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I can't even begin to put into words how happy I am about this upload. About an hour ago, some extended family members that I haven't seen for years, who have been pieces of s**t in the past, "Blessed" me with their presence, uninvited, and with no warning. Now I have a reason to put my headphones on and act like I am working, in the hope that they will leave. This comment I am currently writing, when I stop typing it, will be described as an important work message.
@JasonBrant Just typing this so they'll get the message without me sending them and their kids back out onto the motorway, without me resorting to being as rude as they are. Really enjoy your content mate.
This is one of the greatest horror movies ever made. Demons 2 is also equally as good. This is one of the first horror movies I watched along with The Evil Dead when I was about 12 years old. I found my mother's horror movie vhs tapes and I've loved horror movies ever since.
"Chekhov's Gun" is what he was possibly thinking of. People confuse the original meaning of Chekhov's Gun, but it is more about not focusing on superfluous details that won't pay off by the end, not making sure to foreshadow something you use by the end. Both are important and related, though. And I gotta say I chuckled when I was typing this and then noticed your avatar is original Trek related and I'm writing about a "Chekov."
2 things: Thank you for covering this movie, I loved watching it. Second, I thought of it as the theater kept them inside until the ratio between infected and non-infected was more skewed towards infected.
As Brandon Tenold said in his review of this movie years ago, Italian horror and sci-fi are more about fast pacing with interesting visuals/atmosphere than a coherent script or plot which can make perfect "turn off your brain and enjoy" popcorn flicks.
My understanding of budget Italian films is that they just type the script up in whatever language is native to the talent and let them speak in their native tongue/via their lines. And then it's all dubbed into English. So, often the actors don't understand one another as they are speaking different languages. And this gives us the fantastic acting and dubbing that we love in Italian B movies.
Hong Kong films used to be done in a similar fashion. Wasn't unheard of for the western actors to just be counting instead of having actual dialogue, as the films were all dubbed into Cantonese and whatever foreign languages were required later on.
A key aspect of this (in both Italy and Hong Kong) is that the movies were shot silent, which makes production faster and cheaper and the movies easier to dub later. Not sure how much this is done in Italy anymore, but I know in HK that hasn't been standard for 20-odd years.
"Look, I don't think we should put this on, you might get possessed by a demon." "How do you know that?" "It says so right there." 10/10 writing. xD The dubbing in some of these movies is just hilarious too. And Erin just seemed to be having way too much fun here. "Looks like she got rode hard and put away wet." xD
Bobby Rhodes (the pimp character) was too badass for the film, that's why they had to kill him off. I'm glad you guys covered this because the Horror Geek (Mike Bracken) did a great review of it a little while back and more people should see it. Oh, and the masked man was horror icon Michele Suavi.
Unfortunately, this is not a So Bad Its Good movie, its just simply an iconic horror classic and the sequel is pretty great as well. Dario Argento doesnt play around when it comes to the blood factor either.
I love the fact that this movie plays with the fear some silly people have that violent movies will make you violent. This was '85 and movies were being banned or put on lists in many countries: " video nasties", satanic panic etc..Silent Night, deadly night was pulled off movie theatres just a year before. And here comes this movie, making fun of it and delivering great gore, some awesome scenes and a great score. Not my favourite movie, but a freaking enjoyable one.
Don't let Erin watch King Lear. In Act III, Scene VII as a character is getting his eye gouged out another has an epic line: "Out, vile jelly! Where is thy lustre now?"
I used to watch this movie quite a lot as a teen. When they start playing accept - fast as a Shark and he goes nuts with his sword and bike it's pure movie heaven.
Mony Mony was originally a hit for Tommy James And The Shondells, it hit #1 in 1967. James wrote the song. He was sitting in his small Manhattan cubicle where he wrote songs. He looked out the window and saw a neon sign on a nearby skyscraper spell out "M-O-N-Y.". He thought that was a great idea for a song. MONY stands for Mutual Of New York.
