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yendiNight of the Demons 2. 1994. Directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith. Written by Joe Augustyn. Distributed by Republic Pictures.
For those who missed it, I posted the review of the first Night of the Demons, complete with lipstick-eating nipple, very late on Friday night. As in, it was only still Friday in California and other points on Pacific Time and beyond. You probably don't need to know much about the first movie to read this review, other than the fact that a demon eats a tube of lipstick with her nipple, presumably turning it into an unholy demonic weapon, and that demons love girl-on-girl action.
The second movie is made (and takes place) six years later. Amazingly enough, both the writer and the star of the first movie were available to make this one.
We start with the two dumbest missionaries ever, heading to the abandoned Hull House of the first movie. It's utterly decrepit, with broken windows, weeds growing everywhere, and a broken "no trespassing" sign. Naturally, they decide to check it out anyway, and when the door mysteriously opens, they head inside. They fail to see the glowing eyes hovering in the hallway, and just as they're ready to give up, who other than Angela from the last movie appears, looking human. They ask her if she's been saved, and mention that the end of the world is nigh. Naturally, Angela agrees, and offers them cake. On following her, they notice that the cake is a wedding cake with the bride and groom in a puddle of blood, and that there's a coffin in the kitchen. They finally realize that this place is creepy, but it's too late. The door slams shut, and Angela points out that the cake was devil's food cake* as she morphs into a monster and slashes them to death.
Now we get to meet the rest of the future victims, all of whom are Catholic School students. We get a few minutes of boys spying on girls getting ready for bed (and, thus, lots of breast shots to please those of you who have absolutely no interest inpirates dismemberments), and then we see a few girls sitting around, telling scary stories. And what story are they telling? Yep, the plot of the first movie. Turns out that the only body never found was Angela's, and we're told that's because she descended straight into Hell, where she has sex with Satan**.
Once the girls go to bed, we get a dream sequence, with Mouse, the quiet, repressed girl, dreaming of Angela coming to her bed. As Angela turns into a demon and rips off Mouse's jaw, we learn that Mouse is Angela's younger sister. She wakes up screaming, but at least her jaw is still intact.
Over the next few scenes, we get a few more tidbits of exposition and character moments:
- The Halloween dance is that night, and the new head priest has cautioned the ruler-swinging head nun to be a little more lax this year.
- Mouse's parents got a "creepy Halloween card" last year, supposedly with Angela's signature on it. They committed suicide that night.
- The one apparently-nice boy carries a book with a pentagram on it. In plain sight. He wants to be a demonologist when he grows up.
- The bitchiest of the girls, Shirley, swipes said book.
- All of the main characters (other than Mouse and the Nice Boy) get grounded because two of them were dry-humping on a tennis court***.
- The nice boy attempts to summon a demon in the church (because he knows it's "safe"), almost gets attacked by Angela, and gets caught and grounded by the head priest.
- Shirley decides to throw a party at Hull House, and brings Mouse (who isn't told where they're going, and insists on staying in the car when she realizes the destination).
Once at the house, we get some cheap Evil Dead rip-off moments, with the first-person spirit wandering the hallways. The kids, of course, split up to wander the house. And Bibi, the nicest of the girls other than Mouse, finds a tube of lipstick in the medicine cabinet. She's about to try it on**** when her boyfriend Johnny interrupts her. And, of course, we get lots more bogus scares, with shots of Angela watching Bibi and Johnny having sex, and random shots of scary demons around the corner from the other guests. Meanwhile, the budding demonologist back at the school has found the party invitation, and a dropout stoner friend of Shirley's scares Mouse and chases her into the house.
Now, we finally find out what kind of party Shirley has in mind.
See, Shirley learned a lot from that book she stole from the demon-studying kid, and she and two of the scummier guys are planning a sacrifice. They're about to stab Mouse, when one of the other guys (being only a minor-league scumbag) breaks it up, only to get stabbed himself! Oh no! But wait, it's okay. It was a fake knife!
