Dèmoni 2... l'incubo ritorna

Plot synopsis:
The film opens as if the events of the first film took place in reality, but this is actually a film within a film, that the various residents of a high-rise apartment building are watching. Its story follows several teens trespass into a city that was deserted as a result of the outbreak. Finding the lifeless corpse of a demon, one of the teens revives it accidentally by dripping blood from a scratch into its mouth.
In reality, frustrated party girl Sally Day locks herself in her bedroom when her boyfriend doesn't attend her sixteenth birthday party. As her friends try to persuade her to return to the party, she watches part of the film on television. Suddenly, the demon notices her, climbs through the television and attacks her. Sally is transformed into a demon, then attacks her friends, turning all but two of them into vile, bloodthirsty monsters.
The creatures' bile begins to seep through the building, burning through the ceiling and into other apartments and shorting out the electrical system. In one apartment, a dog licks up the bile and transforms into a vicious beast that attacks and kills its owner. A young boy left alone by his parents manages to avoid Sally and her rampaging demon friends, but is ultimately poisoned by the bile and becomes a monster. The demon boy attacks Hannah, a pregnant woman waiting for her husband to come home. She manages to kill the demon boy, but a flying demon bursts out of his body to further terrorize her. Her husband, George, has been trapped in the elevator with another woman. They plan to escape through a service hatch, but a demon bursts through the elevator door and infects the woman. She in turn attacks George but he is able to kill her before making his way to his and Hannah's apartment in time to kill the flying demon with an umbrella.
Meanwhile, a group of bodybuilders led by gym instructor Hank have barricaded themselves in the underground car park, along with a group of tenants. Unable to break down the garage doors, they decide to stand their ground and try to defend themselves with makeshift weapons, such as Molotov cocktails and a few shotguns. The demons eventually make it down to the garage and force their way in. Although they heavily outnumber the demons, the uninfected are relatively easily defeated and are either turned into demons themselves or killed.
The infected start making their way back up the building. George causes a leak in the gas pipes and causes an explosion that kills all the infected except Sally. Hannah and George search for a way out and go into Sally's apartment, finding the original two partygoers that had hidden. The group make their way to the roof but are stopped by Sally. She infects the two partygoers but George manages to dispatch them. George and Hannah lower themselves to the roof of an adjacent building, fighting Sally as they go. Inside the neighboring building Hannah gives birth to the couple's child. George defeats the resilient Sally in mortal combat, and he and Hannah make their way outside with their newborn child.

Tags: paranormal, violence, cult, cruelty, sadist

Review:
The early stuff with the group investigating the ruins of the city is pretty creepy but this all gives way to some hilarious dialogue, and a classic bout between demons and fitness buffs in the building's parking garage makes me smile every time.
Apparently somebody made a movie about the first incident, and it is this movie that "infects" a new building filled with badly-dubbed Italian actors.The make-up effects are quite good, and the demons pretty unsettling.
Unfortunately the screenwriters arranged it so that all the windows are unbreakable, and the electric doors unable to be opened.The movie also breaks some horror movie taboos as children were surprisingly made into victims.On a lighter note, I would also say that this is the first horror movie I have ever seen (barring Antichrist/Second Coming films)in which a  character goes into labor while fighting demons.An entertaining horror movie.....Never looked at my watch once..
In a residential building, demons are released though a television horror film, where two couples visit the forbidden area nearby the Metropol movie theater to seek vestiges of the demon infestation some time ago and accidentally resurrect one demon.
While in original picture the scary events occur when selected at random , people on the street are invited to an advance screen of a new horror movie , as a group of people are trapped in a large movie theater in West Berlin and then a prostitute is bitten turning into a lethal demon , here in ¨Demons 2¨, deeds happen in Hamburgo buildings .
This international hit smash allowed him to co-write, produce and direct this sequel, Demons II (1986) that was also successful and turned out to be a certain improvement here and there on previous film ; however, being inferior follow-up .
