Redundant and unnecessary.

Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

best movie i've ever seen.

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

The names Argento and Bava alone are enough to cause the average gore-hound to salivate, and fans of over-the-top splattery were treated to an exercise in excess with the Argento-produced, Bava- directed Demons in 1985. While I still felt the film sucked despite the talent behind the camera (although this is Lamberto Bava, not his legendary father Mario), there was still enough bone-gnawing and blood- spraying to enjoy amidst the terrible 80's fashions and soap opera-level dialogue. For the follow-up, the horror maestros inexplicably took out the bite and accentuated the goofiness, and the result is a clumsy, camp and somewhat annoying mess of atrocious acting and even worse film-making.The film begins with what looks to be a documentary based on the events of the first movie, with a bunch of disposable teens trespassing into an quarantined city deserted following the demon outbreak. 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. Thankfully, a demon quickly bursts through the screen to turn her into a poster-girl for tooth decay and drip bile through the various floors, turning many of its residents into blue-skinned monsters. Amongst the many archetypes fighting for survival, douchebag George (David Edwin Knight) must get back to his apartment to rescue his pregnant wife and badass gym instructor Hank (Bobby Rhodes) leads his group of oiled-up bodybuilders into battle.It all sounds like a lot of fun, and it really should be. An apartment building is the perfect setting to induce feelings of claustrophobia, with a vast labyrinth of corridors and narrow vents for our heroes to fight their way out of. Instead, Bava ignores the need for any resemblance of atmosphere or tension in favour of a never-ending stream of badly executed set-pieces, where grisly attacks tend to take place away from view. 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. Only the antics of Hank (a winning combination of Fred Williamson and Mr. Motivator) and a terrific British new wave soundtrack gloss over the abominable acting and frankly unprofessional direction.

Demons take over an apartment block.Spreading like zombies (in fact, they might as well be zombies), these creatures inhabit an Italian horror film which is badly dubbed, badly voice cast (the chief black bloke from the gym gets an especially duff vocal performance), poorly scripted, badly acted, and populated by monsters in poor makeup with a particularly preposterous mini-monster - this is so bad as to be hilarious.I give it a couple of marks for having some visual style and some decently realised action with some good stunt work. Otherwise, this is pretty dreadful stuff.

About as gory as the original, and just as senseless, too, but this film lacks the original's ideal setting in an ornate, deco cinema, replacing it with an odd looking apartment building. A girl in the building is watching a movie on television about demons, which somehow unleashes the demons again, it possesses her, and she goes around clawing and devouring everyone in sight. Killings are juxtaposed with an accordion player in a polka band, and a birthday cake, although not the same cake as we are puzzlingly shown in the opening scene, in two of the film's most (unintentionally?) odd moments. Overall this is a strange, gory, cheesy hybrid of the book Nothing Lasts Forever (aka Die Hard) and a replay of the original Demons, with a bit the Terminator and Dawn of the Dead thrown in. A distracting, out-of-place soundtrack also features prominently in the proceedings. As much as I love The Cult, I can't figure why their song Rain is played during the closing credits and during a party scene. It's good to see Tony the pimp has recovered though, from being so violently attacked during the previous film.

Demons 2 (1986)** (out of 4) More demons are unleashed and this time it's the tenants of an apartment building who find themselves being clawed apart in Lamberto Bava's follow-up to his 1985 gore classic.DEMONS 2 has a lot of the crew of the previous film but sadly it just doesn't work as well. I've always thought that DEMONS was one of the best Italian gore movies ever made as the special effects were terrific and there was just so much goo and gore that you couldn't help but love it. This film here offers up perhaps more gore but it really doesn't help things because in the end this just feels like a lazy attempt to make money.Obviously the filmmakers knew the first film worked well so they just tried to capture it's success. The two plots are pretty much the same with this one here really not trying to do anything new or original. The biggest problem is that all the characters here are pretty poorly written and you don't care what happens to any of them. The performances are what you'd expect but it was nice seeing a young Asia Argento.As far as the gore goes, it's the film's only saving grace. There are some great gore shots and the transformation scenes are also pretty good. Trying to top the original we're given a child demon as well as a pretty effective sequence where a dog turns into one. Sadly, these scenes aren't enough to completely save DEMONS 2 but gore hounds will still want to check it out.