"Night
of the Demons" is one of my fav HORROR PARTY MIXES and even Part 2
managed to deliver some goodies that were worth the green. After years of
avoiding Part 3 like a bad case of chlamydia, gonorrhea, genital warts and
herpes...I decided to take a chance, put a rubber on and give it a doggy
bang. Did I live to regret it? YES! This Mademoiselle was just a bad lay!
On
the upside, the best thing about this sequel is its
animated opening credits with flying demons and shite going coo-coo all
over the screen. Groovy stuff! The whole movie should’ve been about that
jive. Words to the wise: do your thang , watch the opening credits and
take a magic carpet ride to hell. The rest of the movie is a whole other
cock-fight and I don’t mean the animal. To be fair, I did kind of enjoy
the set-up with the entertaining shootout. It was different than what
we’d seen in the first two films and I actually didn’t see it coming.
But once the teen schmucks got to the big bad house, it wasn’t too long
until the jig was proven to be up.
Now,
what I always appreciated about the first Night of the Demons was its
morbid creativity, its flashy/energetic directing and its “out there” special effects. Sure, the sequel had some of
those potent spices too but I’ll stick with Part 1 in terms of
comparison. This “routine” sequel is sleeping on the job and it just
won't wake up! You can kick it, slap it, fuck its mouth blue; it just
won’t come to life! It be deader than Cobain. The effects are sooooo of
the “dime store” variety and if you think a Halloween mask is scary; HAVE
FUN BUDDY! And what about the creativity, you may ask? Well, if you find an
evil Snake Sock Puppet novel, you’ll blow your load here like Ron Jeremy
on Viagra. As for me, I need more than footwear with a mouth to get my
horror juices flowing.
Directing-wise, Kaufman is spacing at the wheel and offers one redundant 80 minutes.
Dude, there’s more to directing than 3 fucking types of shots! Take a
chance! Storyboard your film! At least think about SOME pre-production! Go
nuts! This movie looks like it was shot in one hour and even the
“requisite” Raimi-like demon POV shot that we also find in the two previous films felt
fairly impotent here! And then you have the “coup the grace” which are
the unbearable characters and the "tickle your balls with a chainsaw"
acting. Holy shite, Batgirl...and I thought the acting in the first two films
was amateurish. You haven’t seen anything yet! Now I’m not sure if it
was the often-lousy dialogue or the actors’ pre-school delivery but
I’ll take a chance and lean towards BOTH. I dare you to find TWO
characters you genuinely appreciate in here, I double dare you! I actually
managed to find one, Lois (Slone) the bitchy blonde tramp did manage to rock my world with her assets (yes, I
know...it figures). That soft
drink with tits was my flavor and definitely Arrow approved!
So
what’s left, Taco? Does this movie have anything to put out to make it
worth a gander? Well, actually its main strength is SEX. I think the folks
behind this baby knew they had a flying used diaper on their hands so they
filled it with unapologetic smut. I’m talking female flesh peddling
galore, sexual intercourse up the blow dryer, Angela sucking off a gun
(cool scene actually, solid technique there girl…congrats), some dude
getting head, a lesbian kiss and even a snake sock puppet managing to
lightly eat a girl out. I
know this might sound like "fun times" in a cereal box but WITHOUT the
horror all that sex wasn’t worth more than a 5-minute whack and a
well-earned power nap.
In conclusion, this corpse
was too routine, uninspired, badly shot and cheap to deliver as a
satisfying Night of the Demons sequel. Add to that a script that never
failed to insult me with its stupidity (that whole “magic” spurting
cop thing nearly lead me to shoot my toes off, take those tricks and
shove them!), a few plot holes, some Mickey Mouse CGI, a crappy finale,
dumb ass and I mean DUMB ASS character moves (why try to hot wire a car to
escape when all you can do is walk 3 steps to get out of dodge? Duh!) and
you get one for the unmarked graves. I knew this flick had killed the
series when it made the requisite Angela “erotic” dancing scene
BORING! This party is dead yo! Let’s get out of here! I hear SkyBar is
jumping tonight! Let’s hit
it!