage to impart them with a fantastic look, to how the humans and demons are killed to the powers that they demonstrate to terrorize the others around them, there's plenty of special effects in here which look really great. There's a great scene where they all change into the various versions of their past lives, complete with the bloody wounds that were inflicted before their death yet transformed into the demon make-up and it's overall a great scene. The kills in here are just as memorable, with there being a hand punched through a chest and pulling a heart out, a police badge thrown into the face, having a chest scratched up, a forked tongue shoved into the mouth and explodes out the back of the head and having a car run over them, among others. There's also the demon's deaths, which are again accomplished with the usual holy-water-that-melts-the-skin technique that really produces some messy scenes. The confrontations with the demons in here are also really great, and the last-half hour of the film is just really great as there's just a never-ending series of confrontations and chases through the house. From the Satan-masked demon that chases them through the different levels to the main one from down in the basement up into the main part of the house and out into the front yard where there's the great demonic confrontation, it has a whole lot of great parts that are just plain fun. The last best part of the film, though, is that there's plenty of nice cheese in here. From the action to the make-up to the really nice nudity and the romantic scene in the middle of the chase, it feels really cheesy and definitely a lot of fun. These here are all that make the film really enjoyable.The Bad News: There wasn't a whole lot to this one that doesn't work. The robbery angle here is the main thing which doesn't make much sense at all. This is completely handled the wrong way, since it puts every single one of them in danger from the police, based on what they find on the surveillance tape yet at the end the survivors are told that there's no evidence of them being on it. This indicates that they had seen it, yet the actions that would've been caught by those who were on it don't deserve the police following them, and yet the film throws in the segments with them doing all the wrong things to make it go on, which is really the biggest part of it all. The film's rather large cheese factor is something else here, but the misstep over the cop angle here is the biggest problem.The Final Verdict: A really enjoyable and impressive entry, if just not up to the level of the other entries yet still being good on it's own. If you've liked the others then there's nothing that should stop a viewing, and those who enjoy these kinds of films should as well, while those who aren't big fans should heed caution.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Nudity and Graphic Language
The first in the trilogy was good. The second was very good. This is just bad.The plot has to do with Angela looking for more victims. A group of desperate teenagers obliges. However, they are truly unlikable. We need to have someone to cheer for, but we don't care if any of the characters survive.The effects are good enough as is the direction. But the characters and the plot are lacking. How could they have screwed up such a good thing? Best to watch the first two and skip this one.The only redeeming part of this movie was recognizing one of the actresses and trying to figure out who she was. A fun game, but not worth an hour and a half of your time. (If you're curious, Tara Slone is a Canadian singer.) There! I gave it away. Now go watch Part 1, then Part 2, then Part 2 again and call that the trilogy.
I'm a fan of the first two Night of the Demons films, so I was keen to see the third instalment despite all the poor reviews I'd read. Does it live up to its bad reputation? Pretty much.Firstly, you don't cast twenty-somethings as teenagers! No! To whoever makes the next "Night of the Demons" movie (if there is going to be one), please cast real teenagers! I know the other two Demons movies are guilty of this too, but this was made in 1997.The script, when it isn't ripping off lines from "Full Metal Jacket", is average at best. Kevin Tenney's original script was surely no masterpiece, but it was apparently sharper, gorier and funnier than the finished product. Apparently the director decided not to film most of the best scenes. Oh well.The gore is seriously lacking, and what gore there is is badly executed. The special effects are a joke.Some good old-fashioned nudity can't save this film from being the worst of the three. Sure, the original "Night of the Demons" was never going to win an Oscar, but it was well-shot, had a good score, a decent script and some memorable scenes. If the right people were involved, I'm sure this could have been a good entry to the series.All in all, this film isn't as bad as people make it out to be. I have seen MUCH worse films than "Night of the Demons 3". It has some entertainment value to it, and fans of the series will see it anyway no matter what.