NOTE: This review was written prior to the release (or knowledge, for that matter) of the Scream Factory Night of the Demons Trilogy Blu-Ray set. How I sourced this low-quality/VHS-grade version of the movie is explained in the article itself. Enjoy and welcome to October!

It’s that time of year again, my Enemaniacs… It’s spooky times in the spooky month of October!

Welcome to this week’s B-Movie Enema review. October is a VERY special month around these parts. October 3, 2014 saw the very first B-Movie Enema review. Things have come a loooong way since. After knocking out just a handful of articles, I took a break, and returned in March of 2016 with a renewed interest and zest. That would begin a string of 94 more reviews before taking another, shorter break. Then, I returned, as planned after that short podcast birthing break, with even more renewed vigor.

Since returning with that 101st review in March of 2018, I’ve not stopped. I even started hosting movies on YouTube, Vimeo, and OtherWorlds TV. That brings us right back to October and all the goodness, and specialness, that it brings. As is the tradition at B-Movie Enema, I will be featuring a horror film every Friday. On top of that, as per the usual celebrations, I will also be releasing an additional, special Halloween review. That review will also mark 400 reviews at B-Movie Enema. It’s gonna be a good time.

So, for this month, as I made my selections for what I’ll cover, I decided to revisit some old friends in the lead-up to that #400 review. These are all franchises I’ve visited before. It’s also likely I will not be revisiting these franchises again for some time for various reasons. A couple of the franchises just don’t have anything left for me to be arsed with. One franchise is one that I’m not a huge fan of and can’t keep up with all the movies that come along in that franchise every couple of years. And, as is the case with the franchise we’ll be visiting today, one is simply at the end of the road.

So, we start with that end of the road as I look at Night of the Demons 3.

What a long, strange trip it’s been for this franchise – and my history with the series. If you go back to October 2018, I covered the first film in the franchise from 1988 and immediately followed that with the 2009 remake. That original film is one of my very favorite movies to watch around Halloween. That goes back to me falling in love with the movie and renting it several times from the video store as a kid. It had that feeling of being a little film that could. I think it’s safe to say there was no intention for it to become a franchise, but here we are. The 1994 sequel, reviewed here in October 2022, simultaneously feels and doesn’t feel like a true sequel to the original. It comes off as Republic Pictures, the video distributor, wanted a marketable horror movie to have on the shelves at video stores. Night of the Demons was popular, so why not go for that and toss some dollars at the property and a possible sequel? However, at the same time, it does feel like a true sequel. There’s enough there to not feel like a spec script like so many of the Hellraiser movies.

Here’s where things take an interesting turn. Night of the Demons 3 might be the most true sequel of the two movies that followed the original. That’s because Kevin S. Tenney, the original film’s director, is credited as the screenwriter for this final installment. He’s not the director. He didn’t write either of the first two installments. He just returned to pen the script for this third, and final, installment. I guarantee this will not leave any doubt in my mind that this was truly written from the start to be a Night of the Demons sequel.

In addition to Tenney’s return, we can’t have a Night of the Demons flick without our demonic Angela Franklin returning. Yup, Amelia Kinkade reprises the role of Angela for the third and final time. Kinkade really did make a career out of Night of the Demons. Whereas Tenney made other movies and is still making movies today, Kinkade found her icon status at the very end of her acting career. She was mostly a dancer by trade. Most of her credits before Night of the Demons were for very small parts on TV or in music videos that needed a dancer (because she was a talented dancer with a heck of a body) or a girl with a punk rock look (due to her having a tougher look to her) or as a hooker (probably because she had a tougher look to her and a heck of a body). In 1989, she appeared uncredited as a dancer in Road House. A couple years later, she appeared in a few episodes of The Young and the Restless. Beyond that, her acting career comprised of just this series.

That said, you can’t say she’s not beloved for her performance as Angela in this trilogy. She makes appearances at horror conventions. She draws a crowd. She is certainly memorable in each of these movies. She also typically gets to show off her incredible dancing skills. Even as demon Angela, Kinkade owns the role and seems to really enjoy performing in these films. It’s funny how it turns out that she will forever be best known for her role as Angela in three of her final five credits as an actress.

