Thursday, April 11, 2013

Night of the Demons 1988

Night of the Demons, a 1988 horror film also known as Halloween Party was written and produced by Joe Augustyn and directed by Kevin S. Tenny. This film tells the story of ten high school senior students who throw a Halloween party in an isolated mortuary. Their party turns to hell after preforming a seance at a party game. They unleash the evil spirits that haunt the land. 

Stooge, Helen, and Rodger are driving to a party thrown by the high school out cast Angela Franklin and her best friend Suzanne at Hull House. The local mortuary is abandoned. The car passes and old man who is carry apples and razor blades. Judy returns home and finds out that her boyfriend Jay wants to attend Angela's party. She doesn't want to go and is unsure about it, but attends anyways. Jay, Max, and Frannie pick her up. Judy and her friends arrive at Hull House, where Max and one of the other party goers tell her about the legend of Hull House. The Hull House is rumored to be cursed, where the evil spirits are contained by an underground stream that surrounds the entire building. During the set up of the party, Judy attempts to light candles with an empty lighter.

The party stops when the battery in the radio dies. Angela decides to keep the party going by performing a seance to keep the party going. During the seance Helen looks at her reflection in the glass mirror they found in one of the empty rooms, and see's the demon face to face, then see's how she will; die. She screams loud enough to wake the dead, then the mirror proceeds to fall and shatter on the old wood floor. Helen states that she wants to leave and Rodger feels the same. As they're about to leave, Helen, Rodger, and the rest all smell different scents in the room. One scent that smells horrid, and the other smells like roses. Helen and Rodger then are given Angel's car keys by the first possessed Suzanne. Jay, Judy, Max, and Frannie leave to explore the rest of Hull House, and the now-possessed Suzanne follows with one of the male party goers. 

As time goes on, Angela, and slowly the rest of the group, other than Judy and Rodger become possessed and their party turns to a night of hell in Hull House. According to history as time goes on, Angela is the only body not found at the scene and apparently the devils favorite. 

Judy and Rodger fight for their lives and are able to cross the underground stream and the high brick wall that keeps them from leaving. On their journey home from hell, they pass the old man's house who in the beginning had apples and razor blades that he was going to give to the children who were trick or treating. He goes outside to retrieve the morning news paper. After sitting down waiting for his morning coffee and apple pie, his wife explains that he had to many left over apples and turned them into a pie. Not knowing this before he took a bite, bites into not only apples but razor blades inside the apples. His wife knew what he was up to, and killed him before he killed the children of the neighborhood. Then kisses his dead corpse on the head saying "Happy Halloween Dear." The movie ends and then to the credits. 

This was my first horror film I've ever seen as a child. Also my first childhood memory. This has been my favorite classic ever since, and one of the only horror movies left with a good concept and the best gore ever. I sometimes watch this movie over and over again. It's to hard not to. Please check out this horror flick if you never heard of it before. It's a classic, but will blow you away.

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