Demoni



""They will make cemeteries their cathedrals, and the cities will be your tombs.""

- Tagline

Kathy and Cheryl have received free tickets to a new horror movie. Once inside, though, what happens on the screen starts to happen in the theater, after a fellow theater-goer cuts her face on a ceremonial mask on display in the lobby, and before they know it, the cinema is over-run with man-eating demons. Produced by Dario Argento, and directed by Lamberto Bava, son of Mario.

The sequel, released in 1986, takes place a few years after the events of the first film. An apartment complex is taken over by demons after a girl is attacked by one that emerges from a documentary about said demons. The film then follows some of the tenants who attempt to survive.


 * Angry Black Man: One of the patrons in the first film who was actually quite cool and helped take action.
 * The aerobics instructor in the sequel basically takes the exact same role, and is even played by the same actor.
 * Anyone Can Die
 * Apocalyptic Log: The documentary in the sequel shows a group of teenagers accidentally reviving a demon and getting killed on-camera.
 * Apologetic Attacker:
 * Big Bad: Apparently Sally in the sequel.
 * Black Dude Dies First: Played straight with Rosemary in the first film, averted in the sequel with Sally, who is white.
 * Body Horror: The demonic transformations, especially that of the first victim; also, when a transformed girl starts having convulsions, only for a much more demonic-looking, fully-grown monster to erupt from her carcass.
 * In the sequel, we're treated to seeing how the demons deteriorate, which includes bleeding acidic blood and their flesh melting away. Another smaller demon erupts from the chest of.
 * Chekhov's Gun: The mask, supposedly found in the tomb of Nostradamus with a prophecy about "the coming of demons" after being unearthed. Needless to say it doesn't take long for it to fire, though.
 * Also the
 * Chest Burster
 * Demonic Possession
 * Despair Event Horizon: Some characters go through this when they found a possible Hope Spot in escaping the theater but it's another dead end.
 * Dumb Muscle: Some of the clients of the gym in the second film play this straight.
 * Eye Scream: happens (ironically) to a blind man when the young woman serving as his guide is turned, and shoves her thumbs in his eyesockets.
 * The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: At the beginning of the second movie, a demon from a movie about a demon contagion becomes aware that it's being watched, and breaks out to start a new outbreak. By the way, you're also watching a movie about a demon contagion...
 * Gorn
 * Hope Spot: Several in the first film, the group finding a possible way out only for it to be a dead end. And
 * I'm a Humanitarian/To Serve Man: They may or may not be considered "human" once they turn.
 * Infant Immortality: Averted hard in the second film.
 * Kill'Em All:
 * Muscles Are Meaningless: In the second film.
 * Our Zombies Are Different: They're actually under Demonic Possession, and damn fast.
 * Red Herring:
 * Rule of Scary: Both films take this trope to a total Up to Eleven.
 * Tainted Veins
 * The Virus: A single scratch of their claws, teeth or horns, or a single drop of the demons' copious bodily fluids, and you're done for.
 * Younger Than They Look: The female lead of the sequel, Hannah, is 15. Also, she's the producer's daughter(not that one).
 * Zombie Apocalypse