Demons (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Demons |
| Original title | Demoni 2 - L'incubo ritorna |
| Country of production | Italy |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 1986 |
| length | 84 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Lamberto Bava |
| script | Lamberto Bava Dario Argento Franco Ferrini Dardano Sacchetti |
| production | Dario Argento |
| music | Simon Boswell |
| camera | Gianlorenzo Battaglia |
| cut | Piero Bozza |
| occupation | |
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Demons , also Dance of the Demons 2 (original title: Demoni 2 - L'incubo ritorna ), is an Italian horror film by the director Lamberto Bava from 1986 and, contrary to the German distribution title, the second part of a small film series that began in 1985 with the misleading title Demons 2 started. The film was produced by Dario Argento , who was also involved in the script; it is the debut film by Dario's then ten-year-old daughter Asia .
action
A city in Germany not mentioned by name in the 1980s. A group of young people celebrates a birthday party for the disgruntled Sally at night in the modern, multi-storey residential complex “The Tower”. The birthday child is dissatisfied with his appearance, so decides to stay away from the celebrations and instead holed up in a small room of his luxurious high-rise apartment. At the same time, Sally, like other tenants of the high-rise apartment building, sees a documentary on television about the " rule of demons ", a terrible time in which viewers of an old Berlin cinema mutated into monsters and stalked survivors in the legendary "forbidden zone" they terrorized. The demon attack ended in a brutal bloodbath.
When a clumsy group of four adventurers brings a cruel demon to life on the television screen and is punished with death for it, a traditional prophecy becomes reality, which says that a transformation into bloodthirsty demons is imminent. It is the beginning of that reign of demons - the long-awaited end-time scenario. In parallel to the events on the screen, the reawakened monster makes it into the real world. His first victim is Sally, who is exposed to physical decline as an infected person, is also transformed into a demon and, in search of prey, attacks and decimates her birthday party. Their victims also turn into bloodthirsty creatures within a very short time. The resulting crowd of demons greed for human flesh and from then on threatened the residents and visitors of the high-rise.
After a power failure caused by the bloodthirsty creatures, there are no more ways to escape and a group of survivors is trapped in the electronically sealed building. The trapped try desperately to flee from the demon brood, but they soon have to realize that evil is omnipresent and does not stop at animals, children or pregnant women. While physics student Georg is trapped in the elevator with the infected Mary and soon has to fight her off, his pregnant friend Hannah is fighting a demonized boy in her apartment. In a third storyline, residents of the house entrench themselves with an illustrious group of athletes under the direction of dark-skinned Hank in the underground car park , where, after constant attacks by the hordes of demons, the final, deadly argument ensues.
At the end of the film, George ropes down with his heavily pregnant Hannah - before he managed to get through to her - from the roof of the skyscraper to a neighboring building that houses a television studio. Pursued by the demonized Sally, Hannah gives birth to her son here. After Sally is switched off, the small family leaves the building in the early hours of the morning and looks confidently into an uncertain future.
background
The shooting of the genre production, which was budgeted for around 1.5 million US dollars, took place in Hamburg, Frankfurt / Main and Rome from mid-May to the end of June 1986. Compared to the precursor which made it only into the video analysis, came demons in German cinemas on 9 July 1987th Almost six months later, on January 26, 1988, the video premiere took place.
For the soundtrack, in addition to Peter Murphy and the Australian music group Dead Can Dance, mainly British new wave bands such as The Smiths , The Cult , Art of Noise were engaged in this sequel , in contrast to the metal bands of the predecessor.
In 2019 Rustblade Records will release Claudio Simonetti's soundtrack along with a comic about the film and its sequel Dèmoni 2 ... L'incubo returns (always directed by Lamberto Bava): Dèmoni - Il Regno delle Tenebre. The comic book by Andrea Gallo Lassere and Simona Simone also includes a color illustration by cartoonist Lola Airaghi. In March 2013 the film was removed from the index. A re-examination is still pending.
publication
On April 30, 2012 Arrow Films released the film along with its predecessor " Demons 2 " on Blu-ray . As a bonus, the third part "Demons 3" is included in the form of a comic book, drawn by Stefan Hutchinson. He also ran with "Demons 2" on the Grimm Up North on March 29, 2012 in Manchester.
Reviews
"Horror shocker striving for originality with self-deprecating approaches, but who betrays his subtle basic idea of crude shock and disgust effects."
Web links
- Demons in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Demons in the online movie database
- Demons at rotten tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b costs on IMDb.com
- ↑ Filming locations on IMDb.com
- ^ Demons in the Lexicon of International Films
- ↑ Hutchinson and Keating Deliver DEMONS 3 Comics ( Memento of the original from April 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on fangoria.com
- ↑ Sink Your Claws Into a Sneak Peek At Demons 3 on dreadcentral.com
- ↑ UK Readers: Grimm Up North Hosting a Masters of Horror Demons / Demons 2 Double Bill. March 29. on dreadcentral.com
- ↑ Demons. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed November 3, 2017 .