Claudio Simonetti did the soundtrack for this movie. Italian gialo and horror films from this era have some amazing soundtracks. Simonetti was in the band Goblin, who if you haven't listened to you really should check them out. Goblin did a lot of famous soundtracks to horror movies. Also, Geretta Geretta (Rick James) who played Rosemary in Demons is in one of the In Search of Darkness (I think) documentaries. Her stories and anecdotes about working and living in Italy making horror movies were very entertaining. Her stories would make a good podcast tbh
Jesus, this was a flashback from the deep dark depths of my long term memory. “… and then a helicopter fell through the roof!” became a recurring non-sequitur catchphrase.
When I was younger, I asked my Dad's friend to make me a copy of the original "Dawn of the Dead". He always put another movie on the tapes he'd make for us. He decided to double "Dawn" with THIS flick. Needless to say, I must've watched it 50 or 60 times back then. I even recently saw it in the theater with one of my movie theater friends. They'd never seen it before. They LOVED it as well. I can drive around to that theme song and the soundtrack for hours lol. 80's hair metal FTMFW.
I just saw this a couple weeks ago with Claudio Simonetti's Goblin playing the music live along with the movie. I laughed way too hard at Flash of the Blade being played during the bike sequence at the end.
That was Fast as a Shark by Accept. However, Iron Maiden's Flash of the Blade was played in Argento's Phenomena, another nutzoid Italian horror that came out the year before this one.
@@nathanaelpeace9550 Strange. Possibly another version of the movie. Come to think of it I saw clips of some other version and the incidental (not song) music was different in places.
Well this is a classic horror film…. It’s not a bad film at all… it’s well produced and directed. It’s loaded with crazy stuff for sure…it’s a real,treat…glad you watched it.
The movie is over the top and has some amazing gore to it. It's a legit good movie. Not sure if it is in the "so bad it is good" type of film. It's a good film that goes overboard at the end. A good flick for sure. Now.....if you want a Lamberto Bava film that is more bad but still kinda good, look up Monster Shark. It's a monster film that is basically an 80's version of Sharktopus. Although this thing looks like Dunkleosteus with octopus arms. And apparently it has a dolphin brain to make it smart. In the movie one of the actors says "imagine a creature that is half shark, half octopus, and half dolphin.".........that is 3 halves there doc!!!
😊 A simple trick Erin could use to better understand how to rate SBIG movies is to just think: Approve or Disapprove. I think her taking the Good/Bad aspect of SBIG too literal is what trips her up. Just a thought.
Grappling hooks are very useful.. for example.. what if you are one night mistaken for a homeless man and nearly set on fire and another homeless guy saves you, and it later turns out he has demonic knights chasing him and he wants you to steal the Holy Grail from a tower? What are you gonna do with no grappling hook?
@@JasonBrant I'm a huge fan horror and have done extensive research into the genre. Probably seen about 5,000 horror films over the years. I worked as a night security guard for 2 years where i watched parking lot for 12 hours night 5 nights week so watched lot films doing that lol. The masked man who gave out the tickets directed Cemetery Man. This is top tier Italian 80s horror. Along with Zombi2 aka Zombie aka Zombie Fleash Eaters and Cannibal Holocaust (check out the Grindhouse Releasing version where all the animal stuff is edited out).
Dario Argento is a legend. He had some bad lows admittedly, but his movies are generally good. He always refused to use modern special effects in favour of practicles realized by artists he knew which made some of his movie even creepier (while some others that were SBIG as a baseline looked even more comical). Deep Red (not sure that's the English title, I just translated literally) is unironically a great movie. If you watch that, it's hard to believe is the same director. PS Yes, it was filmed in Germany because at the time most European movies which aimed at foreign markets were co-produced with Germans. The Spaghetti Westerns were also all co-produced with German studios. PPS I'm not usre about it, but one of the guys in the car looked like Dario Argento, so I suspect those scenes were just there to give screen time to a relative.
Dario Argento is a legend . Worked with Bernardo Bertolucci and Sergio Leone (writer for the Once upon a Time in the West) and George Romero (producer, script consultant and soundtrack composer for the Dawn of the Dead). As a director he is responsible for The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, Suspiria and so on.
