Night of the Demons (1988)
My friend Liona has been watching her way through a horror playlist on Youtube. She recommended this one to me as a gem, and she's darn right it is. A group of teenagers of varying levels of likability and intelligence decide to hold a Halloween party at an abandoned, presumably haunted funeral home. As you do. Then they decide to hold a seance, which awakens the local demon, because it'd be pretty boring otherwise.
Pretty standard killing-off of various characters. If you're into sex, you don't make it out of the movie alive. But, get this:
The black guy is the Final Boy.
Seriously, when we got down to the last two people alive, I was all but gnawing on my hand to see if he'd actually make it out alive. And he did! :D
The Final Girl was pretty cool. I am always fond of people who can do makeshift flame-throwers. She also tended to panic a bit less than the black guy, but eh. You take what you can get.
The opening and closing book-ends of the movie were really kind of freaking weird. Also, high amounts of gratuitous nudity in the film. Though I was pleased that the reaction of one of the guys to a demon-possessed girl doing seductive dancing was "this is getting too damn weird, I'ma leave". Especially since he's made it pretty clear he is into sexy funtimes earlier in the movie.
Complete movie available on Youtube.
Pretty standard killing-off of various characters. If you're into sex, you don't make it out of the movie alive. But, get this:
The black guy is the Final Boy.
Seriously, when we got down to the last two people alive, I was all but gnawing on my hand to see if he'd actually make it out alive. And he did! :D
The Final Girl was pretty cool. I am always fond of people who can do makeshift flame-throwers. She also tended to panic a bit less than the black guy, but eh. You take what you can get.
The opening and closing book-ends of the movie were really kind of freaking weird. Also, high amounts of gratuitous nudity in the film. Though I was pleased that the reaction of one of the guys to a demon-possessed girl doing seductive dancing was "this is getting too damn weird, I'ma leave". Especially since he's made it pretty clear he is into sexy funtimes earlier in the movie.
Complete movie available on Youtube.