Lamberto Bava's "Demons" is easily one of the most popular Italian horror films ever made along with Dario Argento's gialli and Lucio Fulci's zombie bloodbaths.In "Demons 2" the action moves from a cinema to a high-rise block of flats;a documentary in which a team of archaeologists explore the ruins of the city besieged by demons in the first film is showing on TV.As the team are attacked by a resurrected demon,the creature forces its way out of a TV set and into the real world,infecting the unlucky residents of the building and transforming them into bloodthirsty demons."Demoni 2" is not as gory as "Demoni".It plays more like a campy comedy as it features some truly hilarious moments.The special effects are surprisingly tacky and amateurish(demon dog and demon baby look especially horrible),the script is silly,but the film is fast-paced and mildly entertaining.The score by Simon Boswell is sleep-inducing compared to the one Claudio Simonetti gave us in the first.At least we get some lovely songs by Dead Can Dance,The Smiths and The Cult.If you are a fan of "Demons" you can give this one a look,just don't expect anything as great as the original.7 out of 10..
Story= There is a party in an apartment complex, when people watch a horror movie on TV, demons start coming out of the screen and attacking people.
The plot is nonexistent, the music poor (apart from one Simon Boswell song), it's not scary in the least; it's just not that good.Easily the worst film Dario Argento has been involved with and Lamberto Bava's also (Bava has a cameo in this film, not a very funny one).Maybe 3 is too high a rating, but at least I could watch it all and didn't think of stopping midway.
Lamberto Bava's sequel to his cult classic Demons (1985) is one uproariously hokey horror movie, but it's certainly entertaining.
Also look for a young Asia Argento (Dario's daughter) in a small role.All around a fun camp horror film, best taken with no seriousness at all!*** out of ****.
Dario Argento and Lamberto Bava team up again from the first film and deliver exactly the same kind of badly-dubbed formula that we know and love from DEMONS.The acting is average but this time around the actors playing the demons are hugely over-acting - take for instance the main female demon, who contorts her face and pulls lots of stupid expressions in a vain attempt to be scary.
Production values are pretty good (that's where the three stars come from) but wasted since there aren't any characters to care about and no plot to speak of - just splashing a lot of blood around, lots of screaming and pace-killing cuts between the movie on TV and the victims in the building.
Making even less sense than its predecessor, this quickly produced sequel to the Lamberto Bava movie DEMONS (1985) is incredibly dumb; throughout the movie, I was unsure as to whether the makers had set out to make a scary horror and failed, or whether the silly, confusing crap-fest that they ended up with was intentional.
Either way, the movie is a disappointing sequel, but one which still manages to be quite entertaining due to its complete daftness.For reasons that defy logical explanation, a demon emerges through a television-set in a high-tech tower block.
Gathering together in an apartment building, guests are hypnotized watching a TV show about demons, and when the demons come to life and slowly picking off the remaining humans inside, it becoming a fight for survival against the bloodthirsty creatures to get out of the building alive.While the original was one of the best Italian horror films at the time, this one is just as good.
The attack on the party guests is an absolute blast with all sorts of stellar action as she rips them to pieces, the encounter between the lone woman and her transformed dog in her apartment is one of the best examples as it's a series of small sequences that is quite fun and the massacre in the parking lot is a perfect example as it occurs within a large amount of time and allows for several great sequences starting with them appearing in the weight room and chasing them down into the garage where the full extent of the fun takes place.
There's still a demon outbreak that results from watching a movie about the creatures, the disbelieving horde struggles to get a grasp on the creatures, there's a group of punks on the outside traveling to the location with the creatures and they even smash through a barricade set up to stop them which were all plot-points and ideas from the original.
It's therefore not entirely an original sequel but at least it manages to be just as much fun to watch as its predecessor.The first movie was set in a movie theater, this one in an apartment building.
The first movie did so many things right and this sequel is basically redoing all of those moments again, in a bit of a different fashion, to keep things at least a bit fresh and still good and interesting to watch.Nothing in its story is explained really and things just happen in it.
at the end of demons 1 was a great opportunity too make this great post apocalyptic zombie ghoul epic sequel,i think they should of followed up with,instead the sequel was in fact sort of the same premise from the first as this kind of reversed siege film.Lamberto Brava should of continued where demons 1 left off but this isn't bad at all!i enjoyed it a great deal and the gore is off the chain!big shout out too Bobby Rhodes,playing nearly the same character as he played in the original demons!i'm a huge horror film fanatic and this is one of the best horror sequels out there ands down.up there with evil dead 2!and not too mention one of the best out of the Italian gore film sub genre.if you like horror films,do yourself a favour and see demons 1 and 2 immediately!!.
