Monday, October 20, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The Frida Cinema, Santa Ana
They will make cemeteries their cathedrals and the cities will be your tombs. We’re running a double feature of Lamberto Bava’s Demons & Demons 2! First up: welcome to the most life-enriching Italian terror-party of 1985. Produced by Dario and directed by Lamberto Bava, Demons follows a panorama of punks, preppies, and ne’er-do-wells as they get trapped in a movie theater and possessed by gut-shredding Satanic demonoids. Featuring songs by Mötley Crüe and Billy Idol, gloopy effects, and the iconic Geretta Geretta in a lead role, this is the most fun you’ll ever have in a movie theater while watching a movie about beasties on the loose in a movie theater. And then: Demons 2 takes place in a high-rise apartment building full of families, fitness buffs, and party animals that watch a movie-within-a-movie on TV that’s also a sequel to Demons (???). But before long, the evil escapes and turns the real world into a living hell. Demons 2 is a joyful, meta-enhanced goreblast that mutilates logic and delivers exactly what we want: outrageous goop, a rad post-punk soundtrack, and a demon dog with a demon puppet living inside of it. To quote the movie’s original tagline: “Let’s party!”