Why anyone might want to remake Night Of The Demons is beyond me but some guy did. Adam Gierasch is the director. He directed Autopsy and one more coming out. Haven't seen either and if they are anything like this one I hope not to. The original is a 1988 movie with Linnea Quigley. She was in a lot of movies where her clothes seem to fall off pretty easily and NOTD was no exception. She danced around naked a bit and there's is that somewhat famous scene where she sticks a lipstick into her nipple. There isn't as much nudity in the current movie even though main star Shannon Elizabeth has doffered her top in the past. They do remake the lipstick scene but neither Sperhauk or I thought it was improved in anyway, which begs the question, why even remake such a recent movie. In both movies some kids are slaughtered by the demons that are inhabiting the place they wind up partying. A funeral home in the original and a New Orleans mansion in the remake. One by one they get murdered and turned into demons. Edward Furlong plays a drug dealer and he really looks the part. One of the girls will get through the movie and escape. Unfortunately we didn't escape seeing this dull horror movie. It drags on at times and there isn't anything much exciting going on for long stretches. There are some flashbacks to explain why the demons are there. Didn't like the characters much and wouldn't bother watching this one again.
Same goes for the second movie, a pretentios bit of bother called Franklyn. Greg got a bootleg of this 2008 movie from a guy he knows. The story unfolds in two places, London in our world and some alternate reality type of place. That place looks pretty interesting, but the whole movie doesn't stay there. In fact that other reality turns out to be all in the imagination of one of the characters not something that is happening alternatively to our world. At the core of the story we have a dad looking for his mentally disturbed son who's killed a guard while escaping from a mental institution. There's a girl who tries to kill herself for some sort of bogus unthought out art project. She's one of those people who thinks she wants to be an artist without actually being one. They have schools for them and that's a shame. There's a guy who's fiancee walked out on him before the wedding and he's all bummed out. He's actually seeing an imaginary friend from his youth. Sadly none of these story bits are that interesting and I didn't find the characters very appealing. The 98 minute movie drags on and we started talking about what a piece of prentiousness it was. You can always tell how unengaging a movie is by the amount of conversation that occurs. It scores well, 6.1, at the IMDb as people seemed to like it. It got quite a few tens on that site, and if 10 is the best movie ever, than it's no ten. The guy who gave a copy to Greg really liked it but I don't know why. There are parts that look interesting but once you get to the payoff it's all very anticlimactic. You might like the thing but for me it's yet another movie I won't have to buy or look at again. Luckily for Greg someone gave him a copy. Yay, for bootleggers!
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