But we get Evil Dead-cam anyway, and Mouse screams and says that she saw Angela. After the group finds a pile of maggots, they all agree that it's time to leave, but two of them need to go pee first*****. The girl sees a face in the toilet, which convinces her that she can hold it in. But the guy (the dropout from before) relieves himself against a wall outside. As he finishes, he sees what he assumes is Shirley and follows her. As he heads up the stairs, he realizes that it's really another brunette -- Angela -- and falls down the stairs when he sees her demonic face. She jumps on him and sticks her long, black tongue down his throat, and he gets possessed even as the demon continues to dry hump his body. Metaphoriffic!
The rest of the crew decides to leave him behind (he did, after all, get there on his own). As they drive away, secure in the knowledge that anything evil at Hull House can't follow them because of the "underground river" that keeps evil at bay, Bibi pulls out that lipstick again. She's about to put it on, but thinks there's something alive in there, and freaks out. Shirley grabs the lipstick and puts it on******.
Meanwhile, the head nun and priest have been alerted to the party by Kid Demonologist. They call the sheriff even as the kids sneak back into school. Four of the returning kids decide to sneak into the dance from which they've been banned, while two more pair up for sex and Mouse heads to her room to mope.
And now, an hour into the movie, we finally get to see one of the girls get possessed.
Shirley hits the bathroom before the dance, and decides to touch-up her lipstick. As she does so, something leaps out of the tube at her, and she drops the tube of lipstick on the floor. The door won't open, though, and the lipstick craws out of the tube, forming a two-foot slimy tentacle that, sure enough, climbs up Shirley's skirt and (presumably) plants itself inside her. She sighs and falls to the ground, and the lipstick tube starts leakingdry ice fog. Which coalesces into Angela, who starts making out with Shirley because, as established in part one, that's what demons do.
Shortly after, back at the dance (which has gotten out of control, since none of the chaperones are around*******), in walks Angela in a slinky black dress and fishnets (and, needless to say, looking human instead of demonic). She starts dancing on the table, mesmerizing all of the boys (including Bibi's boyfriend Johnny) even as Shirley and her boyfriend practice some dirty dancing of their own in the corner. As Angela is about to grab Johnny and kiss him, the nun finally returns and recognizes that Angela's not a student. The nun loses Angela in the crowd, but the real fun's about to happen with Shirley.
Shirley rips off her top and offers to let her boyfriend grab a feel. Even as the nun spots this and shouts "stop this hellishness," the boyfriend can't resist, and as he reaches in, the breasts turn into putty and grab his hand! And they burn it with acid, because that's what hellish mutated demon breasts do. Everyone else runs and screams as Shirley's breasts re-shape themselves and she snaps the neck of her poor lover. As most of the kids head for the chapel, Bibi and her boyfriend wrestle with Shirley for a bit before Kid Demonologist and the nun force the demon away with a cross.
They figure out that the lipstick was the source that allowed Angela out of Hull House, then decide that the priest needs to be called to give the dead boy his last rites and that the folks in the chapel need to be calmed. Meanwhile, the nun goes "to prepare." And this is where she shows that she's the Coolest Nun Ever. She's got an assortment of holy weapons, including crosses, a rosary-whip (which doubles as rosary nunchucks, pun possibly intended), and lots of rulers (preferred weapon of nuns everywhere). Kid Demonologist, meanwhile, has a vat of holy water, lots of water balloons, and some super-soakers.
But wait! Remember the two students who went off to have sex? They're busy making out in a van, unaware of all this. And as they go at it, we see a demonic hand reach up from between the seat and reach into the guy's pants. Demonic handjob! He assumes it's his girlfriend******** , and she assumes that his moans mean that she's a really good kisser. Eventually, they realize what's going on, and look down to see the demon hand, which waves to them. They run, but Angela ambushes them and chops off the boy's head with a machete. The girl runs into Shirley, and doesn't realize that her friend is a demon until Shirley grabs her and they engage in the Hot Lesbian Demonsex.