Aww I liked the first thumbnail, why’d it change? Anyway.. this one gets the stamp for sure, I’ve watched this a couple times before and when I saw the thumbnail I got excited 😂. Jason’s “oh it’s an Italian movie, somebody’s losing an eye” lols! I just can’t believe you didn’t make a point to show the dirt bike samurai in the theater lobby at the beginning, seems like something you would have included 😂. This one was fun
There's actually a Dario Argento museum, aptly named "Profondo Rosso" in Rome. At least at one point it was advertised as a museum, now it looks more like a storefront! 🔥👾🗡
Always look forward to Thursday's & Sunday's. By the way the music Erin is singing along to in the opening I think is Grieg and the theme song for the famous UK theme park, Alton Towers.
My 2nd grade teacher had never heard of Nostradamus either. She pronounced it "Nod-STRAH-damuss" when she was reading us a Beverly Cleary novel where one of the characters had a pet/familiar cat named Nostradamus. Er.....just thought i'd share.
Directed by the son of Mario Bava and produced by Dario Argento. This film was an attempt by Italian filmmakers to make a more mainstream horror film. Most Italian horror films from this time were really only popular among horror fans. Stuff like Cannibal Holocaust, Cannibal Apocalypse, Cannibal Ferox aka Make Them Die Slowly, Zombie and countless others. Graphic violence, nudity and questionable subject matter. Demons is one of the more entertaining Italian films.
This was great fun to watch! I loved the Demons movies when i was a young lad, yes i was way too young when i watched Demons and its sequel. They are cheesy and illogical but they were also quite scary back in the day. Cool soundtrack, special effects, 80’s style and overall just fun movies to watch with friends.
Frickin' great mov! Saw it on vhs. When you see italian guy named Urbano Barberini playing american reluctant hero who slashes demons in a movie theater with picked-up katana while riding a bike with a beautiful chick sitting behind, you know that this is the essence of awesomeness 😂 God, i love those 80s italian exploitation movies.
After watching this for years on vhs, I finally got to see it at the pictures. It was worth the wait. Check out the sequel, which is slightly more bonkers (and has The Smiths on the ST 😂)
I knew a kid in jr high that swore by this movie but I couldn't find it in any video story in my neighborhood. Out of nowhere clips and discussion videos of it started showing up on youtube 30 years later and I finally discovered what I had been missing.
Fun Fact: I was curious and found a site selling grapple hooks specifically for helicopters. The company is called Lift-It and they sell various rigging for helicopters like cargo nets and rescue equipment. Sadly, I didn't see any grapple guns.
I really think we should have Erin in a solo video explaining why she felt a movie was or wasn't SBIG, because I already love her just trying to understand herself when deciding, so I'm sure giving her more time to probably confuse herself more would be better than the movies itself.
The thing Brian is asking for is called Chekov's Gun. It's this idea that you do not devote resources to showing or saying something if it's not going to be used in the narrative. The example from which it gets its name is a gun hanging over a mantle. You do not draw attention to that gun if it is not going to serve some kind of purpose in the story either played straight, a red herring, or some other kind of subversion.
Dario Argento was an actual director with talent and a legacy of great to mediocre Gallo horror films. With varying degrees of quality what all his films have in common is a batshit insane sensibility! He made the original Suspiria.
I watched this the other day, and it turns out my wife just surprised me with tickets to see Goblin tonight doing a live score to Demons! Claudio Simonetti of Goblin fame did the soundtrack for this, probably since it is Dario Argento produced, and Goblin's history with his movies.
4:49 'NOSTRADAMUS...Yeah, Top of the Pops in 1500'. Nostradamus was AMERIGO VESPUCCI, sports fans: YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST! 17:27 Someone is showing off their 'Thriller' video vocabulary... 18:58 Erin's T: 'Are YOU...a GOD?' 😁😅🤣😂Classic. This tuneage really should have been included in their soundtrack line-up: th-cam.com/video/L21mYN9mFP4/w-d-xo.html 23:28 Brian: 'The R.O.T.O.R....!' You missed a golden moment in the editing suite, Brant. :D
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ah this is a great Fn movie! killing zombies using a katana whiles riding a bike, never even done since, and theres a DEMONS 2!
You guys should definitely check out the sequel!! You'll see some familiar faces from this one.
