PLOT: The movie opens in 1925, with scenes of gore and demons. Evangeline Broussard prepares to hang herself from her balcony when she is stopped by a man trying to reassure her that he is truly Louis and that she shouldn’t hang herself. Evangeline calls him a liar, then jumps, hanging herself to death and causing her head to fly off her shoulders. Louis stares over the balcony as his eyes switch to a demonic shade of orange. The film then cuts to modern day, with Angela Feld (Shannon Elizabeth) is preparing for her Halloween party at the Broussard mansion, stating that if the party doesn't go well she’ll be forced out onto the streets.As everyone prepares for the party, Colin (Edward Furlong) approaches the den of the drug lord Nigel. After being threatened, Colin is told that he must sell enough drugs at Angela’s party in order to pay what he owes or die. Colin attempts to enter the party, only to have to bribe his way in. Inside the party Lily (Diora Baird) runs into her ex-boyfriend Dex (Michael Copon), later reuniting in one of the abandoned upstairs bedrooms. Maddie (Monica Keena) notices that Colin is there selling drugs, but decides against approaching him. Suzanne (Bobbi Sue Luther) asks Maddie why she dated Colin, to which Maddie replies that she hoped that she could change him and that he was good in bed. Maddie then enters one of the house’s bathrooms and is attacked by a hand reaching through the mirror. When she attempts to show the broken mirror to one of her friends, the mirror appears to be unbroken.After a while the party is broken up by the local police, stating that Angela neglected to get a party permit and that it doesn't qualify as a private party since she was charging admission. Panicked, Colin stuffs his drugs into a grate to hide it from the police. Everyone initially leaves the party, only to later return to console Angela. Colin begs Angela for the keys to the basement in order to retrieve the drugs, which she reluctantly agrees to. While down in the basement Colin and Angela explore the basement, Angela remarks that the house is full of hidden rooms, including a tunnel that leads to the next state over. The two discover a hidden room, inside which are skeletons, which Angela excitedly shows to the remaining revelers, assuming that the skeletons are the remains of the missing party guests of Evangeline Broussard.Angela discovers a gold tooth in one of the skeletons, but when she tries to examine it closer the skeleton bites her hand. As they all head upstairs, Angela starts to feel woozy and Colin attempts to leave the house, only to discover that the gate is locked and can’t be opened even with the keys to the house. While everyone plans to wait the night out, Suzanne details how Evangeline supposedly practiced black magic in the hopes that she would attract the attentions of Louis, only to have that magic go wrong during a séance. The only person found alive was the maid, who was later found in her room scribbling spells on her walls and having been driven insane by the previous night’s events.Angela slowly succumbs to the skeleton bite, turning into a demon and proceeds to infect Dex during a game of spin the bottle. Feeling sick from the spreading demonic presence, Dex goes into one of the bedrooms with Lily. As they have sex Dex turns demon, savaging Lily in the process and turning her into a demon. Jason, Colin, and Maddie decide to look again for an exit, leaving Suzanne and Angela alone. Angela lures Suzanne into one of the surrounding rooms where she proceeds to dance sexily with her, eventually ripping off her face and turning her into a demon. Upon returning to the mansion Jason comes upon Lily acting strangely, only to then witness her pressing her lipstick into her chest.The three remaining survivors get attacked by the demons, then attempt to leave through the house’s escape tunnel, only to be discover that the tunnel has caved in. They are attacked inside of the tunnel, with Jason getting a severe injury when he defends the group with a rusty saw. The group runs into one of the rooms in the house, discovering that not only are they in the maid’s room but that the symbols remained on the walls under a layer of plaster. They also discover that the demons are attempting to take over seven human hosts in order to be freed upon the earth, having been imprisoned for being too bad for even hell itself. They also discover that the demons tricked Evangeline into hosting the party so they could take over the guests and that the demons can’t take over a dead body, which is why Evangeline hung herself. They also find that the demons don’t like rust, finding that they can use it as a weapon.The demons try to get to the group by psychologically intimidating them as well as bleeding onto the walls of the room in order to melt the spells off. They manage to lure the group out by faking daylight in the windows, where Jason is caught and disemboweled by Angela. Maddie and Colin manage to make it back up to the maid’s room, only to discover that the attached bathroom is not protected by the spell. Colin then falls through the rotten floorboards, breaking his leg in the process. Maddie goes down to help him, only to be attacked by a now demonized Colin. Maddie then returns to the maid’s room, fortifying herself with as many weapons and rusty items as she can. She fights her way to the second story balcony where she jumps off of the balcony, seemingly hanging herself as the sun rises and eliminates all of the demons. When the sun fully rises, Maddie reveals that she has only pretended to hang herself and that the demons merely assumed that she was dead. With the demons gone, Maddie is then able to exit through the gates to her freedom.
REVIEWS: Time Out: A gang of thoroughly objectionable teenagers party Halloween away in a haunted house. Some of them get possessed by evil spirits, and the frequent foulness of language is then replaced by nastiness of a different sort. A girl dances around a room with a bodiless arm clamped to her ankle (severed while a couple copulate in a coffin); a boy gets his eyes squished out by the bimbo who's putting him up; but the best bit is when a somewhat distraught young lady pushes her lipstick inside her left breast. You feel for her.
Washington Post: "Night of the Demons" opened five days after Halloween, which is about par for this underbudgeted film. A convergence of stereotypes (teen-agers and demons) and cliche's (they're all trapped in a haunted house that was the scene of a grisly murder many years before, there's a se'ance, etc.), "Demons" sounds like it was recorded in a bathroom and plays like it was conceived in a vacuum. "There's no telling what we'll dredge up, especially in this old place," says one never-to-get-beyond-teen-age-teen, and he could just as well be speaking for the scriptwriter, Joe Augustyn, and director, Kevin Tenney.The plot brings a bunch of kids to deserted Hull House for a Halloween party. They include squeaky-clean Angela and preppy Jay, greaseball Sal, gothic Angela and her ditsy friend Suzanne, black preacher's son Roger, fat boy Stooge, shy Helen and sexually provocative Max and Frannie. You don't have to be a detective to guess which two will survive, and you don't have to be a callow person to feel none of the others will be missed one bit.The ads say "Jason and Freddy are too scared to come," though Freddy sent some of his one-liners and Jason some of his goremongering techniques (there are two or three decent effects, but they pass quickly). Tenney, whose debut was the disastrous "Witchboard," does little with so little. And Augustyn writes the film's epitaph at the first sign of demonic infestation when he has a character say, "We all experienced the noise, the stink and the chill." Well, the stink, at least.Night of the Demons is rated R and contains nudity and some extreme gore