I have updated the gallery with screencaps from the 30 Days of Night: Dark Days and Night of the Demons trailers. Check out the new, kick ass Night of the Demons trailer at Bloody Disgusting. A few words from Diora regarding the trailer:

Due to some of your comments, let me make this clear. In the trailer for, well, lets just call it ‘Film by idiot f*ck heads’……

…I am NOT naked. That is NOT me. Nor do I get naked in the movie. What you see is just a prosthetic piece. In the movie, that is obvious.

And there you have it!

Speaking of the movie, Night of the Demons New York premiere screening will take place Friday, October 15, 2010 at 11:30pm @ Cinema Village, New York.

No special features have been announced yet, however, we’ve heard rumblings that you can expect on-set interviews and footage. Furthermore, for those in L.A., there may be a special event screening so you can check it out in the theater.

A redo of Kevin Tenney’s ’80s cult classic, Gierasch’s film stars Diora Baird, Shannon Elizabeth, Monica Keena, Edward Furlong, Bobbi Sue Luther, John F. Beach, Michael Copon and Tiffany Shepis.

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Cinematographer Yaron Levy just updated his official site with a horror reel that shows off tons of footage from the forthcoming remake. You can dig on it below.

Night of the Demons stars Diora Baird, Shannon Elizabeth, Monica Keena, Bobbi Sue Luther, Jonathan Beach, Michael Copon, Tiffany Shepis, and Edward Furlong. Look for it in theatres on September 23rd.

Synopsis:

Angela Feld is throwing the Halloween party to end all Halloween parties at the infamous Broussard Mansion in New Orleans, where dark events transpired almost a century ago. But when the packed party gets busted by the police, Angela and her friends Maddie, Lily, Suzanne, Colin, Dex, and Jason are the only ones left behind. Soon Colin and Angela make a grisly discovery in the basement, and inexplicable events start to take place. With the mansion gates mysteriously locked, the seven find themselves trapped for the night … and soon they’re fighting ancient demons for their very souls.

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The film was poised to receive a theatrical release last October via Seven Arts Distribution.

Night of the Demons, scripted by Gierasch and Jace Anderson (La Terza Madre, Toolbox Murders), is based on the classic 80′s flick by Kevin Tenney (Witchboard), which birthed the demon villain Angela. She would go on to terrorize audiences through two sequels.

Gierasch hopes audiences will embrace the remake’s rambunctious attitude.

“I love it,” he said in an interview with Dread Central. “It’s got punk-rock and big-breasted chicks being chased by demons — what more do you want? It’s everything that makes life worth living. I think it’s just super fun.

“The soundtrack is awesome, and it’s all the way through the whole movie, too. We did fight scenes to punk-rock songs, demon attacks to punk-rock songs — I describe it as ‘party horror’.”

Synopsis: Angela Feld is throwing the Halloween party to end all Halloween parties at the infamous Broussard Mansion in New Orleans, where dark events transpired almost a century ago. But when the packed party gets busted by the police, Angela and her friends Maddie, Lily, Suzanne, Colin, Dex and Jason are the only ones left behind. Soon Colin and Angela make a grisly discovery in the basement and inexplicable events start to take place. With the mansion gates mysteriously locked, the seven find themselves trapped for the night … and soon they’re fighting ancient demons for their very souls.

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The dark history only serves to enhance the Broussard Mansions appeal on Halloween. At the decadent, out-of-control party, Maddie and Lily run into their exes, Colin and Dex, while Suzanne parties it up. Good times end, however, when the police bust up the party. After the rest of the guests leave, Angela, Maddie, Lily, Dex, Colin, Suzanne and their friend Jason discover a horrible secret. Their cell phones dont work. The mansion gates are now mysteriously locked. Soon it becomes clear that supernatural forces are at work at the Broussard Mansion, and that there may be more to the tale of Evangeline Broussard than anyone knew.

It turns out that the Broussard Mansion is home to demons that need to possess seven vessels to break free of an ancient curse. One by one the guests fall victim, transforming into hideous creatures. Only Maddie, Colin and Jason remain but can they make itthrough the night and keep evil forces from spreading into the world?

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Despite the frothing-at-the-mouth hatred for all things remake amongst genre fans, we must admit that there are good, bad and even the inoffensively mediocre. Forexample Rob Zombie’s atrocious Halloween (and, from what I hear, Halloween II as well) versus the likes of The Last House on the Left (nowhere near as sacrilegious as expected – in fact, it improved on the original in a number of ways). Now, Adam Gierasch is the latest director to join the remake stables with his sophomore effort Night of the Demons, based on the original 1988 Kevin Tenney flick.

We again follow a group of party-going friends facing a night on the chopping block as they attempt to defend themselves against an onslaught of body-possessing demons. Said friends are comprised here of Maddie (Monica Keena), Suzanne (Bobbi Sue Luther), the slutty Lily (Diora Baird), Jason (John F. Beach) and Dex (Michael Copon). They are all invited to the infamous Broussard Mansion (changed here from the Hull House of the original) by their friend Angela (Shannon Elizabeth), but things don’t go according to plan as the party is stopped by the police. It seems Angela didn’t purchase the necessary permit, so they’re being shut down.