Not gonna lie, saw the Zbiotics ad spot and thought the actual movie was starting and it was gonna be lit.
Erin becomes more and more unhinged every episode, and I’m here for it.
The movies are rotting her brain.
The more she is exposed to SBIG the more she gets into it. The 'she got rode hard and put away wet' comment just creased me on the spot. xD
Someday, this channel will serve as a record of her supervillain origin arc.
@@jculver1674😆 Going around kicking people in the giggles as The Giggler.
I love it! Next is evolving into her final pinky ringed evil form! Erin starring in “Killed to the Death”! Lol
I can't even begin to put into words how happy I am about this upload. About an hour ago, some extended family members that I haven't seen for years, who have been pieces of s**t in the past, "Blessed" me with their presence, uninvited, and with no warning. Now I have a reason to put my headphones on and act like I am working, in the hope that they will leave. This comment I am currently writing, when I stop typing it, will be described as an important work message.
You should all sit down and watch it lol, might bring y'all together. ^_^ LOOOOOOOOVE SBIG!
Obviously a very important work message.
@JasonBrant Just typing this so they'll get the message without me sending them and their kids back out onto the motorway, without me resorting to being as rude as they are. Really enjoy your content mate.
We’re gonna need that “work” report from Q3 immediately. Way more important than guests…
Good luck!
"Guys, you ruined my joke."
"It's 'cause it wasn't good." (22:42)
FATALITY!
Brian was referring to Chekhov's gun. The concept is that if something is presented it must serve the story.
I know, lol.
@@JasonBrant Since you're an author, I figured you knew. Trying to help Brian avoid those blue screens of death 😉
It’s a MacGuffin
@@MattcruzedcNo, a McGuffin is an object that a plot revolves around.
@@RevanAlaire A McGuffin drives the plot but has no value itself.
This is one of the greatest horror movies ever made. Demons 2 is also equally as good. This is one of the first horror movies I watched along with The Evil Dead when I was about 12 years old. I found my mother's horror movie vhs tapes and I've loved horror movies ever since.
Really looking forward to Demons 2!
@@JasonBrant Glad you're doing Demons 2, plot-wise it's a little silly, but it's also way scarier.
@@JasonBrantFunny thing about Demons 2 is it uses some of the same actors but playing different parts.
@@JasonBrant I think you may also add these to the list:
- Bloody muscle bodybuilder in hell 1995 (Japanese Evil Dead)
- Demon Wind 1990
Cool. I wish my mom liked horror movies!😢
Opening dialog:
So are we seeing another movie?
Yep!
Dammit…..
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Demons is not SBIG, it's pure gold and a classic!
It's gold, but definitely not pure 🤣
@@JasonBrant I respect your opinion, even when it's clearly wrong.. :)
@@JasonBrant its pure entertainment!
@@peterhospodar7876 It's definitely wrong.
The music is "In the Hall of the Mountain King" by Edvard Grieg. And the foreshadowing things is "Chekov's Gun."
The word Brian was looking for, that describes the setup things in a film, that is paid off later, is "foreshadowing".
"Chekhov's Gun" is what he was possibly thinking of. People confuse the original meaning of Chekhov's Gun, but it is more about not focusing on superfluous details that won't pay off by the end, not making sure to foreshadow something you use by the end. Both are important and related, though. And I gotta say I chuckled when I was typing this and then noticed your avatar is original Trek related and I'm writing about a "Chekov."
2 things: Thank you for covering this movie, I loved watching it. Second, I thought of it as the theater kept them inside until the ratio between infected and non-infected was more skewed towards infected.
As Brandon Tenold said in his review of this movie years ago, Italian horror and sci-fi are more about fast pacing with interesting visuals/atmosphere than a coherent script or plot which can make perfect "turn off your brain and enjoy" popcorn flicks.
For sure) Lucio Fulci's Gates of hell trilogy is a good example)
My understanding of budget Italian films is that they just type the script up in whatever language is native to the talent and let them speak in their native tongue/via their lines. And then it's all dubbed into English. So, often the actors don't understand one another as they are speaking different languages. And this gives us the fantastic acting and dubbing that we love in Italian B movies.
