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Taking place primarily in a Berlin cinema, Demons finds the packed audience at a preview screening of a new horror film suddenly fending for their lives when a mysterious infection from within the movie starts turning audience members into demons. Chaos reigns once the moviegoers must fight to survive this supernatural attack.

The film is a self-reflexive departure from the trappings of giallo cinema in favour of a more direct and gory style of horror – owing more to Night of the Living Dead than Night of the Scorpion. Its premise acts as a sly dig at the contemporaneous societal concern over the perceived negative influence horror films had on the morality of their audiences. The filmmakers responded to this disquiet with a meta and gleeful celebration of screen carnage. Between its thrashing soundtrack (featuring Billy Idol, Rick Springfield and Claudio Simonetti, among others) and its penchant for bloodshed, Demons is one of the most entertaining horror movies on the 1980s.

R18+