The movie follows a group of kids go to a Halloween party at New Orleans' infamous Broussard Mansion. Trapped inside the locked mansion gates, they uncover a horrifying secret and soon fall victim to seven vicious, blood-thirsty demons.
Night of the Demons is far from great. But considering the truly awful, unwatchable direct-to-video horror titles that make their way to retail and rental shelves, it's easily among the best of the bunch.
Edward Furlong plays a depressed, catastrophe-hit loser who goes to a party in a haunted house and is duly pursued by demons. You feel the part wasn't much of a stretch.
there are characters about whom we never care, incidents which never grip, and only the occasional moments of creative grand guignol ever raise the viewer's pulse.
Radio Times
September 16, 2010
Patience with the braindead script's predictability runs thin as the pacing slackens off and the contrived sickness continually fails to shock.
When you've missed the nuances of a lipstick-in-boob scene, you know you're lost.
BrianOrndorf.com
October 18, 2010
Certainly inferior to the original Demons, the glossy remake nevertheless has a few shining moments before a case of the low-budget blahs comes to crash the party.
A load of overwrought nonsense in which the souls of seven twentysomethings are imperilled when they disturb the undead quietly mouldering in the basement.
A handful of recognizable faces, fair amount of ghoulishness, and peppy can-do attitude can't match the cheese-fueled charm of the faulted-but-fun original.