Hong Kong films used to be done in a similar fashion. Wasn't unheard of for the western actors to just be counting instead of having actual dialogue, as the films were all dubbed into Cantonese and whatever foreign languages were required later on.
It's a true surprise these are incomprehensible plots.
A key aspect of this (in both Italy and Hong Kong) is that the movies were shot silent, which makes production faster and cheaper and the movies easier to dub later. Not sure how much this is done in Italy anymore, but I know in HK that hasn't been standard for 20-odd years.
I love the glances at the camera when Erin starts to explain.
"She'd be popular at a "dive" bar". The references to other episodes is one of the best parts of So Bad It's Movies
So Bad It's Movies 🤣
"Look, I don't think we should put this on, you might get possessed by a demon."
"How do you know that?"
"It says so right there."
10/10 writing. xD The dubbing in some of these movies is just hilarious too. And Erin just seemed to be having way too much fun here.
"Looks like she got rode hard and put away wet." xD
That dialogue cracked me up!
Jason and Erin's reaction to Brian's comment about AC/DC is the exact same reaction I had... "REALLY????" haha
One of the most badass scenes ever...the motorcycle/samurai sword part with ACCEPT's ,"FAST AS A SHARK" playing in the background!!!!
Bobby Rhodes (the pimp character) was too badass for the film, that's why they had to kill him off. I'm glad you guys covered this because the Horror Geek (Mike Bracken) did a great review of it a little while back and more people should see it. Oh, and the masked man was horror icon Michele Suavi.
Unfortunately, this is not a So Bad Its Good movie, its just simply an iconic horror classic and the sequel is pretty great as well. Dario Argento doesnt play around when it comes to the blood factor either.
I love the fact that this movie plays with the fear some silly people have that violent movies will make you violent. This was '85 and movies were being banned or put on lists in many countries: " video nasties", satanic panic etc..Silent Night, deadly night was pulled off movie theatres just a year before. And here comes this movie, making fun of it and delivering great gore, some awesome scenes and a great score. Not my favourite movie, but a freaking enjoyable one.
"I'll be awake all night after this."
"Will you shut up."
"I love this guy. Stop talking during the goddamn movie."
Jason has found his soulmate.
Don't let Erin watch King Lear. In Act III, Scene VII as a character is getting his eye gouged out another has an epic line: "Out, vile jelly! Where is thy lustre now?"
I used to watch this movie quite a lot as a teen. When they start playing accept - fast as a Shark and he goes nuts with his sword and bike it's pure movie heaven.
Brian was on fire tonight! 🔥😂 *for the record I always called it “Ro-TOR” too, just much more cheap 80’s action sci-fi sounding lol 😂
Mony Mony was originally a hit for Tommy James And The Shondells, it hit #1 in 1967. James wrote the song. He was sitting in his small Manhattan cubicle where he wrote songs. He looked out the window and saw a neon sign on a nearby skyscraper spell out "M-O-N-Y.". He thought that was a great idea for a song. MONY stands for Mutual Of New York.
Claudio Simonetti did the soundtrack for this movie. Italian gialo and horror films from this era have some amazing soundtracks. Simonetti was in the band Goblin, who if you haven't listened to you really should check them out. Goblin did a lot of famous soundtracks to horror movies.
Also, Geretta Geretta (Rick James) who played Rosemary in Demons is in one of the In Search of Darkness (I think) documentaries. Her stories and anecdotes about working and living in Italy making horror movies were very entertaining. Her stories would make a good podcast tbh
I'll look her up. Thanks!
Goblin are FANTASTIC.
@@JasonBrant he's a dude. All of Goblin are Dudes, Dude.
@@zuludawn9932yes, but the second person I mentioned is a her suggesting he knows who Goblin is, but the actress from the movie, he does not.
@@alun7006they really are. A class all their own
It feels like only yesterday I typed out a comment about "Whoever wears it becomes a demon"...
I'm so happy you guys covered this mess :)
Hope you dig the video!
"You are gonna cut that right?"
Jason: "Sure, sure"
Jajajajajajajajajaja
That comment "Two out of three Axis powers" is an all time great Brian comment, for sure.
