** out of **** In Lamberto Bava's "Demons", a private showing of a never-before-seen horror film at a city theater called "The Metropol" meant death for all those who attended the screening; as the reels of the film came with a deadly curse. The movie-within-a-movie was about the discovery of ancient artifacts of demonic lore; and thus, the theater would seem swarm with fast-running yet zombie-like demons. It was a clever mash-up of the kind of sensibilities brought up by … more
Demons 2 is a more accomplished film than part one. Instead of taking place in a movie theatre, this one is featured inside a state of the art apartment complex. The direction is more up to par with Lamberto Bava's style and it has more interesting characters. The international print of this movie is about three minutes longer with several juicier scenes that were toned down during the film's intial American release back in the late 80's. Personally I like Part two more … more