20 Cult Horror Movies You Must See Before You Die

18. Night Of The Demons (1988)

Cult Horror Movies
Republic Pictures

On the night of Halloween, 10 teens decide to go to a party at an abandoned funeral parlor. First mistake, that.

"Hull House", rumored to be built on an evil patch of land and underground stream, is the place. Why wouldn't you go there? While starting the party, the teens gather around a big mirror to perform a seance (which is obviously another huge mistake). They subsequently awaken an evil force and find themselves trapped and taken over one by one.

They deserve it.

Night Of The Demons is probably most known for its scary demon faced poster art which by image alone seemed to do the trick. That face which stared out scaring shelf shoppers year after year was able to entice genre fans like none other.

This movie was indeed one of those staples for rental in the early '90s (particularly for sleepovers). Despite being a little hokey, silly, and, by today’s PC standards, could be considered completely racist, sexist, misogynistic, etc (by uptight people) – it is actually pretty damn awesome. It was made at a time when monsters were created with makeup, matte paintings were used as backdrops instead of CGI, the “slut” characters (in this case, scream queen Linnea Quigley) were abundant and gratuitous, and what may be thought of now as bad writing or acting, were all just endearing qualities of horror films. 

 
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