Woah woah this isn't a bad movie, wth. Hell that demon transformation alone is worth seeing this for
Jesus, this was a flashback from the deep dark depths of my long term memory. “… and then a helicopter fell through the roof!” became a recurring non-sequitur catchphrase.
"The movie's to blame for all of this."
"You're right!"
Heh.
I love how the guys can't fathom an italian movie filmed in germany.
Too much for our puny minds.
@@JasonBrant You said it.
When I was younger, I asked my Dad's friend to make me a copy of the original "Dawn of the Dead". He always put another movie on the tapes he'd make for us. He decided to double "Dawn" with THIS flick. Needless to say, I must've watched it 50 or 60 times back then. I even recently saw it in the theater with one of my movie theater friends. They'd never seen it before. They LOVED it as well. I can drive around to that theme song and the soundtrack for hours lol. 80's hair metal FTMFW.
Oh hell yes! finally this movie gets the attention it deserves. A true SBIG classic
It's so much fun!
4:37 “that’ll teach you to touch things”
Yeah, how dare you go around… Touching… Things
I just saw this a couple weeks ago with Claudio Simonetti's Goblin playing the music live along with the movie. I laughed way too hard at Flash of the Blade being played during the bike sequence at the end.
Sounds like a cool experience.
That was Fast as a Shark by Accept. However, Iron Maiden's Flash of the Blade was played in Argento's Phenomena, another nutzoid Italian horror that came out the year before this one.
@@Emulous79oh! At the show I saw they just played Flash again
@@nathanaelpeace9550 Strange. Possibly another version of the movie. Come to think of it I saw clips of some other version and the incidental (not song) music was different in places.
For long time viewers of this channel: Which comes first for Jason, a restraining order from Brian or divorce papers from Erin?
🤣
Both served to him at the same time.
One of my favs from back in the day. Demons 2 is twice as ludicrous 😂
Well this is a classic horror film…. It’s not a bad film at all… it’s well produced and directed. It’s loaded with crazy stuff for sure…it’s a real,treat…glad you watched it.
The movie is over the top and has some amazing gore to it. It's a legit good movie. Not sure if it is in the "so bad it is good" type of film. It's a good film that goes overboard at the end. A good flick for sure.
Now.....if you want a Lamberto Bava film that is more bad but still kinda good, look up Monster Shark. It's a monster film that is basically an 80's version of Sharktopus. Although this thing looks like Dunkleosteus with octopus arms. And apparently it has a dolphin brain to make it smart.
In the movie one of the actors says "imagine a creature that is half shark, half octopus, and half dolphin.".........that is 3 halves there doc!!!
Sounds like our kinda movie.
😊 A simple trick Erin could use to better understand how to rate SBIG movies is to just think: Approve or Disapprove. I think her taking the Good/Bad aspect of SBIG too literal is what trips her up. Just a thought.
Don't ruin this for us!
Erin's process of getting an answer at the end of these videos are glorious 😂
But part of the fun is her struggle to understand how to rate the movies.
Saw this four or five times, the couple weeks it played in a theater where I lived, way back when. An eternal fave.
Grappling hooks are very useful.. for example.. what if you are one night mistaken for a homeless man and nearly set on fire and another homeless guy saves you, and it later turns out he has demonic knights chasing him and he wants you to steal the Holy Grail from a tower? What are you gonna do with no grappling hook?
🤣
From what I was able to see, this looked crazy. Crazy awesome.
it's wild.
Great review!!! Love Demons. You definitely have to do Demons 2.
Wil do!
This film is great. I saw it first time 1987 and must have watched it over 40 times since. It's batshit crazy insanity.
Whats the name of the movie?
Over 40 times? Whoa.
Demons.@@Crotch_Goblin1
@@JasonBrant I'm a huge fan horror and have done extensive research into the genre. Probably seen about 5,000 horror films over the years. I worked as a night security guard for 2 years where i watched parking lot for 12 hours night 5 nights week so watched lot films doing that lol. The masked man who gave out the tickets directed Cemetery Man. This is top tier Italian 80s horror. Along with Zombi2 aka Zombie aka Zombie Fleash Eaters and Cannibal Holocaust (check out the Grindhouse Releasing version where all the animal stuff is edited out).
