Night of the Demons

Plot synopsis:
Maddie Curtis and her friends Lilly and Suzanne are ready for a great Halloween night. Theyre going to a party thrown by their friend Angela at the notorious Broussard Mansion in New Orleans. Over eighty years ago, six people disappeared from the mansion without a trace and the owner, Evangeline Broussard, hung herself.The dark history only serves to enhance the Broussard Mansions appeal on Halloween. At the decadent, out-of-control party, Maddie and Lily run into their exes, Colin and Dex, while Suzanne parties it up. Good times end, however, when the police bust up the party. After the rest of the guests leave, Angela, Maddie, Lily, Dex, Colin, Suzanne and their friend Jason discover a horrible secret. Their cell phones dont work. The mansion gates are now mysteriously locked. Soon it becomes clear that supernatural forces are at work at the Broussard Mansion, and that there may be more to the tale of Evangeline Broussard than anyone knew.It turns out that the Broussard Mansion is home to demons that need to possess seven vessels to break free of an ancient curse. One by one the guests fall victim, transforming into hideous creatures. Only Maddie, Colin and Jason remain but can they make it through the night and keep evil forces from spreading into the worldFULL SYNOPSIS :-The movie opens in 1925, with scenes of gore and demons. Evangeline Broussard prepares to hang herself from her balcony when she is stopped by a man trying to reassure her that he is truly Louis and that she shouldnt hang herself. Evangeline calls him a liar, then jumps, hanging herself and also causing her head to rip off and bounce down the stairs. Louis stares over the balcony as his eyes switch to a demonic shade of orange.Modern day, Maddi (Monica Keena) is preparing to go to a party held by Angela (Shannon Elizabeth). Along with her friends, Lily (Diora Baird) and Suzanne (Bobbi Sue Luther), Maddie arrives at the party. She realizes her ex-boyfriend, Colin (Edward Furlong) is there, dealing drugs as he has been threatened by his drug lord to sell enough drugs at Angelas party in order to pay double what he normally gets or die. Also there is Lily's ex-boyfriend Dex (Michael Copon) and his friend Jason (John F. Beach). As the party progresses, Angela prompts everyone to go wild, as she must make money off the party or she will have to live on the streets. Lily and Dex eventually reunite in an upstairs bedroom, while Suzanne becomes incredibly drunk. While Maddie is hanging out with Jason, she goes to the toilet only to have a hand grab her through the mirror. As she attempts to show Suzanne, they pass it off as an elaborate trick placed by Angela.Soon after, the police break up the party, stating Angela neglected to get a party permit and that it doesn't qualify as a private party since she was charging admission. Panicked, Colin stuffs his drugs into a grate to hide it from the police, before leaving. Maddie, Lily, Dex and Jason leave with the rest of the partiers, leaving an upset Angela alone in the house. After a while, the group return, unable to find Suzanne, who reveals herself to have passed out. Colin also returns for his drugs, and along with Angela goes into the basement to find them. When the pair instead find a hidden door, Angela remarks that the house is full of hidden rooms, including a tunnel that leads to the next estate over. They enter the room and find six skeletons. Joined by the rest of the group, Angela assumes that the skeletons are the remains of the missing party guests of Evangeline Broussard.Angela discovers a gold tooth in one of the skeletons, but when she tries to take it the skeleton bites her hand. As they all head upstairs, Angela starts to feel woozy, and Colin attempts to leave the house, only to discover that the gate is locked and cant be opened even with the keys to the house. While everyone plans to wait the night out, Suzanne details how Evangeline supposedly practiced black magic in the hopes that she would attract the attentions of Louis, only to have that magic go wrong during a séance. The only person found alive was the maid, who was found in her room scribbling spells on her walls, having been driven insane by the previous nights events.Angela slowly succumbs to the skeleton bite, and enters a bathroom where she turns into a demon. She returns to the group, who partake in a game of spin the bottle. Eventually, Angela infects Dex by kissing him. Lily angrily leads Dex into a nearby room, where the pair soon have sex. Dex turns into a demon, savaging Lily in the process with his demonic, tentacled penis and turning her into a demon. Meanwhile, Angela attempts to seduce the others. Maddie and Colin leave to find another exit, closely followed by Jason who flees when Angela attempts to seduce him. Outside, the trio are unable to find another exit and begin to head back to the house. Angela succeeds in luring Suzanne into a surrounding room where she proceeds to dance with her, eventually showing herself as a demon, before ripping off Suzanne's breasts and face, turning her into a demon.Upon returning to