Wednesday, October 23, 2013

31 Days of Horror Movie 23



Night of the Demon
1980
Image Entertainment Horror Collection Extravaganza DVD

This is another film I heard about for decades. I never saw the VHS for rent. And never saw it airing on TV. Code Red released it to DVD. But I didn't manage to get a copy before it went out of print. So when I heard about this 6 film collection from Image Entertainment I had to get it. Got it last year as a X-mas gift.

A college professor and some of his students head out into the woods searching for Bigfoot. And really there isn't much plot to this film. It is just a bunch of gory kills. Most of which are great. Bigfoot uses a hand ax to kill some people. But the most infamous scene is when a biker pulls over to take a piss. He is whizzing on a bush. And Bigfoot happens to be in that bush. So Bigfoot reaches up and rips the biker's cock off. The biker stumbles off and bleeds to death.

This film has an pretty interesting history. Over in the United States it was almost forgotten a few years after it hit VHS. But over in the UK it was added to the video nasty list. So it became a huge cult classic.

Night of the Demon gets a C+.