10 Outrageous Films That Must Be Seen To Be Believed
7. Demons
Described by Kim Newman as “a triumph of illogicality run riot”, Demons is your typical story of a late-night screening that descends into anarchy when a member of the audience starts growing claws and fangs and dribbling pea soup – just like a character in the movie being shown.
She attacks her fellow audience members, who subsequently start displaying similar symptoms and it’s not long before a handful of survivors find themselves battling demons with glowing eyes. Fortunately for them, the group includes Tony The Pimp, a jive talkin’ action hero who seems to have wandered in from a Blaxploitation movie.
He’s a dab hand at stating the obvious, too. “She became a Demon,” he says at one point. “An instrument of evil like they said in the damn movie!” Thank goodness there’s a motorcycle and a ninja sword in the lobby, which allows our heroes to drive through the aisles (accompanied by a pounding rock score) cutting down their opponents. Then a helicopter crashes through the roof, allowing them to escape.
What’s illogical about that?