One of the hotel residents watches a broadcast and sure enough,carnage ensues.Naturally most characters only exist to provide monster fodder, generally they're unmemorable.The "sequel escalation" trope is in effect here since both a demonic dog (Inuyasha's relative?) and some manner of gremlin-esquire critter make appearances, while the potential victims are more heavily armed.Essentially a mindless gory movie, "Demons 2" is a decent time waster and is likely more enjoyable to gorehounds..
Bava's sequel, 1986's "Demons 2," suffers from many of those same flaws but seems to be more successful, if only because we actually get to know some of the characters a bit better this time.
The story has a party about to start, a bunch of people exercising in a gym in the building and other people, then a strange program comes on the television chronicling a group of people determined to go into a restricted part of town, the place the demons overran in the first movie.
When a young woman named Sally Day (Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni) turned into a demon and affecting her guests after watching an horror movie on TV!
We also get treated with a bunch of the same actors you'll recognize from the original, as well as little Asia Argento in one of her very first roles!What leaves the movie with a mediocre rating, is the dialogue and "plot" aside from the demons taking over.
I may be wrong but to me you can see what Argento was trying to achieve.The obvious floor with the zombie movies was that you could run circles around them.Argento tried to keep you on the edge of your seat not by the intricate story lines nor by the gory effects but by the fact that these monsters aren't dead so therefore can catch you and all they have to do is knick you and you'll soon be one of them.I would agree with the good man before me that the first is better and does have a better atmosphere.And i do know what he means when he talks about the demon coming out of the telly,that takes it from possible reality horror to total fantasy horror.
This fast sequel to the great success of Demons is also right, but it repeats the same formula only that changing the cinema for a modern intelligent building.that´s almost the only difference and some special effects are worse than in the first movie, I refer to that demon which emerges from the back of the boy and which seems like a puppet from "Sesame street", but gore scenes are ok although there are much less here and there is one curious aspect: Some actors from the first part appear now again only that taking different roles.
This rather tiresome sequel to the 1986 Italian horror hit has some clever ideas (I liked the concept of a demon entering our dimension through a TV screen) and the special effects range from simply good to jaw-dropping, but the structure is awfully repetitive.
And Also Too Dario Argento's Daughter Asia Argento Starts in This Sequel As Sally The First Main Character That Gets infected By a Zombie That Comes Out of Her T.V. in Her Room And Spreads The infection To The Rest Of The Residence Peoples, And Also i Was impressed That Lamberto Bava Manage Get To Bring Back The Black Guy From The First "DEMONS" Movie Played By Bobby Rhodes And He Has a More Larger Screen Time This Time.
It turns out to be a film-within-a-film, with 'reality' taking place in an apartment block as loathsome teenage brat Sally Day (Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni) locks herself in a room during a birthday party tantrum to watch the movie on her television.
There's also the matter of the ending making little sense and a scene in which an unexplained demon monster thingy that looks like a discarded prop from Troll bursts out of the chest of an infected young boy, in a special effect so bad you wonder why on Earth the film-makers left it in.
what great fun this sequel was.it's as disgustingly gory as the original,and it's more campy,and faster paced.there is more intentional humour in this one.the dialogue is hysterical at times,as is the acting.many of the same people from the first one appear here,playing totally different characters.the hard pumping heavy metal score so prevalent in the first one,is noticeably less used in this movie.i think this is actually as good as the first,maybe a bit better,due to it's humour.it's not for the faint of heart though,because as i mentioned,it is pretty disgusting.the whole thing is mostly a preposterous mess,but who cares.this is just one bloody good time..
Demons 2 is standard sequel to a good horror film.