The movie begins with a police officer arriving at the infamous Hull House. He’s doing typical patrol work. Time has passed since the events of the previous movie in the film. But this officer, Officer Larry, is surprised to hear laughter and what appears to be a light in the house itself. So, as you do, he goes to investigate to make sure no more massacres and whatnot happen here again. He’s surprised to find a room with a lit Jack O’Lantern in it and dripping water from the ceiling. Suddenly, he’s startled by a suddenly appearing Angela.

Officer Larry asks what she’s doing there. Angela says she’s getting ready for Halloween. You know… Angela Franklin things. Officer Larry is taken aback by the inference that she lives there. Hull House belongs to the municipality. She’s not supposed to be there. He says he’s the law and she has to get lost. Angela lets him know around here, she’s the law, and she’s ready to pass sentence on him. She uses the Demon Force to tear his badge off his shirt and have it fly into her hand. She then throws it back like a ninja star and kills Officer Larry.

Bravo, Kevin S. Tenney. Bravo.

Also bravo, Kevin S. Tenney, you maverick of filmmaking because you waste almost no time whatsoever in the movie’s narrative proper with what? Dem tittaes…

The brunette is Abbie. She’s a little more shy (yeah right… she’s tits out with her friend and the audience right there in her room). The blonde is head cheerleader Holly. Abbie is thinking ahead to college. She needs to work on extra-curriculars. Abbie thinks she’s not as noticeable as the cheerleader hottie Holly. Abbie is most definitely a smart girl.

But, for some reason, she only wants to talk about how she’s going to kill it in college and wishes she had her friend Holly’s body. No shit… There is a LOT of focus on these two girls’ assets. This is almost luridly uncomfortable how much this movie wants to show us Abbie’s (Patricia Rodriguez) and Holly’s (Stephanie Bauder) naked chests.

Not that I’m complaining too much honestly.

Anyway, we also have a van full of bad boys, and one sexed-up sexy gal. The guys are Vince the head bad boy, his girlfriend Lois, Reggie, Nick, and Vince’s kind of dorky weakling of a loser sidekick Orson. This is like a van full of Stooges from the first movie. Maybe Nick kind of acts like Sal from that movie too, but these are typical bad boy and horny girlfriend types of people. Nick and Reggie just go back and forth with “yo momma so fat” jokes.

I’m fairly certain, outside of Orson, we’re wishing the rest of the guys in this van get killed. And maybe we’ll see Lois’ boobs.

Anyway, the girls are headed to a party for Halloween. Their car breaks down. The van full of our cannon fodder rolls up to offer some help. Abbie asks if they’re headed to the dance. Reggie says no, but they’ll drop them off on the way. Abbie is instantly wet for Nick, Vince, and Reggie. She convinces Holly to accept the ride because Abbie, dressed as a cat, doesn’t have a coat and Holly, in a harem girl costume, will freeze if they walk to the dance.

Instantly, Nick and the other guys instantly prove taking this ride is a bad idea as they consistently bust Holly’s chops and tease her that because she recognizes Nick, she must have the hots for him. Now, I compare Nick to our good guy Sal from the first movie because I do think beneath his tough exterior, we’re going to see he’s not so bad. When the gang stops at a gas station so Vince can get some smokes, Holly looks to slam a Mountain Dew – you know, as the kids did in the 90s. Nick also looks to do the Dew and he finds the only can remaining in the station’s cooler. But, he has a save-the-cat moment and decides to let Holly have it. He even apologizes for being a jerk.

What a swell guy.

There’s something weird about this movie up to this point. It’s extremely poorly paced. I do wonder if this video file I have for this movie is what people typically see considering this file is 15 minutes longer than what IMDb lists the movie’s runtime to be. So I’m not sure if what I have is actually a director’s cut or if there’s a segment that will repeat later on or what. That said, we spent a lot of time with Abbie and Holly (and their tits) in their introduction scene. We also spent a lot of time with Vince and his crew before they met up with Holly and Abbie. Then, we spent a long time in this gas station getting beers and smokes and what have you.

