Night of the Demon
Night of the Demon
R | 04 February 1980 (USA)
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An anthropology professor and his students attempt to track down a Bigfoot responsible for a rash of violent murders, only to uncover something even more sinister.

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ada

the leading man is my tpye

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Ameriatch

One of the best films i have seen

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SpunkySelfTwitter

It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

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ChicDragon

It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

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Peppered_Productions

This movie is all kinds of bad. Why a 4/10? Because it's totally salvageable as a riff-fest.A professor takes his students to a remote area of woods to validate some Bigfoot claims. They manage to find him and tick him off. Prof survives to tell the tale.Along the film's twisted path, we encounter generic victims. Among the first is a pair of hot & heavy lovers. As he's killed, she's emoting. And over-emoting. And even goes beyond 'scenery chewing' status.There are flashbacks involving stories of other victims - that are randomly thrown into the main story's progress.There's "Crazy Wanda" a survivor who they try to hypnotize into telling her tale - AFTER rescuing her from being ritualistically murdered by some townsfolk. Yes, you read that right.The lighting is, at times, horrible. The plot is drawn out to the point I kept losing interest & pausing the movie. However, for the time, the kills are original (and graphic), and the sound is decent.The randomness of the plot & some sub-par acting allows for fun times with friends. I've seen plenty of horror films that don't even have that entertainment value. However, as a study in the genre, this one misses more than it hits.

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gwnightscream

This 1980 horror film stars Michael Cutt, Melanie Graham and Shane Dixon. Cutt plays college professor, Bill Nugent who has just survived a terrible ordeal. He tells his story to doctors about a Bigfoot (Dixon) that attacked him and his students in the wilderness. He also reveals there was a woman, Wanda McGinty (Graham) who was raped by the monster and had it's baby that her father killed after. This is like a bad student film about Bigfoot that I only give points for it's nice surroundings and bloody effects. The monster isn't scary, there's lousy acting and the film should've had a different title. I only recommend this if you're into cheesy horror or creature features.

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warsystem04

I am having trouble trying to decide where even to begin with a review of this movie, but I will say the title of this review is meant in the best possible way. "Night Of The Demon" is an absolute mess of a film in nearly every aspect, but it still works so well I can't bring myself to rate it any lower, let alone not want to rewatch it immediately already.Trying to summarize it neatly is also nearly impossible, because for such a low budget movie the creators tried to stuff as much content as possible into it, creating a plot that is far too complex for what they realized it as. A teacher takes his anthropology class on a trip into the local forest where people have been disappearing and found dead. He believes it is the work of a bigfoot. The entire thing is one long flashback from the professor's point of view, except for the first few and last few minutes in the present. To make things even more convoluted, multiple death scenes are a flashback within that flashback, as is another crucial part of the movie.While I may have made this film sound like a disaster above, all of that just adds to it's charm. This film is probably one of the most violent and gory I have ever seen, and the deaths are truly noteworthy and over the top. The bigfoot rips off limbs (including a penis), stabs victims, makes victims stab each other, decapitates, and most notably swings a guy in a sleeping bag multiple times over his head before throwing him and impaling him on a tree branch. The movie also contains what has to be the only bigfoot on human rape scene in celluloid history, which is actually very unsettling, especially the outcome. The whole thing is very grim and includes infanticide, parricide and a final few minutes which is an absolutely brutal bloodbath.I don't want to spoil all of the little treats this gem has to offer in my review, and believe me, I couldn't list them all if I tried. "Night Of The Demon" is VERY ahead of it's time for 1980 in my opinion, and is one flick that absolutely has to be seen to be believed. The gore is pretty believable, the acting abysmal (which makes it almost feel like a weird documentary), and the lowbrow sleaze found within almost surreal in it's execution. Do yourself a favor and see this at all costs.

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Michael_Elliott

Night of the Demon (1980)** 1/2 (out of 4) I'm not going to lie and try to pass this thing off as some sort of masterpiece but it's certainly one of the all-time campy horror movies. Professor Dixon (Michael Cutt), an expert at all things Bigfoot, takes five students to the woods to investigate some murders and soon enough they run into a bizarre redneck woman and of course Bigfoot eventually shows up. If you're looking for a well-made, brilliantly acted, heartfelt film that makes you think when it's over then NIGHT OF THE DEMON certainly isn't for you. If you're just looking for some gory, campy fun then this movie has pretty much everything you'd want plus much more. I'm a sucker for Bigfoot movies and this here is certainly one of the most memorable simply because of how silly it is and because of the fact that it has to be the goriest one ever made. I was really shocked at how much violence and gore was in this thing. We've got people being stabbed, hit with an axe, burned, raped, slammed, clawed and much worse and all of it comes with plenty of red stuff. There are some outrageous death scenes and while all of them are done with low-budget effects I still thought they worked quite well. And just wait until you see what happens to the motorcycle guy who pulls off to use the bathroom. The performances range from fair to poor and there's no question that there are a lot of quality issues. Just check out the error of the "witness" telling the story but when you see what happens to him at the end it doesn't match up with his injuries when he's telling the story. The screenplay really goes off the deep end once we start to get involved with the redneck girl but you have to give the director credit by throwing whatever into the mix and just seeing what happened. NIGHT OF THE DEMON is pure trash but it's oh so much fun.

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