Night of the Demons (2009) poster
2009 · horror · action · comedy · supernatural

Night of the Demons

Directed by Adam Gierasch1h 33m2009
ElsewhereIMDb4.79kRT35%
  • sombre
  • kinetic
  • extreme
  • inventive
  • cold
Movie DNA

Sombre, breathless, extreme horror / action, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Angela is throwing a decadent Halloween party at New Orleans' infamous Broussard Mansion. But after the police break up the festivities, Maddie and a few friends stay behind. Trapped inside the locked mansion gates, the remaining guests uncover a horrifying secret and soon fall victim to seven vicious, blood-thirsty demons.

Our read · Night of the Demons (2009) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive horror · action · comedy entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want trashy Halloween party horror with demons, gore, and cult remake energy.

ends ambiguousyou’ll be fine aftersteady all the waygrips by minute 12attention 2/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upnuditygorejump scaresgraphic violence

Skip it tonightSkip if schlocky demon carnage and party nudity kill the mood.

If Night of the Demons is your film
Night of the Demons (1988)
the cult original this remake channels
(unless dated practical effects bore you)
Pumpkinhead (1988)
rural demon revenge with creature-feature mayhem
(if slow Southern Gothic pacing drags)
Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight (1995)
trapped-in-a-building demon siege fun
(unless campy nineties horror isn't your taste)
DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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