Back at the school, Mouse gets a visit from Angela (looking human), who tells Mouse how much she missed her. And Bibi and Johnny are both away from the chapel, the former searching for Mouse and her other friends, the latter searching for Bibi. They get attacked by the girl who was just demonized, but the nun and Kid Demonologist save them and pour holy water down the demon's throat. This unpossesses the girl, and the kids take her to the chapel. We also learn that the body of Shirley's boyfriend has vanished.
We see Angela and her two possessed male friends drive away with an oblivious Mouse, and the rest of the heroes regroup outside. The priest hasn't seen any of the demons, and is skeptical about the events, but they all head off to Hull House and split into two demon-hunting groups. The nun, Bibi, and Johnny get split into separate rooms by slamming doors, and Angela smacks Johnny through a window and onto a pile of hay..
Meanwhile, the priest gets stabbed by the newly-possessed body of Shirley's boyfriend before Kid Demonologist can spray the latter with holy water. As the demon melts away (since he was already dead when possessed, he presumably couldn't be turned human again), Angela comes and chases the boy away.
Outside, we see that Bibi's boyfriend isn't dead yet! He wakes up to see his decapitated buddy playing basketball with his own head. After the usual quips, Deapitated Guy almost kills his former best friend, and only a convenient holy water balloon from Kid Demonologist saves the day. The two boys run off, only to get ambushed by the drop out (remember him?), who hits Kid Demonologist in the head with a spiked club before running away. Before he dies, Kid Demonologist gets his friend to pour holy water on him, and tells him that he thinks that Angela's plan is to sacrifice her sister.
Upstairs, Bibi is attacked by the dropout, only to be saved by the rosary-nunchuck-wielding nun who chases him away. They're both attacked, however, by Shirley and the priest, and only Bibi's boyfriend and some water balloons save them and melt the two demons away*********. The dropout returns, only to get killed by a water balloon to the crotch. That leaves, of course, only Angela. And our heroes find her with Mouse on a table, unconscious and ready to be sacrificed.
Angela chops off the head of the nun and gets rid of Johnny and Bibi's weapons with newly found demonic telekinesis. But the nun used the old "fake habit" trick and is still alive! Angela offers to let the nun exchange herself for Mouse, and the nun accepts. As the others look on, Angela has Mouse ready to chop off the nun's head, but the nun reminds the girl to remember her faith, and, not surprisingly, Mouse instead stabs her sister. The nun then grabs the supersoaker filled with holy water and finishes off the job.
But wait! As the four survivors attempt to leave, Angela attacks again, all of a sudden in the form of a naga! She whips them with her tail, and is about to bite Mouse, when Johnny kicks the wood out of a window, allowing the sunlight to enter in the form of a cross! Angela burns up, and everyone is saved!
But, of course, at the very end, some random chick at the school finds the lipstick, opens it up, and a CGI snake shoots out of it as we cut to credits.
I had no illusions that Night of the Demons 2 would be any good. A direct-to-video sequel to a movie from six years earlier certainly doesn't offer much promise. But the movie actually delivers a lot more plot than the first one -- which was nothing more than an excuse to watch folks in a haunted house get picked off -- did. It also takes the interesting route of letting both religious characters (Mouse and the strict nun) and rebellious ones (the other surviving kids) survive. It's also surprisingly gender-imbalanced, as only two women -- Shirley and one of the missionaries -- dies, as opposed to six males (everyone but Johnny). In fact, Bibi smokes, has sex (and bares her breasts more than any other character), and curses, and is still clearly the heroine and "good girl" of this movie. It's a nice break from tradition.
Credit goes to the cast, who manage to be a lot more likable than expected in this genre. Amelia Kinkade, reprising her role as Angela, manages to shift from sweet to amazingly sexy (her dance at the party is worth watching at least once) to utterly evil. Jennifer Rhodes (best known as Grams on Charmed) steals scenes as the nun, and Cristi Harris, as Bibi, is striking. We also get an early appearance of Christine Taylor, the model best known as Marcia Brady and Mrs. Ben Stiller. On the male side of the cast, Rod McCary and Tremors alumnus Robert Jayne both do solid jobs.