With everyone else dispatched from the premises, our core group, along with local drug dealer Colin (Edward Furlong), find themselves left behind with the outside gates locked. Forced to look for another exit, the group discover a secret room in the basement of the building housing six skeletal corpses – the missing people that form part of the legend of the Broussard Mansion. Upon attempting to remove a gold tooth from one of them, Angela gets bitten and soon enough is transformed into a snarling demon. It seems that these entities need to possess seven bodies before daybreak – if they succeed, they are made permanent flesh and can spread their wicked influence across the world. All it takes to possess an individual is to either kill them or bite them.

Right from the credit sequence, you can tell that Gierasch’s intention here is a rock ‘n roll horror flick that doesn’t take itself in any way seriously, and in some ways he has succeeded. The director himself proclaimed that he wanted to make the movie he would have wanted to see as a teenager – big-breasted women running away from gore-throwing demons; and that, friends, is pretty much what we have here. Almost every character is one-dimensional, but the ample charms of Monica Keena and the deliciously well-endowed Bobbi Sue Luther, to name only two, go a long way to alleviating any focus on unnecessary elements such as character development. It’s an exercise in immaturity, but taken on that level it works. The cast are all in on it, flaunting their *ahem* physical talents as far as possible, and the script also occasionally pokes fun at how ridiculous it all is (for example a brief discussion as to why the demons have an aversion to rust). Even the increasingly bug-eyed Edward Furlong puts in more effort than he has done in his recent career instead of sleep-walking his way to a paycheck yet again.

Once the demonic action starts, Night of the Demons rarely slows down with Gierasch keeping a close eye on pacing; however, the later stages do start to get a little grating as the characters find a “safe room” and keep yo-yoing back and forth to it. The soundtrack is great, featuring tons of extremely loud punk rock and inspired use of Type O Negative’s “Black No. 1″ during Angela’s first big monstrous reveal.

Ample gore and slime can be found all over the place, bolstered by some effective jump scares, but the demons themselves get progressively disappointing as the ending approaches. The first couple of transformations are great (including possession via anal sex and a crowd-pleasing face-and-tit rip), but the final couple of demons look like not much more than rubber Halloween masks with a little bit more articulation than one from a bog-standard costume store. When the monsters are the focus of your movie, it isn’t a particularly good idea to stop making them noticeably unique and detailed beyond the first few. Fans of the original will be happy to know that Gierasch does keep the “lipstick in the breast” gag from the original – in fact, he ramps it up into further levels of sickness.

The locations and sets look fabulous, making this a strong contender for your Halloween party movie pile. Gierasch also throws in a few nice directorial touches such as presenting flashbacks as a sepia-toned silent movie. It’s nowhere near the technical magnificence of fellow Halloweener Trick ‘r Treat but a noticeable increase in confidence beyond his debut, Autopsy.

So there you have it. This isn’t a smart movie by any means – it’s a modern throwback to a simpler era of horror where boobs and blood were the main attraction. It’s brash, loud and sexy, but a few too obvious flaws unfortunately knock the film down a peg. In the end it’s still a fun ride and certainly worth a watch on an evening when you’d rather disengage the brain and sink a few drinks than deal with anything more cerebral.

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Night of the Demons was directed by Adam Gierasch, and produced by Seven Arts Pictures, from a script written by Adam Gierasch and Jace Anderson. Night of the Demons is a remake of the cult classic ’80s film.

Night of the Demons stars Monica Keena (Entourage, Freddy vs. Jason, Ripe), Diora Baird (My Best Friend’s Girl, Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, Wedding Crashers), Edward Furlong (American History X, Pecker, Terminator 2) and Shannon Elizabeth (Thir13en Ghosts, Scary Movie, American Pie). Greg McKay and Michael Arata produced the film.

FILM4 FRIGHTFEST is the UK’s premiere fantasy and horror film festival. Now in its tenth year, each August thousands of horror fans gather in the heart of London’s West End at the legendary Empire Cinema for five days of premieres, previews, personal appearances, signings, and events.

Peter Hoffman, CEO of Seven Arts, commented, “We’re delighted with audience reaction to Night of the Demons and we’re hoping that this will be the beginning of a meaningful relationship between Seven Arts and FILM4 FRIGHTFEST. FILM4 FRIGHTFEST attracts hard core horror fans, who are very sophisticated as well as active on the internet, and their word of mouth reviews and blogs are an important component to financial success.”

Alan Jones, founder and director of FILM4 FRIGHTFEST, stated, Night of the Demons event went exceptionally well. The audience really liked it as all the posts on the forum attest. Literally everyone has said it was a pleasant surprise and great fun to watch with terrific shocks. So I feel we made a great choice. Having the director, Adam Gierasch and co-writer Jace Anderson, as well as cast members Bobbi Sue, John and Joe in attendance added enormously to the special feel of the world premiere. Movies like Night of the Demons are what FrightFest is all about and yet again Seven Arts Pictures supplied us with another highlight. The FrightFest team is humbled by your continuing support and long may our relationship prosper.”

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