

Demons
They will make cemeteries their cathedrals and the cities will be your tombs.
A group of people are trapped in a West Berlin movie theater infested with ravenous demons who proceed to kill and possess the humans one-by-one, thereby multiplying their numbers.
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6.6/10
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $1.8M
- Box office
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- Language
- English
- berlin, germany
- gore
- demon
- movie theater
- violence
- enthusiastic
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Behind the camera
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Music
Produced in
Italy
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalNR30 May 1986
- PremiereNew York Museum of Arts and Design23 Jul 2010
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical181 Jan 1987
AustraliaAU
- Theatrical1 Nov 1986
FinlandFI
- PremiereNight Visions Film Festival30 Oct 2005
- PremiereIik!! Horror Film Festival4 Nov 2005
- PremiereCinemare Film Festival7 Nov 2009
- PremiereNight Visions Film Festival4 Apr 2025
FranceFR
- Theatrical181 Oct 1986
- PhysicalDVD11 Oct 2007
- Digital / OTT16VOD28 Jul 2022
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1810 Nov 1985
Hong KongHK
- TheatricalIII14 Oct 1986
ItalyIT
- TheatricalVM184 Oct 1985
JapanJP
- TheatricalR18+26 Apr 1986
MexicoMX
- TheatricalD21 Sept 1989
PhilippinesPH
- TheatricalDavao19 Apr 1986
PolandPL
- Digital / OTT1631 Mar 2021
- PremiereOctopus Film Festival10 Aug 2024
Frequently asked questions
Demons was released on 4 October 1985.
Audience reviews
4- T8/10
talisencrw
7/21/2016
This was beautiful. It must be a strange experience, being a child of a great director, and following the very same genre. Do you go pretty much the same route, or try something vastly different? This would make a great double-bill, at an actual movie theatre, with the 50's edition of 'The Blob'--another film in which the cinema isn't the safe, dark, womb-like place we take for granted it is.
- G5/10
Gimly
9/3/2019
It's no _Night of the_ that's for sure, but I enjoyed it in parts. Paricularly fond of the coke punks and the pimp. Dubbing's a nightmare though. _Final rating:★★½ - Had a lot that appealed to me, didn’t quite work as a whole._
- J7/10
John Chard
10/25/2019
Metropol Mayhem! Demons (Demoni) is directed by Lamberto Bava and Bava co-writes the screenplay with Dario Argento, Dardano Sacchetti and Franco Ferrini. It stars Urbano Barberini, Natasha Hovey, Karl Zinny, Paola Cozzo, Fiore Argento and Geretta Giancarlo. Music is by Claudio Simonetti and cinematography by Gianlorenzo Battaglia. A wonderfully nutty spiced Spaghetti Horror, plot has a group of people trapped i…
- T10/10
TheTenth
10/29/2024
The Italian horror movies of the 80s was a genre in itself, could be violent giallos, or supernatural horror, or cannibal movies, at the time we were really both horrified but also mesmerised. With a simple story, Argento (story) and Bava (director) have people going to see a movie about demons and the demons come to life. But it's done well as a woman gets her face scratched by a mask and the same thing happens in t…
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