the mansion, Jason goes to the bathroom where he comes upon Lily acting strangely, only to then witness her pressing her lipstick into her breast then voiding it out through her vagina accompanied by prolific amounts of blood. He warns the others who do not believe him until a demonic Suzanne attacks them. Jason stabs her, yet there is little effect. Escaping, they run into the demonic Angela who stops them from leaving the house. They decide to leave through the house's escape tunnel. On there way, they arm themselves with a gun and a rusty metal bar. While in the tunnel, they discover the tunnel has caved in, before being attacked by Lily and Dex. They manage to fend off the demons, however Jason succumbs to a severe injury on his leg. The survivors run into an upstairs room and tend to Jason's injury. They realize that not only are they in the maids room but that the symbols remained on the walls under a layer of plaster. They also discover that the demons are attempting to take over seven human hosts in order to be freed upon the earth, having been thrown out of hell for trying to usurp Satan's rule. They also discover that the demons tricked Evangeline into hosting the party so they could take over the guests and that the demons cant take over a dead body, which is why Evangeline hung herself. They also find out that the demons dont like rust, finding that they can use it as a weapon.As the boys fall asleep, Angela taunts Maddie, however she is unable to enter the room due to the spells. Suddenly the walls begin pouring with blood, washing off the spells. The trio attempt to re-draw them onto the walls as the demons hands puncture through the walls. They manage to defeat the demons by re-drawing the spells, however are lured out of the rooom by the demons who fake daylight in the windows. They realize it is not daylight, before the demons attack them. Maddie and Colin rush back to the room, however Jason is caught and disemboweled by Angela, turning him into a demon.As Maddie grieves her friends, Colin is attacked by Dex in the attached bathroom, allowing the pair to realize the bathroom is not protected by the spell. As they plan to wait in the room until sunrise, Colin falls through the rotten floorboards, falling many floors into the basement. Maddie climbs down a rope into the basement to help Colin, who has broken his leg. As she helps, she is attacked by a now demonized Colin.Maddie manages to get back to the maid's room and arms herself with the gun found earlier, loading it with rusty items. She manages to fight back the demons, however runs out of ammo. She barricades herself inside a room and makes her way to the second story balcony, where she ties a rope around her neck and jumps over, seemingly hanging herself. As the sun rises, the demons are eliminated. Maddie reveals that she has only pretended to hang herself, having tied the rope around her waist, and that the demons merely assumed that she was dead. With the demons gone, Maddie is then able to exit through the gates to her freedom.

Tags: violence, flashback

Review:
Some go straight to DVD, some to the theatres, some with big budgets, some with small.Although well versed in cinema and movies, the original 'Night of the Demons' has evaded my radar and so I had no memories of the original 80's film (soon to be watched though).Regardless of whether the original was a good film or not, this updated version is a waste of time.
Edward Furlong is clearly in it for the money and you can sense that he knows he has yet again signed up to appear in something cheap and crap.The film premise is simple...party goers at an old abandoned house discover skeletons in the basement.
The next time, if you are going to call something a remake with the same title as another movie, you may want to use some of the original plot lines from the older version.
I remember watching the original "Night of the Demons" back in the late 80's, so I had somewhat mixed feelings about this movie.
But overall, the story was predictable and somewhat stale, even if you haven't seen the original movie.The effects and the setting was quite alright, and the demons did looks alright, I will give them that much.There was a sex scene in the movie that made me almost still my coffee.
And another familiar face is Shannon Elizabeth, though her performance in the movie seemed more like it was some project she just wanted to get over with.I suppose for people who haven't seen the original "Night of the Demons", this movie will be quite a blast.
Being a smaller than normal budget film and having to mediocre stars in Furlong and Elizabeth as leads did nothing for this movie.
Hey, perhaps if all remakes were as unpretentious and amusing as "Night of the Demons", people wouldn't complain so much about the deterioration of the horror genre in general This one is several hundred miles away from being a good or even semi-memorable horror movie, but it's entertaining while it lasts and offers plentiful of adequate make-up effects, a suitably light-headed atmosphere and a whole lot of yummy voluptuous actresses in revealing Halloween costumes!
