Night Of The Demons 2 was the belated follow up to you
guessed it, Night Of The Demons. The key difference is that this time the on
goings are directed by Brian Trenchard Smith. Brian Trentchard Smith has of
course given the world much by proving that the mentally insane can direct films too.
If you’re not familiar with Brian Trenchard Smith you really
should be. He’s the man responsible for roughly half of the great clips in Not
Quite Hollywood. Including Stunt Rock the only stunt and wizard theme Rock Opera
yet made, Dead End Drive In and the immortal BMX Bandits.
The nineties proved a much leaner time for Smith, but he
still managed to deliver this bizarre little number, which might have been made
in the nineties but has eighties stink floating off of it like a fine layer of
musk. Never have I seen a movie that rushed to fulfill the requirements of gore
and T&A as quickly and thoroughly as it could.
Six years after Night Of The Demons Hull House and the stuff
that has happened there have become the stuff of urban legend. Angela is still
hanging around snacking on any Jehovah’s Witnesses unlucky enough to cross her
threshold but is understandably getting a little bored.
Angela’s mousy little sister, named er- mouse, because
that’s the type of movie this is, is now living at a Catholic boarding school
after the Angela related suicide of her parents. This being a horror film, all
the girls hate her and Mouse soon finds herself on the receiving end of the
most intricately hateful and unmotivated prank this side of Trick R’ Treat.
These kind of pranks always crack me up, kids are hateful and terrible to each
other but they’re hateful to each other in terrible little mundane ways. If
your prank involves blue prints and a time table it is most likely not going to
ring true.
Unfortunately for these students their lucky stars are in
retrograde. Some of them end up possessed and make it back to the Catholic
School to cause some havoc. Faster than you can say “I kick ass for the lord.”
The clergy and students retaliate, leading to one final battle at Hull House,
where shit as they say, gets real.
Like I said, Night Of The Demons 2 may have been made in the
nineties, but it has a definite 80’s vibe to it. There’s plenty of practical
gore, wild monster design, thin characters and other assorted genre goodies,
all delivered with that trademark unhinged BTS touch. Don’t let me oversell,
this isn’t some kind of lost classic or anything, but for a belated sequel to
something that wasn’t all that good in the first place Night Of The Demons 2 is
a surprising amount of fun. The sort of movie you watch fourth in a horror movie
marathon and perk up during because you’re not sure if what you’re seeing is
real or the result of the dreaded Pumpkin Beer Delirium.
3 comments:
Angela is noticeably less charming by the third film.
Still, very watchable.
This one is fun your right, my favorite thing about it is that snake monster in the ending..pretty cool for a low budget effort.
"The sort of movie you watch fourth in a horror movie marathon and perk up during because you’re not sure if what you’re seeing is real or the result of the dreaded Pumpkin Beer Delirium."
Given your known love for pumpkin beer, I can only assume you're speaking from experience.
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