Director Brian Trenchard-Smith is a veteran of crappy films (from Turkey Shoot to Leprechaun 3 to Megadiddo: The Omega Code 2. He'll never be a master, but he's basically competent enough to move things along. Returning writer Joe Augustyn has improved in the six years since the first movie, although he also won't exactly go down as a genre master when all is said and done. The f/x (other than the awful CG shots involving the lipstick) are well-done by the crew, lead by Joel Harlow.
Night of the Demons 2 doesn't break much new ground, but if you're looking for a fun little movie that hits most of the direct-to-video cliches head on, it's worth wasting ninety minutes on.
*Demons love girl-on-girl action and bad puns.
**"Probably sitting on his big spike," to use the words of one of the girls.
***Can you tell that the screenwriter was desperate to move things forward and find an excuse to get his characters to Hull House?
****Question for those of you who wear lipstick: Would you try on a tube of lipstick you'd found in an old abandoned house? Forget the possibility of demons, and just think about hygiene here.
*****Yes, this entire movie hinges on a bathroom break. And yes, they're only a short drive from their school. Even I, with a bladder the size of a walnut, can wait a few minutes.
******Again, what the fuck? This is the '90s. Has no one heard of cooties? I mean, even if it doesn't have a warning label reading, "warning: this might have been inserted into a demon's nipple," it's still a bad idea.
*******As far as I can tell, the only adults at the entire school are the too-permissive priest and the too-strict nun.
********Which means that demons have very soft skin, I guess; there's clearly a lot of lotion in Hell.
*********Although you'd think that Shirley, who was possessed while alive, would revert back to human. Oh no, a continuity error! That, or having a demonic two-foot piece of lipstick crawl into your coochie kills you. Which it very well might.
For those who missed it, I posted the review of the first Night of the Demons, complete with lipstick-eating nipple, very late on Friday night. As in, it was only still Friday in California and other points on Pacific Time and beyond. You probably don't need to know much about the first movie to read this review, other than the fact that a demon eats a tube of lipstick with her nipple, presumably turning it into an unholy demonic weapon, and that demons love girl-on-girl action.
The second movie is made (and takes place) six years later. Amazingly enough, both the writer and the star of the first movie were available to make this one.
We start with the two dumbest missionaries ever, heading to the abandoned Hull House of the first movie. It's utterly decrepit, with broken windows, weeds growing everywhere, and a broken "no trespassing" sign. Naturally, they decide to check it out anyway, and when the door mysteriously opens, they head inside. They fail to see the glowing eyes hovering in the hallway, and just as they're ready to give up, who other than Angela from the last movie appears, looking human. They ask her if she's been saved, and mention that the end of the world is nigh. Naturally, Angela agrees, and offers them cake. On following her, they notice that the cake is a wedding cake with the bride and groom in a puddle of blood, and that there's a coffin in the kitchen. They finally realize that this place is creepy, but it's too late. The door slams shut, and Angela points out that the cake was devil's food cake* as she morphs into a monster and slashes them to death.
Now we get to meet the rest of the future victims, all of whom are Catholic School students. We get a few minutes of boys spying on girls getting ready for bed (and, thus, lots of breast shots to please those of you who have absolutely no interest in
Once the girls go to bed, we get a dream sequence, with Mouse, the quiet, repressed girl, dreaming of Angela coming to her bed. As Angela turns into a demon and rips off Mouse's jaw, we learn that Mouse is Angela's younger sister. She wakes up screaming, but at least her jaw is still intact.
Over the next few scenes, we get a few more tidbits of exposition and character moments:
- The Halloween dance is that night, and the new head priest has cautioned the ruler-swinging head nun to be a little more lax this year.