I’ve already made comparisons to characters from the original movie. Here, we’re kind of doing the same beats as that first movie. One girl has a pain in the neck little brother who barges in while she’s changing into her costume for the party that night. The nogoodniks are cruising through the town and will ultimately meet up with said girl whose brother tried to see her changing clothes. We have a stop-off at a gas station/convenience store on the way to the Halloween shenanigans. It’s Tenney kind of retracing the steps his original movie went through.

Yet… This all feels off. For one, this is clearly a much smaller budget with barely professional actors. There is no Linnea Quigley or Billy Gallo in this group. Amelia Kinkade isn’t even part of this group. There is no big dumb guy like Stooge to laugh at some of the stuff he says. It comes across as a pale imitation. We’re 25 minutes into this movie and we should be at Hull House, yet… we’re not.

I want to go back to something I said. I found this movie, I think, on DailyMotion a year or two ago. This is a movie that I don’t think ever got a DVD release until just recently thanks to Scream Factory releasing the sequels on Blu Ray. Until now, this movie was hard to find. I couldn’t even find it through my usual gray market avenues. When I downloaded the movie from DailyMotion, it came in pieces. I edited the pieces together and came up with a 99-minute cut of Night of the Demons 3. IMDb says this is only 85 minutes. The Scream Factory release says it’s 85 minutes.

Does that mean that I made a mistake in puzzling the pieces I downloaded together and ended up with 15 more minutes? Maybe. However, as I scrubbed through this file, I didn’t find anything that seemed to repeat. Certainly not 15 minutes worth of repetition. Maybe I do find this, but I really do think what I have here is an alternate version of the movie.

That said, let’s just, for shits and giggles, say this is a messed up edit job I did putting the movie back together from the separate parts I downloaded. We’re still 25 minutes into this movie and we’ve not reached Hull House yet (aside from the cold open and then showing Angela hiding the cop car with demon magic). If this scene from the gas station did exist in its entirety in the old cut, this movie is really poorly paced and very slow compared to the first two films in the series. What made Night of the Demons 2 a fairly interesting movie was that we actually had stuff going on at that school campus and the mean girl and Marcia Brady and Angela’s sister. There’s stuff going on there. It didn’t get boring even if it probably did take time to get people to Hull House then too.

Thus far, Night of the Demons 3 is a failure on the part of having a compelling pace.

Something seemingly important does happen here at this gas station. Reggie tries buying beer with his older brother’s ID that he nicked earlier on when his big bro wasn’t paying attention. The attendant flat refuses to sell the beer. Reggie retaliates with a “yo momma is so ugly” joke. When the attendant pulls out the shotgun, Vince leaps into action and snags the shotgun, and turns it on the attendant. A couple cops come in at that point. Vince acts by turning around and holding the shotgun at the cops. The attendant causes Vince to fire the shotgun, presumably to give the cops time to pull their guns and return fire, but it hits one cop causing him to fly through the window of the station, and the other returns fire and plugs Reggie in the gut (because of course the cops shot the black guy). Eventually, everyone is able to get back to the van and escape the scene.

I cannot possibly explain how weird it is that a Night of the Demons movie has an entire ass sequence of this movie dedicated to an action shootout scene at a gas station.

Vince convinces (heh… Vince convinces) the others they have to stick together because he thinks he killed a cop and they will all now be accessories to that crime. Holly thinks they should take Reggie to the hospital and turn themselves in. Vince says, “Fuck Reggie!” Sheesh, what a great pal, huh? As he goes on and on about how they have to stick together, it’s important to note that Orson made off with one of the cops’ guns.

Vince has another great plan… He’s just going to drive until they are a million miles away. However, in the firefight, the van got hit by gunshots and they’re leaking fuel. The only place they can hide is Hull House. So, finally, at 32 minutes and 30 seconds into the movie, the van pulls up to the gates of Hull House.