@@Crotch_Goblin1Are you effin serious?
Every time Jason breaks the fourth wall, he cracks me up!
Watching this triggered a memory for me. I've seen this movie as a child. I miss 80s/early 90s late night TV.
"Everything you show has purpose later on..." - Chekov's gun
Dario Argento is a legend. He had some bad lows admittedly, but his movies are generally good. He always refused to use modern special effects in favour of practicles realized by artists he knew which made some of his movie even creepier (while some others that were SBIG as a baseline looked even more comical). Deep Red (not sure that's the English title, I just translated literally) is unironically a great movie. If you watch that, it's hard to believe is the same director.
PS Yes, it was filmed in Germany because at the time most European movies which aimed at foreign markets were co-produced with Germans. The Spaghetti Westerns were also all co-produced with German studios.
PPS I'm not usre about it, but one of the guys in the car looked like Dario Argento, so I suspect those scenes were just there to give screen time to a relative.
I remember finding this on Shudder and put it on during my workout. I stopped exercising to watch the whole thing 😂
Good choice.
Dario Argento is a legend . Worked with Bernardo Bertolucci and Sergio Leone (writer for the Once upon a Time in the West) and George Romero (producer, script consultant and soundtrack composer for the Dawn of the Dead). As a director he is responsible for The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, Suspiria and so on.
Demons is the unofficial Resident Evil prequel and I will die on this hill.
Aww I liked the first thumbnail, why’d it change? Anyway.. this one gets the stamp for sure, I’ve watched this a couple times before and when I saw the thumbnail I got excited 😂. Jason’s “oh it’s an Italian movie, somebody’s losing an eye” lols! I just can’t believe you didn’t make a point to show the dirt bike samurai in the theater lobby at the beginning, seems like something you would have included 😂. This one was fun
There's actually a Dario Argento museum, aptly named "Profondo Rosso" in Rome. At least at one point it was advertised as a museum, now it looks more like a storefront! 🔥👾🗡
Growing up why did I always think it was 🎶“Maca-roni! Maca-roni!…”🎶 lmao
Might be your best work yet. Great reactions. Had me rolling
Thanks so much!
Always look forward to Thursday's & Sunday's. By the way the music Erin is singing along to in the opening I think is Grieg and the theme song for the famous UK theme park, Alton Towers.
Ahh, thanks for the info.
Discovering your channel was the best thing to happen to me since I got divorced!😅
😂 wow.
You know why Eighties music kicks ass? It's that "cha-cha-cha-cha" drum machine handclaps sound, that's why.
My 2nd grade teacher had never heard of Nostradamus either. She pronounced it "Nod-STRAH-damuss" when she was reading us a Beverly Cleary novel where one of the characters had a pet/familiar cat named Nostradamus. Er.....just thought i'd share.
Directed by the son of Mario Bava and produced by Dario Argento. This film was an attempt by Italian filmmakers to make a more mainstream horror film. Most Italian horror films from this time were really only popular among horror fans. Stuff like Cannibal Holocaust, Cannibal Apocalypse, Cannibal Ferox aka Make Them Die Slowly, Zombie and countless others. Graphic violence, nudity and questionable subject matter. Demons is one of the more entertaining Italian films.
This is actually one of my favourite horror films ever! The 2nd one is definitely a must-watch as well.
I love that you did “Demons” , one of my favorite Argento movies !
A Lucio Fulci one like “Zombi ll” would be awesome !
"Razortitty" Sounds like a movie that would be on SBIG, lol
"We watched this." Truer words have never been spoken!
This was great fun to watch!
I loved the Demons movies when i was a young lad, yes i was way too young when i watched Demons and its sequel. They are cheesy and illogical but they were also quite scary back in the day. Cool soundtrack, special effects, 80’s style and overall just fun movies to watch with friends.
Frickin' great mov! Saw it on vhs.
When you see italian guy named Urbano Barberini playing american reluctant hero who slashes demons in a movie theater with picked-up katana while riding a bike with a beautiful chick sitting behind, you know that this is the essence of awesomeness 😂
God, i love those 80s italian exploitation movies.
