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The Church
Why this pick
A delirious Italian supernatural siege with the same escalating, enclosed-space panic, elaborate practical grotesquerie, and heavy-metal-nightmare momentum as Demons.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE1985 1h 29m ITA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Movies like
Demons
Horror
CINEHUNCH / THE NEXT FRAME
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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StageFright: Aquarius
Why this pick
Trades the cinema for a locked theatre, but keeps Demons’ vivid Italian genre style, young ensemble under pressure, and gleefully heightened slasher mayhem.
03
Nightmare City
Why this pick
Its infected attackers, frantic outbreaks, and unapologetically lurid action-horror make it a close match for Demons’ contagious chaos and propulsion.
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Cemetery Man
Why this pick
A more surreal and melancholy cousin to Demons, retaining the extravagant Italian gore effects, dark humour, and dreamlike descent into supernatural madness.
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The Beyond
Why this pick
For Demons’ appetite for stylised gore and infernal imagery: this is an even more feverish Italian nightmare, driven by atmosphere rather than tidy explanations.
Finding the atmosphere, tension and little details that made this one stay with you.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
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.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Urbano Barberini
George
Michele Soavi
Man in Black / Jerry
Nicoletta Elmi
Ingrid