- Mouse's parents got a "creepy Halloween card" last year, supposedly with Angela's signature on it. They committed suicide that night.
- The one apparently-nice boy carries a book with a pentagram on it. In plain sight. He wants to be a demonologist when he grows up.
- The bitchiest of the girls, Shirley, swipes said book.
- All of the main characters (other than Mouse and the Nice Boy) get grounded because two of them were dry-humping on a tennis court***.
- The nice boy attempts to summon a demon in the church (because he knows it's "safe"), almost gets attacked by Angela, and gets caught and grounded by the head priest.
- Shirley decides to throw a party at Hull House, and brings Mouse (who isn't told where they're going, and insists on staying in the car when she realizes the destination).
Once at the house, we get some cheap Evil Dead rip-off moments, with the first-person spirit wandering the hallways. The kids, of course, split up to wander the house. And Bibi, the nicest of the girls other than Mouse, finds a tube of lipstick in the medicine cabinet. She's about to try it on**** when her boyfriend Johnny interrupts her. And, of course, we get lots more bogus scares, with shots of Angela watching Bibi and Johnny having sex, and random shots of scary demons around the corner from the other guests. Meanwhile, the budding demonologist back at the school has found the party invitation, and a dropout stoner friend of Shirley's scares Mouse and chases her into the house.
Now, we finally find out what kind of party Shirley has in mind.
See, Shirley learned a lot from that book she stole from the demon-studying kid, and she and two of the scummier guys are planning a sacrifice. They're about to stab Mouse, when one of the other guys (being only a minor-league scumbag) breaks it up, only to get stabbed himself! Oh no! But wait, it's okay. It was a fake knife!
But we get Evil Dead-cam anyway, and Mouse screams and says that she saw Angela. After the group finds a pile of maggots, they all agree that it's time to leave, but two of them need to go pee first*****. The girl sees a face in the toilet, which convinces her that she can hold it in. But the guy (the dropout from before) relieves himself against a wall outside. As he finishes, he sees what he assumes is Shirley and follows her. As he heads up the stairs, he realizes that it's really another brunette -- Angela -- and falls down the stairs when he sees her demonic face. She jumps on him and sticks her long, black tongue down his throat, and he gets possessed even as the demon continues to dry hump his body. Metaphoriffic!
The rest of the crew decides to leave him behind (he did, after all, get there on his own). As they drive away, secure in the knowledge that anything evil at Hull House can't follow them because of the "underground river" that keeps evil at bay, Bibi pulls out that lipstick again. She's about to put it on, but thinks there's something alive in there, and freaks out. Shirley grabs the lipstick and puts it on******.
Meanwhile, the head nun and priest have been alerted to the party by Kid Demonologist. They call the sheriff even as the kids sneak back into school. Four of the returning kids decide to sneak into the dance from which they've been banned, while two more pair up for sex and Mouse heads to her room to mope.
And now, an hour into the movie, we finally get to see one of the girls get possessed.
Shirley hits the bathroom before the dance, and decides to touch-up her lipstick. As she does so, something leaps out of the tube at her, and she drops the tube of lipstick on the floor. The door won't open, though, and the lipstick craws out of the tube, forming a two-foot slimy tentacle that, sure enough, climbs up Shirley's skirt and (presumably) plants itself inside her. She sighs and falls to the ground, and the lipstick tube starts leaking
Shortly after, back at the dance (which has gotten out of control, since none of the chaperones are around*******), in walks Angela in a slinky black dress and fishnets (and, needless to say, looking human instead of demonic). She starts dancing on the table, mesmerizing all of the boys (including Bibi's boyfriend Johnny) even as Shirley and her boyfriend practice some dirty dancing of their own in the corner. As Angela is about to grab Johnny and kiss him, the nun finally returns and recognizes that Angela's not a student. The nun loses Angela in the crowd, but the real fun's about to happen with Shirley.