The original "Night of the Demons", as well as both of its sequels released during the 1990's, was a very simplistic and unpretentious little flick also and it's rather easy to accomplish a present day update for the post-2000 horror audiences by making just a few minor changes left and right.
The titular night still refers to the Halloween celebration, but instead of an abandoned funeral home like in the original, the party mansion is now a sinister family estate where once – in the roaring 20's – a horrible tragedy occurred when a desperate woman tried to win the love of a man trough a séance, but she ended up awakening seven demons that were even exiled from hell for being too bloodthirsty.
"Night of the Demons" also features two relatively washed up stars of the 90's in the shape of Shannon Elizabeth and Edward Furlong.
Night of the Demons (2009) * 1/2 (out of 4) Remake of the 1987 cult classic has a group of people throwing a party in a mysterious house where decades earlier a Halloween party was thrown and six people disappeared.
I wasn't overly crazy about the original film but this remake is a complete mess from the word go and by the fifteen-minute mark the thing is out of gas and it was rather painful to make it through to the end.
Firstly, the plot of this film slightly differs from the NIGHT OF THE DEMONS from 1987 that we all know and love.
Even the sex scenes and gratuitous girl-on-girl kissing scenes are as unsexy as they can be.Speaking of disgusting, the famous lipstick scene is reenacted in a much more repulsive manner, which (like everything else in the film) seems to be done for the sake of being disgusting.ZERO stars, NOTHING to recommend, not even of a "so bad it's fun" level -- a crappy movie you'll regret paying for.
The acting was nothing to write home about but I found Edward Furlong (the kid from Terminator 2) really looking and acting the part of the messed up, desperate, drug dealer-addict (how much acting was involved is another question ;) The girl playing Maddie was fine and I found the goth hostess of the party, Shannon Elizabeth, pretty appealing and seductive.
I even felt a bit sorry for her.The plot itself involving demons having to corrupt and possess several people on Halloween night in an enclosed manor was serviceable, and had a few nice twists, and a few bad ones near the end as well.
Pretty fun B-movie fare with above-average directing, yet once the survivors got in a room protected by spells, things started going badly.
Definitely not the hottie "Nadia" in the first 2 American Pie films, or sexy like her Maxim Days or for that matter, Scary Movie.
A large part of the problem being the excessive gratuity of the elements thrown in to "spice things up", especially the gore that it feels tasteless.A lot of the film completely fails to make sense, both in underdeveloped plot elements and often nonsensical and confusing character motivations.
So I have an idea, let's take some actors/actresses that were mildly popular at one time but everyone will recognize and put them in a remake of an 80's horror movie!
Nothing even remotely like the original Night of the Demons, the film just seems clumsy and uninspired.
Oh, and Edward Furlong and Shannon Elizabeth grant us with their presence but it feels like they needed work and accepted the first offer they got..
Which is a shame really, because he could've carried this Remake.It's a long time since I last saw the Original, which wasn't the greatest Horror movie ever, but still pretty decent (especially for the money it did cost).
I've never seen the original movie Night Of The Demons; many people compare this 2009 version with the 1980s version.
Director Adam Gierasch gives a mediocre to decent view on the remake of the 1986 film Night of the Demons.
This remake does have something going for it though; insanely catchy metal soundtrack, some cute teenage girls, no CGI, no Michael Bay, and Eddie Furlong.If Eddie Furlong wasn't in this film it wouldn't have been wouldn't have been half as good as it was.
Someone take this girl FAR away from teen parties.Starring: Shannon Elizabeth, Monica Keena, Bobbi Sue Luther, John F.
'NIGHT OF THE DEMONS': Two and a Half Stars (Out of Five)   Low budget Halloween horror film from director Adam Gierasch,  co-written by Gierasch and Jace Anderson.
It stars an assortment of B movie stars and  has-beens (like Shannon Elizabeth and Edward Furlong).
I haven't seen the original film or it's sequels so  I don't know how this remake compares but as far as other B horror  films go I'd say it's pretty average..
