Night of the Demon (1980)

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  November 5, 2011

  WrenchLT

  A killer Bigfoot beast mangles locals and a group of students who had set out to prove the existance of the ravenous hairy monster in the American wilderness. A bad film but it's not without it's fun and redeeming attributes. The kills are the stand-out moments for me - gory and ... read morequite humourous at times too. It's all quite cheesy from the acting to the dialogue, but the beast itself was actually not too bad looking, unfortunately you only really get to see it properly right at the end. In between the bloody death scenes the film does get a little boring at times when the bad and cheesy fun side loses it's appeal. It's not among my favourites of the video nasties but it entertains enough.

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  November 12, 2010

  animegirlaya

  Well yes and no is this really a good movie? Well to me it's a great horror movie that is slightly underrated and to Meany it could have been the best Halloween movie to watch. I have yet to see the other night of the demon movie but after august m's review I decided to see this ... read moredespite how terrible it looked from trailers and stills. But still it shows to be the best Bigfoot themed movie I have seen in years.
  
  So the movie is shown is flashbacks when our real Bigfoot raped some girl...........Gave birth to some screwed up mutation.........And it kills a few people.......Flashback........Flashback......Guy gets his dick ripped off.......Retard bigfoot's son!......The end
  
  I don't think it is worthy of the title of night of the demon here are a few of mine
  
  *Retarded Bigfoot
  *Annoyingly awesome film with bad flashbacks and a retarded looking Bigfoot
  *BIGFOOT RAPES!
  *BIGFOOT RAPEY GIVES BIRTH TO MONSTER!
  *Don't go into the woods or Bigfoot will get you
  *IT RAPES!
  *forest holocaust only with Bigfoot
  *Or just plain looking retarded Bigfoot.
  
  But the title doesn't matter its only a really cool film with screwed up bigfoot.
  
  -100% for story for all the film you like WTF just happened the kill scenes are the best part.
  
  70% for acting is okay at best
  
  20% bloodiest kill scenes yet the lamest effects I have ever seen. For example
  
  *He pushes some guy onto a pitchfork
  *Makes 2 people stab each other
  *And tears out some guys intestines
  
  Most things I have seen is that Bigfoot rarely ever kills someone with his hands it all the environment kills WERE ARE THE CLAWS????? AND BIG FEET??????????
  
  60% for characters Bigfoot is the best one out of all
  
  80% for everything else
  
  All I can say from this point is awesome Bigfoot themed film that needs just one watch. Skip throw the flashbacks though.
  
  Keiko's score 70-100

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  November 18, 2007

  harrycaul

  I've seen some dreadful movies out of idle curiosity but this one is right up there with the worst of them. So hilariously inept it's hard to imagine that anyone could be upset by it, amazingly this still hasn't been released uncut in the UK, at least not since the Video Recordin... read moregs Act of 1984. Unfortunately, it loses its sense of humour about halfway through and becomes a bit of a chore thereafter. The highlight comes early on, a classic sleeping-bag death scene that is one of the funniest things I've witnessed.

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  January 8, 2012

  fb137801577

  With a title like "Night of the Demon" one would assume that the film is about... well... a demon, as in a spawn from hell. Hard to believe that the film is actually about Bigfoot! Similarly titled films like the 1957 British horror film "Night of the Demon" and the 1988 American... read more film "Night of the Demons" got it right as they had... well... demons. Despite the questionable title I do have to admit that "Night of the Demon" is one of my all-time favorite guilty pleasures as not only is it a bigfoot film, but the goriest bigfoot film ever made making it a bona fide slasher that rivals the likes of "Friday the 13th"!
  
  The film opens with a man badly burnt in the hospital telling authorizes about the horror he went through that he barely survived. This predictably sets up the rest of the film in flashback mode and if you hate flashbacks then you are going to find yourself hitting your head a lot as there are even flashbacks within flashbacks. It seems that he almost died after taking a group of students into some remote woods to look for bigfoot, who has been tied to multiple brutal murders in the area. As you can guess... they find the thing!
  
  The title sequence sets the film up perfectly with our bigfoot tearing off a fisherman's arm and his bloody stump bleeding out and filling one of the monsters footprints. This lets the viewers know this isn't going to be your average sasquatch film along the lines of "The Legend of Boggy Creek" and "Creature From Black Lake." This is the 1980s and our filmmakers knew bloody slashers were making money at the box office so they wisely decide to gore the film up making bigfoot a backwoods slasher killing people in such awe dropping bloody ways that they would even impress the likes of Jason Vorheese. I'm talking about limb rippage, axes to heads, pitchforks through torsos and impaling sleeping campers by throwing their sleeping bags onto sharp sticks (reminiscent of John Frankenheimer's "Prophecy"). The killing that takes the cake however and the one that made this a cult favorite is a kill in which our bigfoot rips off the dick of a biker taking a leak on the side of the road. Seriously, I can't make this shit up!
  
  The gory killings are a lot of fun but sadly the rest of the "plot" is novice at best. Lots of bad acting, lots of mundane narration, lots of people talking in lumberjack shirts and lots of disjointed flashbacks. Thankfully the gory killings are spread throughout the film to keep the viewers interested. The picture does rear its ugly head into disturbing territory when we learn about a young girl who lives out in the middle of the woods with her bible thumping father gets raped by our hairy fiend and actually gives birth to a bloody human/bigfoot hybrid!
  
  "Night of the Demon" is Z-grade horror entertainment but at least it ENTERTAINS unlike many Z-grade horror films. Despite the disjointed flashblack plot flow and bad acting, the ultra violence and gore is enough to keep any fan of early 80s slashers and/or bigfoot horror films entertained. For that element alone this obscure, bizarre and mistitled bigfoot slasher is well worth hunting down and Code Red released a wonderful edition transferred from original 1" tape masters as the original prints and negatives have been lost.

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  February 4, 2009

  RCMerchant

  Wow...a bloody Bigfoot movie! HARRY and the HEDERSON this is not. Bigfoot offs unhappy campers in cool,bloody ways. One shmuck even gets his shlong ripped off while taking a piss! YOWIE!!! A cool low budget gem that every gore hound should see at least once.

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