The Brian zoom ins never get old XD
I got the DVD signed by the make-fx guy Sergio Stivaletti. Visited the filming locations in Berlin last summer.
"Every Italian film I've ever seen is ridiculous." CO-SIGN!
best add for zbiotics a clip of Dave saying we will be sitting and drinking for 12 hours
Saw this for the first time last night randomly and it wasn’t too bad!
Demons rock! We used to rent the heck out of our copies of the tape back in the day.
After watching this for years on vhs, I finally got to see it at the pictures. It was worth the wait. Check out the sequel, which is slightly more bonkers (and has The Smiths on the ST 😂)
I knew a kid in jr high that swore by this movie but I couldn't find it in any video story in my neighborhood. Out of nowhere clips and discussion videos of it started showing up on youtube 30 years later and I finally discovered what I had been missing.
You guys need to watch Lucio Fulci’s “Zombie” (1979). Arguably not as batsh1t as “Demons” but amazing gore effects and a zombie fights a real shark.
Fun Fact: I was curious and found a site selling grapple hooks specifically for helicopters. The company is called Lift-It and they sell various rigging for helicopters like cargo nets and rescue equipment. Sadly, I didn't see any grapple guns.
I really think we should have Erin in a solo video explaining why she felt a movie was or wasn't SBIG, because I already love her just trying to understand herself when deciding, so I'm sure giving her more time to probably confuse herself more would be better than the movies itself.
"What's that called where everything you show has a purpose later on?" Some say foreshadowing others may say Chekovs gun.
I think the most unrealistic part of this movie was them doing Coke in the 80s. I love this movie and I hope you guys cover the sequel.
The thing Brian is asking for is called Chekov's Gun. It's this idea that you do not devote resources to showing or saying something if it's not going to be used in the narrative. The example from which it gets its name is a gun hanging over a mantle. You do not draw attention to that gun if it is not going to serve some kind of purpose in the story either played straight, a red herring, or some other kind of subversion.
“Rick James is comin’ for ya” 😂
This movie is great and fun in all the "right" ways. Very glad to see this one.
I really dug it.
Dario Argento was an actual director with talent and a legacy of great to mediocre Gallo horror films. With varying degrees of quality what all his films have in common is a batshit insane sensibility! He made the original Suspiria.
I agree with you, though Argento didn't direct this.
He was the producer and one of the writers.
when i was a kid in the 80's in Italy Dario Argento's movies were always in my nightmares
Erin's summary was like a Jeff Goldblum interview haha
I watched this the other day, and it turns out my wife just surprised me with tickets to see Goblin tonight doing a live score to Demons! Claudio Simonetti of Goblin fame did the soundtrack for this, probably since it is Dario Argento produced, and Goblin's history with his movies.
The first Italian horror film I ever saw. I’ll always have a huge soft spot for it.
I love that you guys watched this! It's absolutely bonkers in the best way. I also recommend Joe Bob's commentary on this flick.
4:49 'NOSTRADAMUS...Yeah, Top of the Pops in 1500'. Nostradamus was AMERIGO VESPUCCI, sports fans: YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST!
17:27 Someone is showing off their 'Thriller' video vocabulary...
18:58 Erin's T: 'Are YOU...a GOD?' 😁😅🤣😂Classic.
This tuneage really should have been included in their soundtrack line-up:
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23:28 Brian: 'The R.O.T.O.R....!' You missed a golden moment in the editing suite, Brant. :D
The guy who survived didn't get scratched, he was cut by a blade the punk demon was holding.
Yup. A meat hook.
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All I heard was an Ace Ventura impression 😂. Spot on
“De-monaytized” 😂
Im so buzzing you did this film id love to see you guys give stage freight a look
I love how the little blond kid with the gun at the end is named Kurt.
“Darkness, what did the 5 fingers say to the face!? Give up? Let me show ya! SLAP!!!” *SLAP* 👋🏾🤦🏾♂️👋🏾 “Hahahah bitch! Unityyyyyy!” 🤣
Really cool movie this week! I hadn't heard of this one, but will definitely be adding it to my Halloween list.
Definitely worth a watch!