Dèmoni 2

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Dèmoni 2 (Demons 2)
Italian poster for Demoni 2
Directed by	Lamberto Bava
Produced by	Dario Argento
Written by	Dario Argento Lamberto Bava, Franco Ferrini, Dardano Sacchetti (story)
Starring	David Edwin Knight Nancy Brilli Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni Asia Argento
Music by	Simon Boswell Dead Can Dance Ian Astbury Billy Duffy
Release date(s)	1986
Running time	91 min.
Language	Italian (dubbed)
Preceded by	Dèmoni
Followed by	Dèmoni 3
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Dèmoni 2 (Demons 2) is a 1986 Italian horror film directed by Lamberto Bava and co-written and produced by Dario Argento.

Dèmoni 2 is a sequel to Bava's 1985 film Dèmoni and stars David Edwin Knight, Nancy Brilli, Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni, and Argento's youngest daughter Asia Argento in her debut film performance at age ten.

In this sequel, Bava opted to use British New Wave bands such as The Smiths, The Cult and Art of Noise for the soundtrack as opposed to heavy metal bands in the original Dèmoni.

[edit] Plot Outline

Set during one long evening and night, almost entirely in a 10-story, high-rise apartment complex in a nameless German city, a documentary is shown on TV about a group of four teenagers who investigate the legendary forbidden zone, in which a Demon infestation once took place (see Dèmoni). Finding a lifeless corpse of a demon, one of the teens causes it to revive by its own blood, and the demon makes its way into the nearby world via the television broadcast. Sally Day (Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni), a teenage girl celebrating her 16th birthday party at the time while her parents are out, is possessed by the demon while watching the documentary and soon the apartment complex in which she lives turns into a living nightmare.

Most of the action then focuses on various building tenants trying to escape from the demons and getting killed and possessed one by one. One of the tenants is a young legal intern, named George (David Edwin Knight), who gets stuck in an elevator after the demons knock out all electrical power in the building, while his very pregnant wife Hannah (Nancy Brilli), is trapped in their apartment by a possessed demon boy. While down in the basement car park, a group of body builders and athletic people, led by the building's gym instructor Hank, are besieged by increasing hordes of demons in which the possessed Sally becomes, more or less, the demons leader.