Abbie freaks out and begs Vince to not go into the property. She’s got some really messed up vibes about the place. She knows about the wall and gate being built on top of an underground stream and if they cross through it, it will make it almost impossible for them to get out. Vince hopes that also keeps the coppers out too. Abbie tells Vince and the others that the place is not haunted. It’s possessed. It’s a gateway to hell and, well, it’s fucking Halloween, so that’s probably really not great that Vince wants to go inside.

When everyone goes in, they are surprised to find that the place looks lived in. It doesn’t look abandoned. It’s well-furnished. Something is not right, but Abbie, Holly, and Nick know they have to get the hell out of there as soon as possible. This doesn’t mean that Vince needs to come with them. They can go and take Reggie to get the help he desperately needs and turn themselves in.

Vince, doing what you might expect from a real Rhodes Scholar that he obviously is, shoots a hole in the ground with the shotgun. That wakes up the demon in the incinerator and it makes reused footage of the flying demon point-of-view shot and demonic Angela floating down hallways of Hull House to happen. Abbie points out that the draft they feel, the bad smell in the air, and the bleeding hole from the shotgun blast all mean they are damned and it’s too late for them now. Angela then appears and makes herself known to the uninvited guests in her home.

Vince leaves Orson in charge to keep an eye on Angela while he, Lois, and Nick look around the place to make sure Angela is the only one at Hull House like she says she is. This is a bad idea. Angela, bored with waiting around for the others to get back, decides to put on some music. You know what that means… she gets to dance. The dance is a way for her to seduce the weak link, Orson. What’s more, Vince decides to fuck Lois too. So he’s distracted. Orson’s distracted. It’s almost like all the wrong people have guns and plans in this place.

That is, except, of course, Angela.

Reggie says that what Angela is doing is giving them a chance to escape while she gives Orson a massive hard-on. Reggie, Abbie, and Holly sneak away. Holly tries to hotwire the van. Abbie wants her to hurry up, but Holly says she refuses to leave without Ni…

Holy shit, Angela is sucking off Orson’s gun and will spit the bullets from the gun out into his hand.

That’s hot. Anyway, what was I saying? Oh yeah, Holly is being a dummy. She, Abbie, and Reggie, who is most definitely bleeding out and dying, can get away. That also means they could get help to save Nick, but Holly won’t leave Nick behind. Inside, after Angela disarmed Orson, she uses a forked tongue to make out with him and force it through Orson’s skull.

Nick tries to get the shotgun from Vince, but he’s not too distracted by his topless Lois to stop Nick from getting it. Lois is played by Tara Slone. Slone is a Canadian actress and singer. She once competed to become the new lead singer of INXS in the mid-2000s. She later went into broadcasting and is now a contributor with the NHL’s San Jose Sharks.

Okay, back to the movie. I had to somehow bring up Tara Slone because she’s basically the character dripping with sex despite how crazy horny Abbie was earlier. Anyway, speaking of Abbie, she tries to go into Hull House to find Holly who went back in after hearing a gunshot hoping to save Nick. Abbie runs into Angela who tells her that Nick ran into the shed. She then tries to convince Abbie to not leave the grounds. Once she does, she’ll just go back to being Holly’s shadow. She says she could help Abbie be the maneater she always wanted to be. Abbie falls for it a little bit and Angela begins making out with her. Abbie tries to rebuke her but Angela says it’s too late. Angela turns into her demon self and attacks and seemingly kills Abbie.

When Angela attacked Abbie, it causes a bright light to fill the sky. Vince sees this and decides, “You know what? I should probably go check that out.” So he and Lois go to investigate despite Lois saying they should just get the hell out of there and forget everyone else. When Vince goes into the shed, he finds the sexed-out Abbie who plans to seduce him. She pretty much instantly succeeds at seducing Vince by just taking the shotgun from him and giving him a blowjob.

I… You know what? That would probably work. Abbie is pretty damn cute even before she got her demon upgrade.

Speaking of demon upgrades, Holly finds Orson’s body on the floor and he’s wearing the devil mask he’s been seen with all movie. His eyes glow as he becomes one of the demons of Hull House and the mask becomes his literal face. He then decides to go after Holly. I’m gonna guess that if Orson tries oral on Holly, that won’t work like Abbie’s play on Vince.

Speaking of Abbie, she’s fucking the shit out of Vince. I’ll give this movie something that the other two didn’t have – it’s got a lot of nudity and a lot of sexual content to it. I guess if there’s anything you can say that keeps this movie vaguely interesting while being poorly paced and kind of all over the place, it’s that the women of this movie are all about as sexy as you can possibly ask for in this movie.

The problem, though, is that the first movie is an all-around 80s classic and the second movie had that demon boobs scene.

Angela’s disembodied voice lures Reggie out of the van. However, demon Orson uses the van to basically finish Reggie off by running him over. I mean, you probably didn’t have to wait much longer. Dude was shot twice in the stomach earlier. He… he was going to die anyway. Oh, fuck it.

Vince had to get sex demon Abbie off him to go figure out what the hell he heard outside with the van and shit. This leaves Abbie alone with Lois and for Abbie to tell her that she fucked her man real good and hard. Lois calls Abbie a slut and slaps her. She wants Abbie to fight back, so she does so… cat-style. She grows claws and slices Lois’ chest. She then turns into a demon and chases after Lois.

Lois finds Angela and tries to get help, but Angela basically reveals that she knows all about Abbie. She then attacks Lois and forces her into the embalming room. There, she’s attacked by snakes. The significance of this? Well, first off, Angela calls her a snake. However, the main thing is that, like Abbie being dressed as a cat, and Orson having that devil mask, Lois has spent a bunch of the movie with a sock puppet of a snake on her hand. So… yeah.

However, I will say it’s actually kind of cool. That sock puppet snake on her right hand turns into an actual snake. So, now, Lois has a literal snake for a hand like she’s a Predacon from Beast Wars. Fuckin’ rad!

If I’m counting properly, after Lois kills herself with her own snake hand, I think this simply leaves Vince, Nick, and Holly remaining. Everyone else is or will be a demon working with Angela. Vince and Nick fight inside Hull House. Outside, Holly is trying to use Officer Larry’s car’s radio to call for help. Officer Larry returns but is, of course, now a demon. He begins chasing Holly. Holly runs through the open gate at Hull House. When Officer Larry hits the property line, the underground stream causes him to fly back and basically explode.

Wait wait wait. Remember in the first movie when Rodger and that other spooked-out chick tried to leave while all the shit was going on inside? They couldn’t find the exit. The demons hid it from them and just made it look like a continuous brick wall. That was even played up when Rodger and final girl Judy had to literally climb over the brick wall as there was literally no gate any longer. On this night nine years later, I guess Angela forgot to close the gate because Holly just straight-up runs right out through it and then walks back in.

Holly and Nick reunite. Holly tries to convince Nick to simply leave. However, this time, Holly doesn’t want to go back in and find everyone despite Nick saying they need to save everyone. They run inside and narrowly avoid demon Reggie’s hand. They run into demon Orson, but they are easily able to get away when Nick kicks him in the demon balls. They find the attic of the house and chill there for a bit.

When I say chill there for a bit, I guess I mean they decide to make out and/or fuck.

This is mostly just a chaste kiss, but it’s very clear that everything that made the first two movies in the series fun and engaging was simply replaced by tits and sex. I do like this scene in the attic as Nick says that he kissed Holly because he’s not sure they can get out of there and he wanted to do that since they first picked her up, but who’s he fooling because she’s too good for a punk like him. It’s a sweet scene that thankfully does get interrupted by demon Orson before it can be a dumb fuck sesh.

Downstairs, the lead detective enters Hull House and cuffs Nick and Holly to take them away. Before they can leave, Vince has found Angela and takes her hostage to negotiate his escape from the cop. The detective tells Vince that the cop he thought he shot and killed back at the gas station was wearing a flak jacket and he’s fine. He hasn’t killed anybody… At least not yet.

Angela worms her way into Vince’s head by trying to convince him that he’s selling a line of bullshit. The moment he lowers his gun, the cop will blow him away. So Vince tosses Angela aside and plans to kill the detective. The detective shoots and kills Vince. Knowing that Angela is a demon too, Nick shoots her in the face with the shotgun and reveals her true face. All the demons start closing in on Nick, Holly, and the detective. Nick just starts shooting them all, but it really doesn’t do anything.

