Directed by Jim Kaufman
1997
Rated R
85 minutes
Summary from IMDB: A group of bad twenty-something actors posing as teens wind up hiding out at the “possessed” HULL HOUSE after a shootout with some cops in a convenience store. Resident hussy ghoul Angela (Amelia Kinkade) makes them feel welcome in gory ways while they have sex at the drop of a piece of lint.
My rating: ★ out of 5
"C'mon children, morning is almost here. It's time to return to the bowels of hell!"
Let it be said that I never suffer for my readers but after reviewing the first two films of the classic Night Of The Demons series and the remake it just didn't seem right to skip over the worse in the franchise. And believe me I'm sitting here with several large cups of coffee and a bowl filled with munchies to ponder my way through this film just to put a checkmark next to my 'review ALL of the Night Of The Demons films'. Somehow I just have a strange feeling like I should strap myself into this computer chair and put a large metal device around my head just to keep me from moving and force my eyes open to keep from escaping the shock of what is to come.
First of all let me state that this sequel to the franchise was thrown together on a very minimal budget when Kevin S. Tenney, who wrote and directed the original movie, became available to write another chapter in Angela's twisted film saga. This actually sounds like a very positive start but due to a scheduling conflict with Kevin they were forced to grab Jim Kaufman, who was the cheapest available director at the time. Jim was mostly experienced with some lesser known television shows and a few made for cable thriller movies but was more then willing to take up the challenge. Nothing could possibly prepare anyone from the train wreck that was about to happen when casting was completed and Amelia Kinkade was called back in to play Angela again only to discover that she was the only experienced and talented person there when filming actually started. Everything about the film just didn't function at all properly including the dialogue which is left completely unpolished and delivered by the actors with hardly much emotion at all outside of screaming, throwing lame insults around, and just plain acting like they all just got out of acting school.
Of course the next failure to drop in the bucket started with a horribly low special effects budget that just turned every scene they were used for into an inside joke because of how laughable they appeared on screen. Angela's demonic face looked far more like a bad dime store mask, the gore and demon forms of the actors just seemed cheesy and the CGI that was used was simplistic and more worthy of being on a TV show then a movie. Jim never seemed to understand that less is more when you deal with certain kinds of film making and seemed to really enjoy pushing the sexual nature of every shot he could get away with it in. Characters just seemed to be constantly bouncing between states of violence or sex and clothing being removed more often then you would expect it even for previous films in this franchise.
To save you from suffering like I am doing now by watching this.. monstrosity...let me summarize the storyline for you here quickly. A group of troubled teens are out on Halloween night looking to making mischief when they stumble across some innocent girls with car trouble on their way to a school dance and offer to give them a ride. The bad attitude guys go inside a Quick-E-Mart for some beer and cigarettes which leads to an altercation with the store owner and a couple cops who wonder in at just the wrong time. A fire fight with a shotgun and pistols takes place which sends the teens scattering and dragging one of their badly wounded friends back to their van and driving off thinking they killed one of the policemen. The leader of the teens decides to hide out at Hull House since nobody in their right mind goes anywhere near it after all of the missing people and bodies that keep showing up there every Halloween. Of course Angela is already preparing for her demonic annual traditions and welcomes her guests with surprise attacks that pick them off one at a time and possessing them.
I probably should save you the brain cells being lost while trying to figure out how the survivors escape from the clutches of Angela's demons and what happens to them when they finally stumble across the police chasing after them. It's hardly worth the explanation and figuring out how a homicide detective knows enough magic to do parlor tricks for the occasional suspect but somehow manages to throw out magical words that can match the power level of Angela who is a freaking demon for crying out loud. It's pretty obvious that some folks get away and Angela once again has to wait for another Halloween to escape her prison inside Hull House.
It's a real shame that this mess was the last time that Amelia Kinkade played the role of Angela and she has since moved on from her acting days to making a living as a animal psychic. You really would think that a special edition of the original Night Of The Demons with Amelia and Linnea Quigley doing commentary together would be worth doing for an Anniversary or something. Oh well.
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However I was able to locate this one sexy scene with Angela showing her own unique way of dealing with a horny teenager waving a gun at her..
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