Night of the Demons (2009) (Never seen the old one) I was really looking forward to see this movie and it was NOT let down..As a lot Drinking, sex, Boobs and some gory scenes (not a lot) and some good scarce scene, which did make me jump and some really funny moments as wells .
It's only a couple of hours more but Angela and her minions have some tricks up their sleeve as well.Night of the Demons is just what you expect and want from a remake of the classic 80s movie.
There is likely a very good reason for that...it stinks.Like nearly ALL the endless remakes and reboots that have been plaguing movie goers for the past decade or so....all this is, is a heartless version of the original.It has no heart.It has no soul.It is a retelling of a film that we all love and cherish...and it adds nothing to the story.
It improves nothing but the special effects--which held up very well over time--and in some cases belittles the fans of the original...particularly in the fact that they remade the movie at all, without adding anything clever to it.Like so many other remakes it is a hallow shell of the original..
That's the break when you collect with the actresses in mind, it's way often not your kind of fun, but you're insisting on that girl, and that one, and that one...Somewhere here, in a review or a board post, I read somebody commenting on Shannon's performance, putting her down, as basically a half-hearted participant in this movie, looking like she doesn't want to be a part of it.
I really enjoyed this film,good effects good acting good plot,of course the first one was better but get over it already, we need to see some new stuff,when i saw the new nightmare on elm street without Robert England i almost had a heart attack...then i got over it...So if you want to see a good horror flick watch this and you wont regret it,i didn't and neither did my friends,it was fun it was funny it was a bit scary it was good!Furlong was pretty good,Monika was better before her lip surgery,Bobby Sue was a bomb and Diora was pretty and i think that she is way better with the blonde hair not the brown.I really liked the Jason character because he was calm and innocent,Shannon was okay but i prefer her without all that Gothic dark bad look,i really liked the original Angela from the original movie,now that was one hell of a costume and really scary,where did that actress go?She wasn't in the second movie and that was a shame because she was a great Angela!!.
The original Night of the Demons (1988) was a trashy, low budget B-movie horror in which a coherent plot and decent direction proved far less important than its cheapo monsters, gore, and titillation courtesy of scream queen Linnea Quigley, and babes Jill Terashita and Cathy Podewell.
This remake opts for the same lowbrow approach, but manages to be much more fun thanks to slicker (and sicker) special effects, a decent pace, better performances, a willingness to get nice 'n' twisted, and even hotter women (Diora Baird, dressed in a basque and fishnets as a sexy cat, is stunning, while Bobbi Sue Luther's breasts steal every scene they are in).The film starts off in cracking form with a sepia-toned flashback in which Evangeline Broussard, the owner of a New Orleans mansion, gives herself a bit too much rope to hang herself, her head popping off as a result.
Let's just say demons like it rough.Writer-director Adam Gierasch made sure not to step on the original, working more in the spirit than doing a direct remake.
(And actually, doing a remake probably brought more attention to the original than it's seen in years.) The film is great by remake standards, probably outdoing the first, in my opinion, while still making references to the original (like the lipstick scene).The film is packed with genre and cult favorites: Tiffany Shepis, Edward Furlong ("Brainscan"), Linnea Quigley (who appeared in the original) and more.
Modern horror fans should eat this right up.I felt that this movie was filmed very much in the style of Adam Green's "Hatchet", which I mean in the nicest way possible.
All in all, this is a pop corn movie for generation "X" ers who'd like to reminisce of horror from the good old days..
Now it is going to be one of hell of a night to stay alive instead of the great party, they thought it was going to be.Directed by Adam Gierasch made an amusing, trashy, horror movie with an sense of humour.
This movie has an game cast, good special effects Make-Up designs and it is hard to hate an feature like this.
The only feeling this film will evoke is a vague sense of embarrassment for Edward Furlong, even he doesn't deserve to be associated with this.The original is just a rehash of Evil Dead only with 200% more 80's, but was good fun.
After a canceled Halloween party in a supposedly haunted mansion, a group of stranded revelers find a race of deadly demons have possessed their friends and looking doing the same to them, forcing them to fight off the beings in order to get away alive.This is an absolutely fun and enjoyable entry, so there's a ton of things going for it and barely any flaws.