Angela calls off her demons and explains that she can kill them anytime she wants. What she really wants are souls. She can’t get that without word or deed (never mind that I don’t think Lois or Reggie did that, but whatever). The soul she really wants is Holly’s. She’s a pure, virginal soul and that carries a lot of power that Angela would like to possess. If Holly freely gives Angela her soul, she’ll let the detective and Nick go.

Holly appears to agree to give Angela her soul. Angela takes Holly inside and calls for the other demons to return to the bowels of hell because it will be morning soon. The detective tries to come up with a plan. He opts to create a diversion by stabbing Angela with Nick’s switchblade while Nick gets in the cop car and tries to pin Angela against a tree with it. However, the car stalls when he, the detective, and Holly try to escape.

The dawn is nearly here, so they just need to walk to the exit. Angela rips the detective’s heart out while Nick and Holly run for the gate. They nearly get through unscathed until Angela grabs Holly’s hand and try to keep her there at Hull House. The sun rises and Holly pulls Angela through the gate which reduces her to a skeleton which then disintegrates with the morning sun. Holly and Nick leave, but not before Holly promises to keep coming back every Halloween until she dies to make sure no one ever enters the property so it never happens again.

So, anyway, the Night of the Demons series is over. I guess Holly just kind of forgot to come back the following year. Look, this is very clearly the worst of the original trilogy. Hell, I’d even put it after the 2009 remake. This is a very strange and awkward entry. However, I will say that it at least feels like a Night of the Demons film. It mostly takes place at Hull House and does some of the stuff that the original does by having Angela separate each person and seduce and/or kill them to turn them into demons.

Again, I need to point out that IMDb lists this as an 85-minute movie. What I watched was 99 minutes. That certainly indicates to me why there are pacing issues. After watching this from start to finish, I thought about where the issues were with the story. It takes 32 minutes for our cast to arrive at Hull House. That’s waaaaaay too long. The previous movies either got people there faster or had enough going on around the eventual party at Hull House to tie everything together. I think I know where the roughly 15-minute difference is between what I watched and what the movie is officially listed as.

I scrubbed back through the timeline of the movie, particularly the early parts of the movie. Everything from the cold open to meeting the van full of goons to meeting Abbie and Holly took place in the first 15 minutes. You HAD to have the shootout at the gas station because of Reggie’s injury. That was always part of the movie. I suppose you have to have the cold open as that cop returns as one of Angela’s demons. Fine. That means later snippets needed to be done to tighten up later scenes. But the other stuff in between the cold open and the girls being picked up by Vince and his gang was likely not part of an 85-minute cut of this movie – at least in each scene’s entirety. There’s nothing there in the early scenes with Vince’s crew that is absolutely necessary to the plot as a whole. There’s nothing to the early scenes with Abbie and Holly (outside of extra tits) that was necessary to the plot as a whole. That’s the bulk of the time difference. I think what I found online a couple years ago on DailyMotion was, somehow, a director’s cut of the movie.

Either that, or it’s absolutely cursed and now I’m hanging out with Angela and being a demon and shit.

Actually… I would hang out with Angela. She’s hot as fuck. I digress.

I’d like to do my own cut where I take that shit out of the front of the movie and see if that actually makes a difference in how this movie plays out. Ultimately, once the main cast of characters get to Hull House and interact with Angela, this movie ticks up a notch in quality – even though it is rather cheaply made and thinly plotted. When it took so long to get there and we had these (kind of) long dialog scenes followed by the shootout, it felt really wonky and I wasn’t caring much for it at all.

Next week, it’s Friday the 13th, so you know what that means, right? You got it! It’s time to check back in with a series I haven’t covered for quite some time – Texas Chainsaw Massacre! But we’re going Star Trek style with the next review. Join me here in seven days as I look at the bonkers Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation. See you then and watch out for hot dancing demons who want to swallow your soul!