31 Horror Films To Watch This October

16. Night Of The Demon (1980)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFmWRXfOC9Y

Once again, a dim-witted academic leads some students on a Sasquatch hunt in swamp country, which you have to consider the logic of, seeing as nobody brings along so much as a camera.

Anyway, this movie’s Bigfoot is one stealthy beast, capable of sneaking up on an unsuspecting lumberjack and divesting him of his axe before splitting his cranium in two. Clearly circus trained, he’s also able to make two knife-wielding girl scouts stab each other repeatedly while banging their heads together. You never saw that in Harry And The Hendersons.

He is the romantic sort, though, which the students realize when a local girl describes her midnight encounter with our horny beast that lead to the birth of Bigfoot Jnr. This sets up a present-day reunion of sorts when junior knocks down the door and begins dismissing the class one by one, ripping out intestines, burning faces, tearing out throats and impaling bodies on pitchforks – while nobody attempts to escape. 

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Ian Watson is the author of 'Midnight Movie Madness', a 600+ page guide to "bad" movies from 'Reefer Madness' to 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.'