Demons 2

1986 ‘Demoni 2... L'incubo ritorna’ Directed by Lamberto Bava

The Nightmare Returns

A group of tenants and visitors are trapped in a 10-story high-rise apartment building infested with demons who proceed to hunt the dwindling humans down.

David Edwin Knight Nancy Brilli Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni Bobby Rhodes Asia Argento Virginia Bryant Anita Bartolucci Antonio Cantafora Luisa Passega Davide Marotta Marco Vivio Michele Mirabella Lorenzo Gioelli Lino Salemme Maria Chiara Sasso Dario Casalini Eliana Miglio Yvonne Fraschetti Bruno Bilotta Lamberto Bava Stefano Molinari Giovanna Pini Pascal Persiano Fabio Poggiali Lorenzo Flaherty Marina Loi

Alternative Titles

Demoni due, Demoni 2, Démons 2, Dance of the demons, Demons 2... Regresa la pesadilla

fantasy horror

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Review by karamashi ★★★½ 5

COME ON DOWN TO BAVA & ARGENTO'S DISCOUNT DEMON SEQUELS! THESE ARE QUALITY SHOT DEMONS! YOU CAN'T EVEN TELL ITS A SEQUEL!
WE HAVE ALL KINDS OF DEMONS! TV DEMONS! BIRTHDAY DEMONS! CHILD DEMONS! DOG DEMONS! BODYBUILDER DEMONS! DEMONS COMING OUT OF OTHER DEMONS! BABY DEMON--OH WAIT, SCRATCH THAT, NO BABY DEMONS! INSTEAD WE'LL THROW IN SUB-PLOTS THAT LEAD TO NOWHERE AND THEMES OF ENCLOSING MODERNIZATION!
WHAT MORE COULD YOU WANT FROM A DEMONS SEQUEL?!
SO COME ON DOWN! WE GUARANTEE A SUB-PREMIUM DEMONS SEQUEL OR WE'LL RIDE OUT THIS FRANCHISE UNTIL YOU FUCKERS HAVE TROUBLE DISTINGUISHING WHICH IS AN ACTUAL SEQUEL OR NOT!
Review by robyn ★★★★★ 3

Soft blue lighting, neon signs, 80s workout gear, wee bastard creatures, great special effects - it's basically my checklist for a SUPER GOOD GREAT FILM.
Review by belial_carboni ★★★★½ 9

FRIDAY NIGHT CONTINUES WITH ONE OF THE BEST FUGGIN SEQUELS IN THE UNIVERSE YOU BETTER BELIEVE IM WATCHING DEMONS 2!
A near perfect sequel that captures a lot of the magical chaos of the first Demons. And this time it takes place in a freakin apartment building! Which happens to be my 2nd favourite setting for a horror film right after a movie theatre. So naturally these films cater to my every desire. Of locations. There's just something extra claustrophobic and isolating about being trapped in a building with a bunch of insane demons on the loose!
Leave it to our Demoni jerks to crash one of the most happening parties ever! I would totally go to that party. Drink…
Review by cherryz ★★★★

September 20, 1975 Asia Argento was born. We will watch a horror movie that she was in.
Partyyyyyyyy!!!!
I'm glad Sally got out of her grump and went birthday bananas!
I'll never be able to blow out candles on a cake again without demon smiling rrrrrrhhhhaaarrrrr!!!!!
The music is on point, the groups of people in the apartment block, leotards, gym bunnies, a dog, and the kid even gets into the party mood. What a great watch.
Review by Rafael Jovine ★★ 9

When one enters a horror film, one shouldn't never going in expecting a great amount of logic. Its known by now (especially on the 80s and 90s) horror movie, characters will be doing some of the lamest and stupidest decisions, even if they have to come up with them. And you know what, I get it and I don't have too much issue with that.
What I do have problem with is the fact that the whole film is built under a level of conveniences that's just plain down offensive. Like, ok, you are in a luxurious building with windows unable to open because the bulletproofed? Like where did I miss the memo we were in Oakland or Detroit? And…
Review by Biscoito18 ★★★ 2

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"Demons 2" takes place in a residential building where a birthday party becomes a rain of acidic blood that crosses the floors, corroding everything in its path, especially the soul of those who come into contact with it. Soon a wide variety of characters are trapped in this hellish tower, in the dark and with dozens of angry demons running down the halls and tearing apart everything and everyone in front of them with their huge claws.
From "Shivers" to "Land of the Dead" I love horror movies set in apartment buildings or skyscrapers, the so-called High Rise horror movies, especially when they know how to use the…
Review by WraithApe ★½

Like a faded Xerox copy of the original movie, set in a nondescript apartment block rather than the distinctive Metropol. Bava and Argento try to bottle and sell lightning twice, but it really doesn't work - the whole point of the first film was the idea of the film coming to life for the audience, not just random fodder in a random location. Broadcast TV in an apartment block just ain't the same.
The acting, which hardly pulled up any trees in the first film, is positively dendritic this time round. David Edwin Knight is a charisma vacuum in the lead role, Bobby Rhodes returns, inexplicably reincarnated as a gym instructor and Asia Argento appears courtesy of daddy's production pull.…
Review by Sally Jane Black 4

The effects, the makeup, the gore are all delightfully excessive. It doesn't pull many punches (the dog and the kid get turned into demons!). And there's a scene where body builders rally heroically only to be decimated. I mean, this is quality stupidity.
Review by Jayson Kennedy ★★½ 1

There's a far more interesting movie between Demons (1985) and this loose sequel. The outbreak is treated as a past event with activists seeking answers trespassing into a walled-off zone where the demons have been defeated. Many of their questions are ours too, but also who stopped the onslaught? How long and widespread was the battle? Why has society, as the movie puts it, "almost forgotten" about the totally unprecedented nightmare?
Instead all this is confined to an investigative report on TV watched in an apartment building. The team accidently awaken a mummified demon and it pops out of a television into the complex beginning the terror anew. A more simple set-up that could be repeated if this found box…
Review by Hollie Horror ★★★ 9

I hate to start off a little blurb with my thoughts on Demons 2 this way but I don't really have a choice... I remember this movie being much better than it actually is, I always used to consider it possibly not as well-made as Demons but just as "good"/enjoyable and sadly, it's not even in the same league. There's a great soundtrack with the likes of The Smiths and The Church and I LOVED the eyes of the Demons but the movie just doesn't match the greatness of 1985's Demons. Demons 2 does not hold up nearly as well. Much like the disappointment of Evil Dead II being a rehash of Evil Dead there are many elements in Demons 2 rehashed from its predecessor the year before. I'm truly bummed out but it's still a lot of fun, mainly thanks to "Sally" played by Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni and a baby demon.
Review by Bob McCully ★★★★½ 9

In the history of perfect sequels, Demons 2 remains in the top of its class.
The nightmare returns but this time in an apartment building with a whole new cast of characters watching that same cursed flick on their TV screens until the wretched beasts burst literally out of the cathode-ray tube and into their world.
This film is caked in G.O.O.P., who ever knew demons drooled so much! I guess Lamberto Bava did!
But for every drip of drool, there's as much drops of blood and explosive carnage. This thing is rammed with action, feeling like the unholy cousin of Die Hard but full of supernatural flesh-ripping instead of shadowy bullet showers.
I seriously cannot imagine a horror fan…
Review by Geoff T ★★½

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Demons 2 (1986)
With Demons 2, Lamberto Bava and Argento attempt to recreate the fun of the original film with a different setting.
This time, a bunch of tenants in an apartment block are living their lives while a documentary based around the events of the first movie is playing on television. While the residents briefly enjoy themselves (a birthday celebration here, a gym workout there), the TV signal again releases a curse that transforms people into the same flesh-hungry demons as before.
Now you'd think a high-rise apartment complex would make for a just as enjoyable experience. Despite some general moments of insanity though, this follow-up surprisingly bored me, aimlessly…

Recent reviews

Review by Ian ★★★★

I think I prefer this to the original. Set in an apartment building and the vessel for the demons is television which gives the saying TV will rot your brain.
But this one as structure than the original you know where people are situated like elevator shaft, a gym, and apartments.
Demons are creepy to from the first victim bitch to the really creepy kid which gives birth to a ghoulie??
Review by Alex Little ★★★½

Impressed by the athleticism of these demons. Diving over flame-lit cars... descending ropes head first... they can truly do anything they put their mind to!
Almost as good as the first - or even better? I think it's a bit strange calling it Demons 2 just because that name looks silly but I suppose it is more of the same isnt it? Those colours though hey, bright!
Review by David Sodergren ★★★★★

Oh Demons 2, let me count the ways I love you!
The last thirty minutes are about as good as 80s horror cinema gets for me. From the Gremlins-inspired baby demon attack (with Simon Boswell’s wonderful riff-heavy score) to the hysterical elevator shaft chase to Bobby Rhodes as a no-nonsense personal trainer, it’s the gift that keeps on giving.
Review by schliceolyfe ★★★★

This is like gremlins 2 with shitty metal and better gore. Think High Rise with Muppets.
Review by andersoncrook ★★★

Kinda dig that Lamberto Bava pretty much remade the first Demons, but targeted it to dorks like me who like hanging out at home and prefer Love and Rockets to Motley Crue...
Review by Kat Hughes ★★★

Sticking so closely to the original means that Demons 2 is equally gnarly, however the repetition makes it hard to keep the same hold over the viewer. In Demons, there’s a wonderful transformation scene that sees teeth dropping out and being replaced by fangs; this scene is repeated in the sequel, but having already witnessed it, the shock and awe magic is lost. Perhaps if this were to be watched in isolation from, or with some distance from Demons, the impact would be greater. Watching them closely together though is likely to cause a little franchise fatigue, which given this is only film two, is not a good sign.
Review by harangerish ★★★★★

gremlins (no strings attached)
Review by Jason Ruvaldt ★★★½

3rd viewing. Viewing Notes: Anchor Bay DVD
Review by John ★★★

A bunch of generic white people (and one kick-ass black guy) are hunted down and killed by other generic white people wearing a lot of prosthetics and makeup. It's rad as hell and demonstrates once again how television will kill us all.
Review by Chris Ward ★★★★★

"...Demons 2 is a hoot that still delivers a few creepy moments and never fails to entertain."
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Review by Grant Chapman ★★★★

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A fun film but not up to the first film, this time its a demon outbreak in a tower block, the demon comes out from the tv during a movie, the girl comes out and attacks the guests, the outbreak spreads and thats the film, it works best for me with the people trapped in the parking levels, the little creature is pointless and dont make sense and the ending a bit weird and drawn out.
Still a fun film and pity no part 3 came out :-(
Review by JackMediaSlave ★★★½

Sally Day’s birthday party is about to begin and you’re invited!
The first film used a movie theatre as its locale, with Demons II we get a whole new collection of characters who all are residing in a high rise apartment building.
Top notch practical effects and stunt work all add to the fun.
Has good scares as well as humor.
Highly recommended.