There are few films I enjoy introducing people to more than Demons. What’s not to love? Amazing soundtrack (although the sequel’s is even better), humor both intentional and unintentional, completely batshit plot (and subplots that come out of nowhere), inventive gore – 80s trash horror simply doesn’t get any better than this. What’s the film about? Oh, fine – Berliners receive a mysterious invite to a new theater screening; it turns out more is opening than just the grade-z horror film strung up for the night. Namely, the gates of Hell. The demons in question don’t really follow any rules, at times acting more like ravenous zombies, at others like, well, demons – calculating and mischievous. They seem to go through some sort of life cycle since one demon’s back cracks open and a wholly new creature sprouts from its back, but that only happens once, so maybe not? Does it matter? Not when we are treated to a physics-defying motorcycle-and-katana massacre soundtracked by Accept. I’ll never know why this isn’t a perennial midnight screening during the month of October (at least in the Pittsburgh area); it’s tailor-made for that, from the bad dialogue to the setting of a movie theater. Just don’t try on any demon masks you find in the lobby.
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