Shirley rips off her top and offers to let her boyfriend grab a feel. Even as the nun spots this and shouts "stop this hellishness," the boyfriend can't resist, and as he reaches in, the breasts turn into putty and grab his hand! And they burn it with acid, because that's what hellish mutated demon breasts do. Everyone else runs and screams as Shirley's breasts re-shape themselves and she snaps the neck of her poor lover. As most of the kids head for the chapel, Bibi and her boyfriend wrestle with Shirley for a bit before Kid Demonologist and the nun force the demon away with a cross.
They figure out that the lipstick was the source that allowed Angela out of Hull House, then decide that the priest needs to be called to give the dead boy his last rites and that the folks in the chapel need to be calmed. Meanwhile, the nun goes "to prepare." And this is where she shows that she's the Coolest Nun Ever. She's got an assortment of holy weapons, including crosses, a rosary-whip (which doubles as rosary nunchucks, pun possibly intended), and lots of rulers (preferred weapon of nuns everywhere). Kid Demonologist, meanwhile, has a vat of holy water, lots of water balloons, and some super-soakers.
But wait! Remember the two students who went off to have sex? They're busy making out in a van, unaware of all this. And as they go at it, we see a demonic hand reach up from between the seat and reach into the guy's pants. Demonic handjob! He assumes it's his girlfriend******** , and she assumes that his moans mean that she's a really good kisser. Eventually, they realize what's going on, and look down to see the demon hand, which waves to them. They run, but Angela ambushes them and chops off the boy's head with a machete. The girl runs into Shirley, and doesn't realize that her friend is a demon until Shirley grabs her and they engage in the Hot Lesbian Demonsex.
Back at the school, Mouse gets a visit from Angela (looking human), who tells Mouse how much she missed her. And Bibi and Johnny are both away from the chapel, the former searching for Mouse and her other friends, the latter searching for Bibi. They get attacked by the girl who was just demonized, but the nun and Kid Demonologist save them and pour holy water down the demon's throat. This unpossesses the girl, and the kids take her to the chapel. We also learn that the body of Shirley's boyfriend has vanished.
We see Angela and her two possessed male friends drive away with an oblivious Mouse, and the rest of the heroes regroup outside. The priest hasn't seen any of the demons, and is skeptical about the events, but they all head off to Hull House and split into two demon-hunting groups. The nun, Bibi, and Johnny get split into separate rooms by slamming doors, and Angela smacks Johnny through a window and onto a pile of hay..
Meanwhile, the priest gets stabbed by the newly-possessed body of Shirley's boyfriend before Kid Demonologist can spray the latter with holy water. As the demon melts away (since he was already dead when possessed, he presumably couldn't be turned human again), Angela comes and chases the boy away.
Outside, we see that Bibi's boyfriend isn't dead yet! He wakes up to see his decapitated buddy playing basketball with his own head. After the usual quips, Deapitated Guy almost kills his former best friend, and only a convenient holy water balloon from Kid Demonologist saves the day. The two boys run off, only to get ambushed by the drop out (remember him?), who hits Kid Demonologist in the head with a spiked club before running away. Before he dies, Kid Demonologist gets his friend to pour holy water on him, and tells him that he thinks that Angela's plan is to sacrifice her sister.
Upstairs, Bibi is attacked by the dropout, only to be saved by the rosary-nunchuck-wielding nun who chases him away. They're both attacked, however, by Shirley and the priest, and only Bibi's boyfriend and some water balloons save them and melt the two demons away*********. The dropout returns, only to get killed by a water balloon to the crotch. That leaves, of course, only Angela. And our heroes find her with Mouse on a table, unconscious and ready to be sacrificed.
Angela chops off the head of the nun and gets rid of Johnny and Bibi's weapons with newly found demonic telekinesis. But the nun used the old "fake habit" trick and is still alive! Angela offers to let the nun exchange herself for Mouse, and the nun accepts. As the others look on, Angela has Mouse ready to chop off the nun's head, but the nun reminds the girl to remember her faith, and, not surprisingly, Mouse instead stabs her sister. The nun then grabs the supersoaker filled with holy water and finishes off the job.
