Demoni

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Dèmoni (Demons)
British quad Demoni poster
Directed by	Lamberto Bava
Produced by	Dario Argento
Written by	Story: Dardano Sacchetti Screenplay: Dario Argento Lamberto Bava Franco Ferrini Dardano Sacchetti
Starring	Urbano Barberini, Natasha Hovey, Paola Cozzo, Bobby Rhodes, Fiore Argento
Music by	Claudio Simonetti, Billy Idol, Mötley Crüe, Accept
Release date(s)	1985
Running time	88 min.
Language	English and Italian (dubbed)
Budget	$1,800,000 (reported)
Followed by	Demoni 2 (1986)
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Dèmoni (also known as Demons) is a 1985 Italian horror film directed by Lamberto Bava. Screenplay by Bava, Dario Argento, Franco Ferrini, and Dardano Sacchetti, from a story by Sacchetti. 88 minutes.

1 Plot summary
2 Cast
3 Trivia
4 Sequels

[edit] Plot summary

The film begins when two young women receive tickets to a free film screening at The Metropol, a newly opened movie theater. When they arrive they discover that a large crowd has shown up for the screening and they sit down to watch the movie, a violent horror film. One of the women gets attacked from the creature in the film. Out in the lobby a woman has scraped herself on the face with a bizarre mask, and she notices that the mask is the exact same as a prop used in the film. She goes to the bathroom, and as she looks in the mirror the cut on her face bursts open, spewing out a foul pus. She is soon transformed into a bloodthirsty, fanged demon. Before long the theater patrons are forced to battle for their lives as one by one they are transformed into vicious monsters.

[edit] Cast

Urbano Barberini...George
Natasha Hovey...Cheryl
Paola Cozzo...Kathy
Karl Zinny...Ken
Fiore Argento...Hannah
Bobby Rhodes...Tony
Nicoletta Elmi...Usherette
Michele Soavi...Man in Mask

[edit] Trivia

In addition to co-writing the script, Dario Argento also produced the film.
Argento's daughter Fiore plays the character of Hannah.
Michele Soavi, a devotee of Argento's work and his assistant director on several films, also served as an assistant director on Demoni and has two starring roles, as the man wearing the silver mask and as Jerry, one of the characters in the film playing at the Metropol.
Nicoletta Elmi, who plays the usherette, appeared in Argento's 1975 classic giallo Deep Red. She also had a small role in the 1971 horror film Twitch of the Death Nerve, directed by Mario Bava, the father of Demoni director Lamberto Bava.
Posters for Werner Herzog's Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht and Argento's Four Flies on Grey Velvet can be seen hanging in the Metropol's lobby.
This film was #53 on Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments.