Demoni
| Dèmoni (Demons) | |
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 British quad Demoni poster | |
| Directed by | Lamberto Bava |
| Produced by | Dario Argento |
| Written by | Story: Dardano Sacchetti Screenplay: Dario Argento Lamberto Bava Franco Ferrini Dardano Sacchetti |
| Starring | Urbano Barberini, Natasha Hovey, Paola Cozzo, Bobby Rhodes, Fiore Argento |
| Music by | Claudio Simonetti, Billy Idol, Mötley Crüe, Accept |
| Release date(s) | 1985 |
| Running time | 88 min. |
| Language | English and Italian (dubbed) |
| Budget | $1,800,000 (reported) |
| Followed by | Demoni 2 (1986) |
| IMDb profile | |
Dèmoni (also known as Demons) is a 1985 Italian horror film directed by Lamberto Bava. Screenplay by Bava, Dario Argento, Franco Ferrini, and Dardano Sacchetti, from a story by Sacchetti. 88 minutes.
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Plot summary
The film begins when two young women receive tickets to a free film screening at The Metropol, a newly opened movie theater. When they arrive they discover that a large crowd has shown up for the screening and they sit down to watch the movie, a violent horror film. Out in the lobby a woman has scraped herself on the face with a bizarre mask, and she notices that the mask is the exact same as a prop used in the film. She goes to the bathroom, and as she looks in the mirror the cut on her face bursts open, spewing out a foul pus. She is soon transformed into a bloodthirsty, fanged demon. Before long the theater patrons are forced to battle for their lives as one by one they are transformed into vicious monsters.
Cast
- Urbano Barberini...George
- Natasha Hovey...Cheryl
- Paola Cozzo...Kathy
- Karl Zinny...Ken
- Fiore Argento...Hannah
- Bobby Rhodes...Tony
- Nicoletta Elmi...Usherette
- Michele Soavi...Man in Mask
Trivia
- In addition to co-writing the script, Dario Argento also produced the film.
- Argento's daughter Fiore plays the character of Hannah.
- Michele Soavi, a devotee of Argento's work and his assistant director on several films, also served as an assistant director on Demoni and has two starring roles, as the man wearing the silver mask and as Jerry, one of the characters in the film playing at the Metropol.
- Nicoletta Elmi, who plays the usherette, appeared in Argento's 1975 classic giallo Deep Red. She also had a small role in the 1971 horror film Bay of Blood, directed by Mario Bava, the father of Demoni director Lamberto Bava.
- Posters for Werner Herzog's Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht and Argento's Four Flies on Grey Velvet can be seen hanging in the Metropol's lobby.
Sequels
- Demoni 2 (1986)
- La Casa dell'orco (1988) (TV) AKA Demons III: The Ogre
- La Chiesa (1989) AKA Demons 3
- Demoni 3 (1991)
- La Setta (1991) AKA Demons 4
- La Maschera del demonio (1989) AKA Demons 5: The Devil's Veil
- Il Gatto nero (1989) AKA Demons 6
Categories
Horror films | Italian films | 1985 films