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Tag: Dario Argento

  • Demons

    Demons
    Tagline: They will make cemeteries their cathedrals and the cities will be your tombs.
    Released: 1985
    Starring Urbando Barberini, Natasha Hovey, Karl Zinny, and Fiore Argento
    Directed by Lamberto Bava
    Written by Dario Argento, Lamberto Bava, Franco Ferrini, and Dardano Sacchetti

    Format: DVD
    Distributed by Anchor Bay
    DVD Release Date: September 25, 2007

    Features:
    Anamorphic Widescreen Presentation
    Dolby Surround 5.1, Dolby Surround 2.0
    Audio Commentary with Director Lamberto Bava, Mechanical and Transformation artist Sergio Stivaletti, and journalist Loris Curci
    Behind the Scenes Footage
    Trailers

    Premise: They will make cemeteries their cathedrals and the cities will be your tombs! In 1985, Italian horror masters Dario Argento and Lamberto Bava unleashed this landmark splatter shocker about a group of strangers invited to a sneak preview at a mysterious movie theater, only to be trapped inside and transformed one-by-one into carnage-crazed monsters. It’s a one-of-a-kind combination of creepy terror and relentless gore-orgy, featuring a pounding soundtrack of ‘80s metal, a throbbing score by Claudio Simonetti (SUSPIRIA), and gut-churning special effects by Sergio Stivaletti (CEMETARY MAN, PHENOMENA). This is DEMONS as you’ve never seen it before, with every blood-drenched frame now fully remastered for the ultimate in ooze-spewing, flesh-flaying, spine-ripping madness!

    Plot Breakdown: When Cheryl and her friend Kathy arrive in a subway station, they come across a mysterious man in a metal mask handing out flyers advertising the opening of a new theater. The two friends decide to visit the theater, where they sit down to a horror film along with a small group of other moviegoers. Meanwhile, a prostitute who cut herself on a metal mask hanging in the lobby goes to the bathroom to inspect her wound. Her cut festers and mutates, turning her into a ravenous demon that is able to transform others into demons with just a scratch. The demon plague spreads rapidly, forcing the desperate moviegoers to fight for their lives against a legion of hell-spawned beasts. With the help of two young men, George and Ken, Cheryl and Kathy must find a way to escape the madness before they too become hideous demons.
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  • Demons 2

    Demons 2
    Tagline: A film by Lamberto Bava
    Released: 1986
    Starring David Knight, Nancy Brilli, Coralina Cataldi Tassoni, and Bobby Rhodes
    Directed by Lamberto Bava
    Written by Dario Argento, Lamberto Bava

    Format: DVD
    Distributed by Anchor Bay
    DVD Release Date: September 25, 2007

    Features:
    Anamorphic Widescreen Presentation
    Dolby Surround 5.1, Dolby Surround 2.0
    Audio Commentary with Director Lamberto Bava, Mechanical and Transformation artist Sergio Stivaletti, and journalist Loris Curci
    Trailers

    Premise: One year after Demons tore its way through the world’s gore-loving hearts, Italian horror maestros Dario Argento and Lambero Bava returned once again, unleashing a flood of demonic carnage upon the screen. This time, the residents of a luxury high-rise apartment building are transformed into monsters for a gut-spattered siege, complete with acid blood, cannibal kids, zombie dogs, and a birthday party gone horribly wrong. Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni (Argento’s Opera), Bobby Rhodes (Demons) and Asia Argento (in her first film role) star in this insane shock from “The Golden Age of ‘80s Italian Splatter,” now fully remastered.

    Plot Breakdown (spoilers): On the night of her birthday party, Sally is watching a horror film on TV about a group of explorers going into the walled-off forbidden zone, where the demons invaded in the first film. The explorers’ curiosity resurrects one of the demons, who then comes out of Sally’s TV to spread its own brand of demonic misery in her high-rise apartment building. Now, the residents in the building must fight for their survival against a swelling wave of blood-thirsty demons.
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