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Night Of The Demons 2 (1994)

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dead end drive-in (1986) by brian trenchard-smith cinematography by paul murphy production design by laurence eastwood art direction by nicholas mccallum

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Night of the Demons 2 and Night of the Demons 3 will be released on Blu-ray on October 3 via Scream Factory. The original Night of the Demons will also be available on 4K Ultra HD the same day.

1994's Night of the Demons 2 is directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith (Leprechaun 3, Leprechaun 4: In Space) and written by Joe Augustyn (Night of the Demons). Amelia Kinkade, Merle Kennedy, Cristi Harris, Rick Peters, Jennifer Rhodes, and Christine Taylor star.

1997's Night of the Demons 3 is directed by Jim Kaufman and written by original Night of the Demons director Kevin Tenney. Amelia Kinkade, Larry Day, Kristen Holden-Ried, Tara Slone, Gregory Calpakis, Patricia Rodriguez, and Stephanie Bauder star.

Special features for both titles are in progress and will be announced at a later date.

It's Halloween and the teenagers from St. Rita's High School want to party at the neighborhood's haunted house. For years, the Hull House has sat in eerie silence – tales of its haunted past have turned into gory jokes and no one really believes anything ever happened there. However, Angela (Amelia Kinkade), the hostess from hell, is summoning her army of teen demons to the blood-curdling contest between the school's priests and herself, the princess of darkness.

Pre-order Night of the Demons 2.

It's Halloween! The gates of Hull House have creaked open once again and Angela (Amelia Kinkade) is waiting for her treats. When a group of rambunctious teens take refuge in the foreboding funeral home to escape the law, they soon realize their grave error.

Pre-order Night of the Demons 3.

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Leprechaun 3 (1995) dir. Brian Trenchard-Smith

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Night of the Demons 2 (1994) - Directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith

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Stunt Rock (1978)

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Turkey Shoot (1982, dir. Brian Trenchard-Smith)

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Movie Review | Dead End Drive-In (Trenchard-Smith, 1986)

This undeniably looks amazing, thanks to its 'Scope neon aesthetic, and had it been playing in the background at a party with the sound turned down, I'm sure I would have assumed it was a great movie. Actually watching it, it doesn't help that after setting up its aesthetic, it pretty much spins its wheels and sketches out its milieu in the vaguest terms until we get to the climax. At that point there's some bumper car style action that might do the trick for some of you, but I guess I've seen more than one Mad Max movie too recently that this felt underwhelming in contrast. Anyway, you can see glimpses of a much better action movie in the excerpts of The Man from Hong Kong playing on the drive-in screen during the climax.

Also, I was put off by all the mugging by the supporting characters, but given how much I complain about mugging, I clearly need to a do a Robert Bresson cleanse or something. I'll concede that I wasn't in a great mood when I watched this and might have gelled more to its vibes over story approach at another time, but also, this felt like a ready made cult object in a way I found off putting. I concede that neon lighting and new wave music were very much in at the time, but the way this movie packages them together felt like it was pandering a little too directly to the MTV crowd. This is probably weird coming from somebody who could not shut up about Miami Vice for like half a year.

And maybe I wasn't paying enough attention, but my incredulity matched the hero's when the two of us discovered two thirds of the way into the movie that this had a heretofore unmentioned racial hatred subplot and that his girlfriend was a racist. (I would say respectively, but we're in this together.) I guess it's great that the movie thinks racism is bad, but it might have helped if the movie had done anything earlier to set up this dynamic or had actual POC characters instead of having the bad guys antagonize hapless extras.

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Lee Armstrong as Tammy Larsen in Leprechaun 3 (1995).

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Dead End Drive-In (Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1986) Cover for the Blu-ray by Extralucid Films

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Night of the Demons 2 (Night of the Demons: Angela's Revenge, 1994)

"What's the problem here?"

"Oh, the old sexorcist here thinks I stole his precious little ghoulie book."

"Yeah, so?"

"So what would I want with a book?"

"Good point. Perry, Kurt doesn't have your book. He can barely read a clock."

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Night of the Demons 2 (1994) - Directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith