Week 169 - Night of the Demon

Reviews / Author Comments due: 16/08/2014
Position on TimeOut list: 52
More Info: Wikipedia, IMDB
DVD: Link

TRAILER:

Night of the Demon - Will's review

In a short introduction a paranormal investigator, Dr. Harringtonton, meets with cult leader Dr Karswell, begging the satanist to "call it off", Karswell makes a half-hearted promise to "do what he can", but the scientist is killed by a demon on his way home. 

Cue the bulk of the movie, in which Dr. Holden, an American scientist and friend of the now diseased investigator, travels to England to look into Harrington's death (which Holden believes to be either an accident), and himself take over the work of exposing Karswell as a fraud. 

Night of the Demon - Lisa's Review

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Ok, this one took me several attempts, stops and rewinds.  Maybe I've got terrible concentration today and I'm very aware this is a late one from me, or maybe it was just that mind numbingly dull.  Sadly since anyone I know who has seen this movie seems to have enjoyed it, it seems it's my own personal taste this time.  So why didn't I enjoy it?

Night of the Demon: Will's Review

I hate to rag on micro budget movies, getting a film finished and out there is no mean feat, but for some things there's no excuse; There are plenty of good actors who will work for guild minimum, and a coherent script costs no more to write than, say, Night of the Demon...

You see, the film starts at the end, and is told in flashbeck, a common enough method, only there are several flashbacks along the way - flashbacks within flashbacks, and while many of the scenes do not feature the main character (the one doing the flashing back) the sub-flashbacks almost all have no survivors, and in one case the guy doing the main story wasn't present when the nested (and witness free) flashback was recounted! So he is recounting the recounting  of a tail which no one could have known about and which he didn't even hear!

Night of the Demon - Lisa's Review

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Well we've got a right stinker this week.  I wouldn't say it was the worst one I've watched so far on the list, but it is definately not one I would ever recommend to anyone else for any reason, other than a desire to complete the nasties list challenge.

WEEK 57: Night of the Demon

Alternate Titles : NA

Year: 1980

Reviews / Author Comments due: 30/06/2012

DPP Status: Successfully Prosecuted

BBFC Status: Passed with 1m41s of cuts in 1994
IMDB: LINK

Wikipedia: LINK

DVD: Uncut R1 import

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