But wait! As the four survivors attempt to leave, Angela attacks again, all of a sudden in the form of a naga! She whips them with her tail, and is about to bite Mouse, when Johnny kicks the wood out of a window, allowing the sunlight to enter in the form of a cross! Angela burns up, and everyone is saved!
But, of course, at the very end, some random chick at the school finds the lipstick, opens it up, and a CGI snake shoots out of it as we cut to credits.
I had no illusions that Night of the Demons 2 would be any good. A direct-to-video sequel to a movie from six years earlier certainly doesn't offer much promise. But the movie actually delivers a lot more plot than the first one -- which was nothing more than an excuse to watch folks in a haunted house get picked off -- did. It also takes the interesting route of letting both religious characters (Mouse and the strict nun) and rebellious ones (the other surviving kids) survive. It's also surprisingly gender-imbalanced, as only two women -- Shirley and one of the missionaries -- dies, as opposed to six males (everyone but Johnny). In fact, Bibi smokes, has sex (and bares her breasts more than any other character), and curses, and is still clearly the heroine and "good girl" of this movie. It's a nice break from tradition.
Credit goes to the cast, who manage to be a lot more likable than expected in this genre. Amelia Kinkade, reprising her role as Angela, manages to shift from sweet to amazingly sexy (her dance at the party is worth watching at least once) to utterly evil. Jennifer Rhodes (best known as Grams on Charmed) steals scenes as the nun, and Cristi Harris, as Bibi, is striking. We also get an early appearance of Christine Taylor, the model best known as Marcia Brady and Mrs. Ben Stiller. On the male side of the cast, Rod McCary and Tremors alumnus Robert Jayne both do solid jobs.
Director Brian Trenchard-Smith is a veteran of crappy films (from Turkey Shoot to Leprechaun 3 to Megadiddo: The Omega Code 2. He'll never be a master, but he's basically competent enough to move things along. Returning writer Joe Augustyn has improved in the six years since the first movie, although he also won't exactly go down as a genre master when all is said and done. The f/x (other than the awful CG shots involving the lipstick) are well-done by the crew, lead by Joel Harlow.
Night of the Demons 2 doesn't break much new ground, but if you're looking for a fun little movie that hits most of the direct-to-video cliches head on, it's worth wasting ninety minutes on.
*Demons love girl-on-girl action and bad puns.
**"Probably sitting on his big spike," to use the words of one of the girls.
***Can you tell that the screenwriter was desperate to move things forward and find an excuse to get his characters to Hull House?
****Question for those of you who wear lipstick: Would you try on a tube of lipstick you'd found in an old abandoned house? Forget the possibility of demons, and just think about hygiene here.
*****Yes, this entire movie hinges on a bathroom break. And yes, they're only a short drive from their school. Even I, with a bladder the size of a walnut, can wait a few minutes.
******Again, what the fuck? This is the '90s. Has no one heard of cooties? I mean, even if it doesn't have a warning label reading, "warning: this might have been inserted into a demon's nipple," it's still a bad idea.
*******As far as I can tell, the only adults at the entire school are the too-permissive priest and the too-strict nun.
********Which means that demons have very soft skin, I guess; there's clearly a lot of lotion in Hell.
*********Although you'd think that Shirley, who was possessed while alive, would revert back to human. Oh no, a continuity error! That, or having a demonic two-foot piece of lipstick crawl into your coochie kills you. Which it very well might.
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Date: 2007-05-08 03:03 am (UTC)It read simply:
Head in toilet. We split. Love, The Gang
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Date: 2007-05-09 01:08 am (UTC)That has to be the most-mis-read film title ever.
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Date: 2007-05-24 06:31 pm (UTC)Anyway, if you have stopped, I just wanted to say how much I've enjoyed reading them. They're witty as hell and informative too, a nice bonus.
I hope you're going to keep doing them but if not, it was a great run. Thanks!
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