Review of Night of the Demons 2 (1994) by Vince K — 27 Oct 2010

Not going to waste a lot of time reviewing this one. I mistakenly remembered the sequel to Night of the Demons being totally awesome. I thought it came out in the '80s, not 1994. I guess being stoned 100% of the time that year can explain my false memory.

I never forgot the great opening scene (it's totally fucking killer, Angela kills Jehovah's Witnesses who come to Hull House), and guess I confused the rest with the original (hadn't seen either in about 20 years).

Night of the Demons 2 wastes too much time establishing the characters who go to a Yale-like Catholic boarding school who are all complete preppies. This is a horror movie, not an episode of Melrose Place or something.

It takes an hour for someone to die, and by then I lost interest and couldn't wait for it to be over. The death scenes were horrible, noticeably low-budget, uninspired, cheesy (in a bad way), lacked creativity, and the pacing was so bad I could hardly pay attention.

Having a kick-ass nun should've been great, but wasn't. Her having the magical ability to grow her head back with the power of faith was the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen. And then all of a sudden in the finale Angela turns into a giant snake demon (ala Lair of the White Worm) and it's astoundingly great with CGI.

Unfortunately that part lasts a couple seconds and it looks like they spent the entire budget of the film on it (the following scenes with real make-up effects are insulting - you can see the wires pulling the tail back and forth).

Very disappointed. The only good part, besides the opening, is the scene at the Halloween party on campus where the preppies start dancing to "Rapture" by Morbid Angel. One of my favorite death metal songs at the time.

Also - I had a completely fun adventure driving around last night searching everywhere for a copy of the DVD, and it being horrible will never be able to take away from that.