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Film Review: Demons 2 (1986)
It?s been one year since the demons arose in 1985?s DEMONS and director Lamberto Bava wants to show you what the demons have been up to with DEMONS 2. This film has little in connection with the previous film but its ten story high-rise location is just as ominous as the movie theatre in the first film. This film starts off as it is Sally?s (Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni) birthday and she?s being thrown a huge party in which many people of the before mentioned building are invited. When she watches a cursed video transmission of a group of kids finding a burial site of demons she is herself possessed by a demon and begins wrecking havoc on her friends turning them all into blood thirsty demons. These demons then head out into the building killing everyone they come into contact with. Like the previous film this film has an ensemble cast in which you never know who will be infected next making it a very suspenseful film.
Bava and Dario Argento return to familiar territory with this film and although the premises are very similar they have fun with finding new ways to kill people (always an added plus to an entertaining horror film). Although not as ground breaking as the previous film this film has much more humor then the previous film and events get even more out of hand then before. With the success of the previous film this one was obviously a way in which to cash in on a good thing.
Where the film has problems are is the fact that the story is too much like the original and never tries to elaborate on what the first film created. Other than changing the location DEMONS 2 is a carbon-copy of the original which at the time of its release might have been a good thing but time has made it appear redundant and predictable leaving many the sour taste of ?been there, done that.?
There are a few stand out sequences ? actress Asia Argento in one of her earliest film roles, the body builders trapped in the parking garage under siege, and the mini-demon fighting the pregnant woman in her apartment, but these sequences are few and far in between.
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