Dèmoni
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English language theatrical film poster by Enzo Sciotti
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| Directed by | Lamberto Bava |
| Produced by | Dario Argento |
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| Story by | Dardano Sacchetti |
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| Music by | Claudio Simonetti |
| Cinematography | Gianlorenzo Battaglia |
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DACFILM Rome
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88 minutes |
| Country | Italy |
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| Budget | $1.8 million |
Demons (Italian: Dèmoni) is a 1985 Italian action-horror film directed by Lamberto Bava and produced by Dario Argento, starring Urbano Barberini and Natasha Hovey. The screenplay was written by Bava, Argento, Franco Ferrini and Dardano Sacchetti, from a story by Sacchetti. Filming took place in Berlin and Rome.
The film was followed up by seven sequels (most of which are in-name only), beginning with Demons 2 in 1986.
On the Berlin subway, university student Cheryl gets off at her stop in the deserted subway station and is pursued by a mysterious, masked man. Rather than attacking her, the man offers her tickets to a free screening at the Metropol, an isolated and recently renovated local cinema. Cheryl talks her friend Kathy into going with her and they skip class to go see the film. At the crowded theater, they meet two preppy college boys, George and Ken, who take an immediate liking to the girls and help them get a can of cola out of the vending machine. The four sit together in the theater.
There are many people from all walks of life in the audience; a blind man and his guide daughter, an elderly married couple, a boyfriend and girlfriend, and a pimp named Tony along with his two prostitutes who look at the theater's display props in the foyer. One of the prostitutes, Rosemary, scratches her face with a bizarre display mask before they go in to watch the film. The film being shown is a violent, disturbing horror film which features a look-alike of the mask from the lobby; it is about four teenagers who discover an old tomb and dig up the grave of a sixteenth-century fortune teller called Nostradamus. When the teenagers dig up Nostradamus's coffin, they find no body and instead an old book and a mask identical to the strange mask in the foyer. When one of the movie's characters puts the mask and is scratched by it just like Rosemary was by its doppelganger, he then turns evil and slaughters his friends with a kitchen knife.
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