Judy and Jay go to a secret Halloween party at an abandoned funeral home, thrown by local weirdo Angela. Soon the crowd has gathered, the beers are flowing, the strobe light is flashing, and the punk music is blaring.
When the boom box mysteriously turns off on its own, they decide to entertain themselves by conducting a "past life seance," which involves staring into a big old dusty mirror in a "Bloody Mary" sort of way. When one of the girls sees a horrible face in the mirror and everyone hears and smells something unusual, some of the partiers decide that the house is possessed by a demons.
Unfortunately, they're right. One of the girls, Suzanne (played by scream queen Linnea Quigley), inhales a strange smoky substance and starts acting weird. She passes the demonic influence to Angela, and the two of them begin to kill off their fellow party-goers one by one using supernatural trickery. Some of them try to escape the funeral home, only to discover that the gate in the brick wall surrounding the place seems to have disappeared, and there's no way out. Can Judy and her friends find a way to escape the funeral home with their lives?
Night of the Demons is far from "good," but it contains all sorts of awesome things. It has a healthy supply of 80s excesses: partying, nudity, violence, gore... It even has a 100% superfluous kill at the end of the movie that has nothing to do with anything and doesn't make a lot of sense, but provides one last bit of bloody violence before the generic 80s rock song plays us out over the credits.
Night of the Demons is best suited for group viewing, so you can share the WTF moments with friends (particularly the one where Suzanne does the single weirdest thing in the history of movies) and refer back to the highlight moments in later conversation. Unfortunately, as a solo watch, its innate stupidity becomes all too apparent and it's hard for the good outweigh the bad. So get a group together, crack open some cans of party juice, and enjoy the strangeness.
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