Night of the Demons

"Angela is having a party, Jason and Freddy are too scared to come... But You'll have a hell of a time."

Director: Kevin Tenney Year: 1988 Runtime: 90 min IMDb: ⭐ 6.2
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Synopsis

When partygoers at a deserted funeral home decide to have a séance on Halloween night, they awaken something evil with a thirst for blood.

Teenage outcast Angela Franklin and her best friend Suzanne are throwing a party at Hull House, a mortuary abandoned due to its gruesome past and rumored to be cursed by evil spirits. On the way there, Stooge, Helen and Rodger drive past an elderly man who is carrying apples and razor blades. When Stooge taunts him by showing his buttocks out of the passenger window, the elderly man curses at them and says that "they'll get what they deserve". Judy Cassidy and her boyfriend Jay Jansen pick up their friends, Max and Frannie, for the party. When they arrive, Judy's ex-boyfriend Sal Romero crashes the party. They start the party by dancing, but the radio dies out. Angela then holds a séance as a party game, but Helen screams when she sees a demon in the mirror foreshadowing her demise; and the mirror falls to the ground in pieces. The group suddenly hears thuds below them, and the demon frees itself from the crematorium it was sealed in to possess a distracted Suzanne. The group searches around the house, and the possessed Suzanne forcefully kisses Angela for the demon to manifest in her too. When Judy discovers that Jay only invited her to have sex, he abandons her in a room only for her to be apparently locked in. Rodger and Helen find no exit outside, but as Helen disappears and the demons call out Rodger's name he locks himself in the car. Stooge wanders with Suzanne to find a bathroom and he gets locked outside, where her face transforms and she smashes a mirror before disappearing. A confused Stooge finds Angela seductively dancing in front of the fireplace and begins to dance with her, but when they kiss she possesses him as she bites off his tongue. Meanwhile, Jay wanders off to find Suzanne, with whom he has sex. During this, she reveals her inner demonic appearance to him and gouges his eyes. The possessed Stooge finds Max and Frannie having sex in a coffin and murders them both. As Sal becomes horrified when he sees Angela putting her hands in the fire, Rodger (who had fallen asleep) is awoken from Helen's body crashing on the car. The two manage to free Judy, but are split up when the now openly demonic Angela chases after them. Hiding from Angela, Sal and Judy discover Suzanne with Jay's body before Sal is thrown out of a window. Judy escapes and she evades the demons throughout the house. When she attempts to climb down and Angela tries to kill her, Sal reemerges to fight her off and they both fall off the roof; with Sal impaled on a spike. Judy and Rodger are chased by the demons, and they lock themselves in the crematorium where they discover the truth of the demonic force. Just as Angela and Stooge break down the door, she uses a pipe funneling gas and ignites it to torch them which drives them away. They escape upstairs and are cornered by the demons, including a burnt Angela and Stooge, and the demon possessed undead bodies of Suzanne, Jay, Max, Frannie, Helen and Sal. Rodger smashes through a window that leads them outside and they begin to climb up a wall by grabbing on the barbed wire around it, but the demons try to drag down Judy by her ankles. Rodger successfully pulls Judy up and they escape over the wall as the sun rises to destroy the possessed corpses and banish the demons back to hell. A severely shaken Judy and Rodger walk home together and they pass by the elderly man who watches them with contempt. He then enters his home to eat one of his wife's homemade pies for breakfast, only to realize too late she used the apples that he placed the razor blades in which he intended to use on Trick-or-Treaters. The blades graphically slice through his throat, killing him; his wife then casually approaches his dead body to kiss his head, saying "Happy Halloween, dear."

Summary adapted from TMDb and Wikipedia sources.

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Content Warnings

⭐ IMDb Parents Guide 🛡️ Common Sense Media

someone is sexually assaulted
spoiler A character fondles their partner then tries to pressure them into sex, insisting that a previous relationship with someone else implies sexual availability. They then lock them in a room when they don't put out. Though there is no actual sexual assault, it could be triggering.
a woman is brutalized for spectacle
Yes
there's domestic violence
spoiler A character is extremely verbally abusive toward his girlfriend and physically threatens her when something scares her.
the abused forgives their abuser
Yes
someone gets gaslighted
Yes
alcohol abuse
Yes
someone uses drugs
Yes
someone is restrained
Yes
a woman gets slapped
Yes
someone's mouth is covered
Yes
there's eye mutilation
Yes
there's excessive gore
Yes
there's body horror
Yes
someone is burned alive
spoiler Two people who are possessed by demons are burned, but they don't die.
there's decapitation
Yes
someone's throat is mutilated
Yes
there's shaving/cutting
spoiler In the last scene razor blades cut through a man's throat
there's cannibalism
spoiler Nobody eats anyone else????
there's amputation
Yes
someone breaks a bone
spoiler Neck gets snapped.
hands are damaged
Yes
somebody is choked
Yes
someone is stabbed
spoiler Impaled by a stake.
someone dislocates something
Yes
someone falls to their death
Yes
Someone becomes unconscious
Yes
a minor is sexualized
spoiler The characters are teenagers and they're sexualized, so I guess so.
a major character dies
Yes
someone dies
Yes
the r-slur is used
Yes
someone cheats
Yes
a family member dies
Yes
there are razors
Yes
someone is possessed
Yes
there's ghosts
Yes
there are jump scares
Yes
There's audio gore
Yes
someone is eaten
Yes
there's farting
Yes
there's spitting
spoiler A character spits out blood after biting another character
there's bisexual cheating
Yes
there's smoke or haze
Yes
someone self harms
Yes
a mentally ill person is violent
Yes
there's a claustrophobic scene
spoiler YES. There are two scenes of people inside of a closed coffin.
there's dissociation, depersonalization, or derealization
Yes
someone has an anxiety attack
Yes
shaky cam is used
spoiler There is absolutely shakey cam. I don't know why people said there isn't. One scene of it even happens under the five minute mark lol.
there's flashing lights or images
spoiler A character brings a strobe light to a party and it flashes during a dance scene.
there's screaming
Yes
there is obscene language/gestures
Yes
there are sudden loud noises
Yes
someone is watched without knowing
Yes
there are homophobic slurs
Yes
there's fat jokes
Yes
there's ableist language or behavior
Yes
someone speaks hate speech
spoiler Gendered slur against indigenous women, a man is verbally abusive toward his girlfriend, and the r-slur is used.
religion is discussed
Yes
there's demons or Hell
Yes
there are incestuous relationships
spoiler No, but a boy (13/14ish?) makes some very 1980s remarks about his older sister's chest. "Bodacious boobs", "big cha-chas", etc.
there is sexual content
Yes
there are nude scenes
Yes
someone is sexually objectified
Yes
a male character is ridiculed for crying
Yes
the ending is sad
Yes
a car honks or tires screech
Yes
there's blood/gore
spoiler A bunch of gore, but not extreme.

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