Night of the Demons

The poster art alone is scary enough. There may not be the scariest movie behind it, but it’s high camp 80’s schlock and it takes place during a Halloween party in a possessed (not haunted – know the difference!) house, so it may just be what the doctor ordered for you this season. Give it a listen and see if you agree with our assessment of this cult classic.

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Night of the Demons (1988)

Episode 99, 2 Guys and a Chainsaw Horror Movie Review Podcast

Todd: Hello, and welcome to another episode of 2 Guys and a Chainsaw. I’m Todd, and I’m Craig. Craig, we’re on week 2 of our, October horror festival. It is it is Halloween and, today we picked a film that, takes place during Halloween night. It is called Night of the Demons from 1988. Oh, man. This movie. I, remember going to the video store and seeing the poster for this film. It graced the horror section of many a video store for, I I feel like, decades. I feel like well into the nineties. Even though this movie is from 1988, you could see this this poster of, of Angela done up as a demon that just looks like scary as crap. It looks like the kind of thing you shouldn’t post where children are gonna be walking through. It just doesn’t. It it it sells this movie, and it Todd this movie for me. And even though, you know, I spent at least a decade or 2 looking at this poster and thinking, oh, my gosh, it must be the scariest movie in the world, When I, I never saw it until high school, I believe, when I was with some friends on Stupid Movie Night. And, it seemed to be very appropriate for stupid movie night because Mhmm. This movie’s really dumb. Yeah. It it’s got a huge cult following. It really does, and I guess, you know, it was made for, like, about a $1,000,000, and it and it grossed, like, 3,000,000. Didn’t even get a wide theatrical release. It was just released, like, in Detroit and a couple theaters, but especially history has been kind to it, I suppose. I’m not really sure why, except for the fact that this is, like, the quintessential eighties horror film. Like, take every cliche, take every thing about an eighties horror film and distill it Todd, and you basically get this movie. Am am I right about this?

Craig: Yeah. We were talking about we’re brainstorming movies we wanted to do for the Halloween season because I know that you much like me, this is like my favorite time of the year. It’s when we have free

Todd: Oh, Oh, please don’t tell me you saw this with Alan.

Craig: Oh, no. No. In fact, I was I was watching it in my living room on my computer, as I do, and he walked through several times and he was like, what are you watching?

Todd: And I

Craig: was like, I know right? You recommended this one and you said that, it had a fond place in your heart. And I, I had seen it too. Like you, I don’t think I really saw it until I was an adult. I don’t know how I got by without seeing it until then, but I had kind of fond memories of it too. And, so I sat down to watch it again and I was watching it and I was like, my Todd this is awful. I, and I, I’m, I’m reluctant. I’m hesitant to say that because I, I, it does have a huge cult following and I know that there are people out there who love this movie and I think I get why. I mean, it’s super campy and silly and it does have, you know, some good effects and stuff like that, but I can only imagine that part of the reason that people like it so much is because of how bad it is. Like, the acting is, oh, my gosh. It’s the worst.

Todd: Like, every single person in this movie is, like, pulled straight out of community theater.

Craig: Oh my gosh. It’s so bad. And it’s this group of probably 30 year olds who are supposed to be playing high school kids who just, they’re just a bunch of jerks and they all end up in this house and then it’s they’re just so stupid and and I guess it’s at least kind of fun to watch them all get picked off. And there are 10

Todd: of them, man. 10.

Craig: Oh, I know. Way too many. So many. And, like, I wrote down before I even started, I went to IMDB and I wrote down all of their names and all the actors who played them all and I’m like, why are there so many of them? Like I’m never going to be able to keep track of all these people. And so as I’m watching, I’m trying to pay attention to their names and I’m writing down, okay, Roger’s the black guy. Okay, Max is the guy in the doctor’s costume. Like I really need to keep track of these. It doesn’t matter. They’re just a bunch of assholes that get together and get possessed and the end. Yeah.

Todd: