Overview: They will make cemeteries their cathedrals and the cities will be your tombs. A masked man offers tickets to a horror movie sneak preview at the mysterious Metropol cinema. When a patron is scratched by a prop displayed in the theatre lobby, she transforms into a flesh-ripping demon!

One by one, the audience members mutate into horrible creatures hell-bent on destroying the world! Can anyone escape this gory orgy of terror?

Regarded by horror fans the world over as one of the greatest Italian splatter films ever made, Lamberto Bava’s Demons is not only major cinematic nightmare fuel, but also a hugely entertaining gore-fest of the highest order.

Produced by Dario Argento (Suspiria, Tenebrae, Phenomena), Demons features an amazing soundtrack of 80’s rock/heavy metal music by Billy Idol, Scorpions, Mötley Crüe, Accept, Saxon and MORE!

4K UHD Blu-ray Verdict: They will make cemeteries their cathedrals and the cities will be your tombs. With that aforementioned line, you know that what you’re about to watch better be the most mind-blowing horror film possible! Good news - Demons is all of that and then some, the kind of movie that has everything that I watch movies for.

I can’t be silent or still while it runs, growing more excited by every moment. It is the perfect synthesis of 1980’s gore and heavy metal, presented with no characterization or character growth whatsoever. It’s always the most awesome movie you will ever watch.

This is an all-star film, if you consider Italian 80’s horror creators to be all-stars. There’s Lamberto Bava directing and doing special effects, Dario Argento producing, a script written by Bava, Argento, Franco Ferrini (Once Upon a Time in America, Phenomena) and Dardano Sacchetti (every single Italian horror film that was ever awesome; a short list includes A Bay of Blood, Shock, The Beyond, 1990: The Bronx Warriors, Blastfighter, Hands of Steel and so many more), and assistant director and acting from Michele Soavi.

The movie starts on the Berlin subway, where Cheryl is pursued by a silver masked man (Soavi) who hands her tickets to see a movie at the Metropol. She brings along her friend Kathy (Paola Cozzo from A Cat in the Brain and Demonia) and they soon meet two boys, George (Urbano Barberini, Gor, Opera) and Ken.

The masked man has brought all manner of folks to the theater: a blind man and his daughter and some interesting couples, including a boyfriend and girlfriend, an older married one and Tony the pimp and his girls, one of whom is Shocking Dark’s Geretta Giancarlo. As they wait for the movie to begin, a steel mask in the lobby scratches her.

The movie that unspools - a slasher about teenagers who disturb the final resting place of Nostradamus - also has that very same steel mask. When it touches anyone in the movie, they turn murderous. At the very same time, one of the prostitutes scratches herself in the bathroom and her face erupts into pus and reveals a demon. From here on out, the movie becomes one long action sequence, as the other prostitute transforms into a demon in front of the entire audience.

Meanwhile, four punks do cocaine in a Coke can and break in, releasing a demon into the city as the rest of the movie audience attempt to escape and are killed one by one. Only George and Cheryl survive, as our hero uses a sword and motorcycle to attack the demons before a helicopter crashes through the roof. But then the masked man attacks them!

I’m not going to ruin the rest of the movie, only to say that even the credits offer no safety in the world of Demons! And oh yeah - Giovanni Frezza (Bob from House by the Cemetery) shows up!

Also look for Argento’s daughter, Fiore as Angela and Ingrid the usherette is played by Nicoletta Elmi, who was the baron’s daughter in Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein, as well as appearing in Baron Blood, A Bay of Blood and Who Saw Her Die?

In conclusion, Demons is ridiculous (but for all the right reasons!) Pure goop and gore mixed with power chords, samurai swords, punk rockers and even a Billy Idol song which had to blow the budget. It also looks gorgeous - filled with practical effects, gorgeous film stock and amazing colors, no doubt the influence of Bava’s father. The scene where the yellow-eyed demons emerge from the blue blackness is everything horror movies should be. [B.A.M.]

SPECIAL FEATURES:
Newly remastered in 4K from the original camera negative in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible)
Two versions of the film: the full-length original cut in English and Italian, and the shorter U.S. version featuring alternate dubbing and sound effects
Uncompressed DTS-HD MA English & Italian 5.1/2.0 audio mixes on the original cut derived from the archival audio masters
Uncompressed DTS-HD MA English 2.0 U.S. theatrical mono audio
New audio commentary by critics Kat Ellinger and Heather Drain, co-hosts of the Hell’s Belles podcast
Audio commentary with director Lamberto Bava, SPFX artist Sergio Stivaletti, composer Claudio Simonetti and actress Geretta Geretta
Produced by Dario Argento: a new visual essay by author and critic Michael Mackenzie exploring the legendary filmmaker’s career as a producer
Dario’s Demon Days: interview with writer/producer Dario Argento
Defining an Era in Music: interview with Claudio Simonetti
Splatter Spaghetti Style: interview with long-time Argento collaborator Luigi Cozzi
Carnage at the Cinema: Lamberto Bava and His Splatter Masterpiece
Dario and the Demons: Producing Monster Mayhem
Monstrous Memories: Luigi Cozzi on the making of Demons
Profondo Jones: The Critical Perspective
Splatter Stunt Rock: interview with Ottaviano Dell’Acqua
Stivaletti Q&A at the 2019 UK ‘Festival of Fantastic Films’
Original Italian and English international theatrical trailers
U.S. theatrical trailer
Newly translated optional English SDH subtitles for the English version
Newly translated English subtitles for the Italian version

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