Taking place in a creepy Gothic mansion, the atmosphere here is incredible and makes great use of secret passageways, hidden markings along the rooms, and the decorations for a Halloween party strung up all over the house all make for some fantastic scenery, which is a lot of fun and really gives the film a lot of tension during the chase scenes.
Night of the Demons (2009) is a horror film from the United States and directed by Adam Gierasch.
Night Of The Demons horror movie is quite creepy, thrilling, funny, and Vulgar ..
I haven't watched the original NIGHT OF THE DEMONS yet so I can't comment on this film's status as a remake, but what I can say is that it's a pretty poor and entirely ordinary horror movie.
There isn't as much gore as you'll expect, and virtually nothing to remember the film by.I admit that I got a kick out of seeing Edward Furlong in this movie.
The original Night of the Demons was one of my favorite movies growing up.
I never was really into the hype of the original Night Of The Demons but once it came clear that a remake was going to be made I immediately thought, well what could they do better.
The original and even the sequel are just good B horror movie fun, and this was just garbage..
The writers apparently decided to 'fix' a few things with the original plot, but in the end they deliver a comfortably typical horror movie.In the original, there was no reason why the demons should have failed to kill/possess all the kids.
From the early mirror scene, I could tell that the director knew that he was making a cliché demon/slasher/horror movie, and it's a remake to boot.
The original Night of the Demons, when I first saw it, I thought it was terrible.
Instead, the police show up, bust the party, and through very stupid reasons, the main people all end up back inside, and the gate somehow locks them in.This movie is infamous, much like old 80's horror films, for the constantly changing outside of the house.
You see very little of Angela.This one does try to give reasoning and a story behind everything happening, and why the demons are there....when it does come out, of course, it feels like cliché crap, although Furlong has some very good lines about stuff like that.Overall, it was made much like the movies of the 80's were, just more polished and neat looking, but still shitty.
A-Z Horror Movie of the Day..."Night of the Demons" (R - 2009 - US)Sub-Genre: Paranormal/DemonMy Score: 5.4Cast=6 Acting=3 Plot=6 Ending=8 Story=5 Scare=5 Jump=6 F/X=3 Creep=4 Twist=8Maddie Curtis and her friends Lilly and Suzanne are ready for a great Halloween night.
They're going to a party thrown by their friend Angela at the notorious Broussard Mansion in New Orleans...only to have to face down a group of demons.
i have some tendency to watch movies including demons coz i always imagine some really kool monster thing, but recently (the last 10 years maybe) the people in charge don't seem to have creative or original ideas about what demons should look like.
Add a sub plot involving Furlong and a drug dealer is silly and uncalled for.Having never seen the original movie, I cannot comment on how worse or better this movie is, but i feel it's the former.Only Elizabeth puts any real effort into her role, and she is looking a little too old to be in these sort of movies.The rest of the cast are horror fodder, and are picked off one by one in ever predictable ways.I don't know whether the film is trying to be funny, or is that bad it's laughable, but at some point you cannot decide whether it's going all out horror or tongue in cheek.And a little plot twist, pulled off by the demons, just goes to show that the group are stupid, when on earth does it light at six in the morning on the 1st of November?
I'm a big fan of Night of the Demons - the original trilogy, which except for the last movie, was fun, scary and consistent.
I don't think that Night of the Demons needed a re-make, however I think I was a little more than welcoming to the idea and pretty much ended up with a sloppy movie.Maddi is preparing to go to a party held by Angela.
Even Eddie Furlong made a decent comeback with this movie, though he does look like he's had a little bit too much fun in his days.
There are also some decent scares, though I didn't feel the same suspense as I did with the original, this had some good jumps, especially when the demons try breaking into the one room they are not allowed in.
Night of the Demons is not as much scary as gory and on occasion outright gross (might want to not be eating during the bathroom scene, which goes one step further then the 1988 version).If you're looking for a scare, Oscar-worthy acting, or a plot that makes sense, look elsewhere, if you're looking for cheesy indulgence and a throw back to 80's B horror flicks with gratuitous violence, sex, and more violence , this movie is a dead on(no pun intended)..
Remake of a "classic 1988" film concerns a big Halloween party is held at an old haunted mansion and well everyone eventually turns into demons.Good looking and well acted low budget horror film isn't a bad time waster......but it could have been so much more.