This time it has more of a story line and is much more fast-paced.Obviously it has its faults but what horror movie suits everyone?!This movie has it all for me - frights (a highlight is definitely the demon emerging from the t.v set and sally's transformation), surprises (a child-demon) and a little humour (the "demon-dog" is still one of my favourite characters, always makes me smile)If you like good old cheesy horror films then this is the film for you.
She is so pretty in Land of the Dead.On the real, even though this movie is a low budget film, all i can say that it wasn't that bad like everyone else think it is because i thought Dario did a good job on this film.
Director/co-writer Lamberto Bava shows a winning dearth of competence throughout as the story becomes more increasingly inane and gut-busting as it unfolds, with such gloriously inane highlights as a birthday party which degenerates into a bloodbath, a woman attacked in her apartment by her savage possessed dog, a hokey demon puppet bursting out of a little boy's stomach, whiny party gal Sally (the pretty Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni) taking a massive licking, but keeps on ticking, a gaggle of dim-witted male and female body builders with an appalling lack of intelligence, an underground parking garage littered with axes and a shotgun, and pregnant damsel in distress Hannah (the fetching Nancy Brilli) going into labor at a most inopportune moment.
This relentlessly absurd follow-up to Lamberto Bava's solid cult classic certainly doesn't boast as many top-shelf gross-out moments as the original, but if you're in the mood for a mindless blood-fest with loads of unintentional comedy, there's plenty of fun to be had here.The action unfolds inside a swanky high-rise apartment complex, in which seemingly every tenant in the building is raptly watching a docu-film about the aftermath of the monstrous infestation we saw in the first Demons.
Once she's finished slaughtering a roomful of friends on hand to celebrate her birthday, she begins oozing acidic blood, which melts through the floor into the apartments below hers, infecting all who come in contact with it and triggering a full-on demon uprising.The film then basically jumps back into the dynamic of the first movie, with creatures prowling their way through the building attacking everyone they find, and the panicked prey (who are trapped inside the complex because of a power outage, which makes all of the exit doors impossible to open for some reason) fighting back any way they can.
This sense of deja vu is bolstered by the presence of Bobby Rhodes, who also appeared in the original Demons, and even though he's playing a completely different character this time out, his function and actions as the order-barking de facto leader in Demons 2 are nearly identical to what we saw him do the first time the creatures struck.If you still intend to take this movie seriously after reading my brief plot synopsis, good luck trying because the whole film is pretty much wall-to-wall silliness.
Sally turns into a demon and it doesn't take long before the other party-goers do the same.Sure the story is a bit silly and there are quite a few more plot holes than the first one had but that doesn't mean it's bad, another factor I loved about this was that it has the same feel as the first It also has some of the same actors in it as well -- the guy that played the pimp in the first movie returns as a gym instructor, and the leader of the punk gang (Lino Salemme) returns as a security guard.
The demon then comes out of the TV and possesses Sally.The great thing about these movies is the transformation part.
A documentary is shown on TV of group of teens who investigate the legendary forbidden zone, in which a Demon infestation once took place.When finding a lifeless corpse of a demon, one of the teens causes the resurrection of it, by spilling some of their blood and the demon makes it's way into the nearby world by TV-broadcast.An unlucky girl, having her birthday-party at that time, gets possessed by the demon while watching the documentary and soon the entire building in which she lives turns into a living nightmare....It's exactly the same as the first one, only this time its set in an apartment block, ad a dog and a child get demonised.It's still slickly made, and of course the dubbing is truly awful, especially when you know half of the cast are talking English, but we watch these films for the sheer audacity of the whole proceedings.We have oiled body builders in a car park, one of the most boring birthday parties going,and some really weird little gremlin chasing after a pregnant woman.The main problem with the film is that it's just not scary, and the make up isn't as good as the first movie, but it's still watchable, just not memorable.But it does feature the most inappropriate music to accompany a birth scene I have ever heard, and that alone is worth watching the film for....
The first Demons is a great horror movie (See my review) so I watched the sequel and it was quite good.
The Demons then roam the complex killing anyone in sight as the people inside try to escape since the doors are locked during the attack.Not a bad film, the gore is good and the plot is OK.