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Night of the Demons (remake) (V)
“Night of the Demons is a loud, brash, sexy and gory movie that recalls the best of 80s horror and kudos to Gierasch for including a cameo from the original film’s star Linnea Quigley!”
Director Adam Gierasch (Autopsy) returns with his sophomore effort Night of the Demons, based on the classic 1988 Kevin Tenney flick of the same name, which itself spawned two sequels. The new film follows the same structure as the original: a group of party-going friends face a night in hell on earth as they try to defend themselves against an onslaught of demons intent on possessing their bodies and souls – however this time the ‘demon party’ is at Broussard Mansion not Hull [Hell] House. When cops bust a party thrown by Angela (Elizabeth) at Broussard Mansion, she and a handful of party goers – Maddie (Keena), Suzanne (Luther), Lily (Baird), Jason (Beach), Dex (Copon), along with small-time drug dealer Colin (Furlong) – hold out in the basement, where they find a hidden room containing six skeletal corpses. When Angela attempts to remove a gold tooth from one of bodies she gets bitten and is transformed into a demon. Then all hell literally breaks loose…
Gierasch announced prior to the screening of Night of the Demons at FrightFest that for this film he wanted to make a punk rock horror flick and the type of movie he wanted to see when he was 15, featuring copious amounts of blood, gore and nudity and he succeeds, even if it is at the expense of character development. But when you have such eye-candy as Monica Keena, Diora Baird and Bobbi Sue Luther (and her ample charms) character development is not something you need to worry about. It’s not like the cast and crew don’t know what they’re working with – yes the characters are one-dimensional but everyone manages to have fun with it, even Edward Furlong, who seems to be having so much fun that he brings more to his role in Demons than he has done in his previous movies.
Night of the Demons is a throwback to simpler times when boobs and blood were the norm, and special effects guys ruled the genre. As such, the film doesn’t scrimp on the physical FX – it features a plenty of gore and grue, including a gruesome face and boob ripping, demonic transformations (including one that takes place via some kinky demon anal sex) and a rehash of the original film’s lipstick in boob scene taken to an even more extreme and twisted level! This film isn’t your typical by-the-numbers rehash, Adam Gierasch throws in some nice directorial touches including a sepia-toned silent movie style opening flashback and a fast-paced in your face punk rock attitude that helps the film rise above many of today’s remakes.
Night of the Demons is a loud, brash, sexy and gory movie that recalls the best of 80s horror and kudos to Gierasch for including a cameo from the original film’s star Linnea Quigley!
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’28 Years Later’ – Ralph Fiennes, Jodie Comer, and Aaron Taylor-Johnson Join Long Awaited Sequel
Danny Boyle and Alex Garland (Annihilation, Men), the director and writer behind 2002’s hit horror film 28 Days Later, are reteaming for the long-awaited sequel, 28 Years Later. THR reports that the sequel has cast Jodie Comer (Alone in the Dark, “Killing Eve”), Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Kraven the Hunter), and Ralph Fiennes (The Menu).
The plan is for Garland to write 28 Years Later and Boyle to direct, with Garland also planning on writing at least one more sequel to the franchise – director Nia DaCosta is currently in talks to helm the second installment.
No word on plot details as of this time, or who Comer, Taylor-Johnson, and Fiennes may play.
28 Days Later received a follow up in 2007 with 28 Weeks Later, which was executive produced by Boyle and Garland but directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo. Now, the pair hope to launch a new trilogy with 28 Years Later. The plan is for Garland to write all three entries, with Boyle helming the first installment.
Boyle and Garland will also produce alongside original producer Andrew Macdonald and Peter Rice, the former head of Fox Searchlight Pictures, the division of one-time studio Twentieth Century Fox that originally backed the British-made movie and its sequel.
The original film starred Cillian Murphy “as a man who wakes up from a coma after a bicycle accident to find England now a desolate, post-apocalyptic collapse, thanks to a virus that turned its victims into raging killers. The man then navigates the landscape, meeting a survivor played by Naomie Harris and a maniacal army major, played by Christopher Eccleston.”
Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer) is on board as executive producer, though the actor isn’t set to appear in the film…yet.
Talks of a third installment in the franchise have been coming and going for the last several years now – at one point, it was going to be titled 28 Months Later – but it looks like this one is finally getting off the ground here in 2024 thanks to this casting news. Stay tuned for more updates soon!
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