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Night of the Demon (1983)
Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 1980
Running Times: 95m (UK)/97m (USA)
Length:
Format:
Colour Format: filmed in Metrocolor
Ratio:
Sound:
DIRECTION
Directed by: James C. Wasson
CREW
PRODUCTION
Copyright: not shown on screen. The earliest record on the US Copyright
Office database is for 10 October 1983 in the names of Alden Company,
Inc. and V C II, Inc.
Production Companies: Amity Entertainment. Jim L. Ball presents an Aldan
Company production (opening credits) A Jim L. Ball production for The
Aldan Company Incorporated Hollywood, California
Produced by: Jim L. Ball
SCRIPT
Screenplay: Mike Williams
From a Story by: Jim L. Ball
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: John Quick
2nd Unit Crew Assistant Cameraman: David Essex
Grips: Craig Agins, Craig Johnson, Mitch Howard
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Joy Rencher's Editorial Services
MUSIC
Music Composed/Performed: Stuart Hardy
SOUND
Sound by: Fred Ginsburg
2nd Unit Crew Sound Recordist: Ana Krupa
COSTUMES AND MAKE-UP
Make-up: Curry Bushnell
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Susan Brott
TITLES AND OPTICALS
Opticals by M-G-M
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: David Gooch
CAST
Michael J. Cutt
Joy Allen
Bob Collins
Jodi Lazarus
Richard Fields
Michael Lang
and
Melanie Graham as Wanda
Shannon Cooper
Paul Kelleher
Ray Jarris
William F. Nugent
Lynn Eastman as Susan Nugent
Dix Turner, Bunny Bernhardt, Fred Owens, Heather
Eide, Virginia English, Mark Olay (the townspeople)
Eugene Dow (Dr Paxton)
Don Hurst (Dr Hanla)
Terry Wilson (Inspector Block)
Kathy Stilmac (?) (girl scout jr)
Renata Lee (girl scout sr)
Philip Boyd (hunter)
Mark Phalan (woodsman)
Sally Swift (van lover)
Greg Langdon (van lover)
Rob Camp (motorcyclist)
Shane Dixon (monster (2nd unit))
PLOT SUMMARY
A college professor leads a group of his students
on an expedition into the woods in search of the legendary Bigfoot.
Inevitably, very few of them are destined to come back alive after the
interrupt a black magic ceremony and then encounter the beast itself.
CAPSULE REVIEW
The funniest of the "video nasties" by
a long stretch and quite probably one of the worst films ever made.
Inept gore scenes pepper a plot so badly constructed that it features
flashbacks-within-flashbacks to bewildering effect. The monster is exactly
what we always knew it was going to be - a man in a tatty bigfoot suit.
Truly appalling. (Full
Review)
AVAILABILITY
UK
Video Distributor: Iver Film Services; Vipco (VIP 049)
USA
Video Distributors: Lettuce Video; VCI Home Video
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
Germany
Rating: banned
Norway
Rating: banned
UK
Rating: unrated; banned
USA
Rating: R
TIMELINE
2007
March
2: UK - television broadcast (on Zone Horror)
REFERENCES
PERIODICALS
The Dark Side May 1992 p.26 (UK)
review
In the Flesh 11 p.7 (UK)
review
Sight and Sound vol.3 no.12 (December 1993)
p.63 (USA)
video review (by Peter Dean)
OTHER SOURCES
screen
credits
KEYWORDS
video nasties, pitchforks, mountains, pregnancy,
rape, motorcycle gangs, sasquatch, bigfoot, forests, students, urban
legends, gore, castration, girl scouts, axe murders, disembowelling,
cabins, hospitals, hypnosis, impalement, motorcycles, mutilation, nightmares,
professors, sects, camping
Last Updated:
1 February, 2009
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