Demons - TOTALLY not zombies, though.

Demons - TOTALLY not zombies, though.

From Stinker Madness - The Bad Movie Podcast by Stinker Madness

January 12, 2026 · 1h 36m

About this episode

The episode discusses the chaotic and nonsensical nature of the film 'Demons', highlighting its horror elements and absurd plot.

It shouldn't be possible but we've cracked the code and found the movies villain to be....NEDSTRADAMUS! Demons is the kind of movie that feels less like it was written and more like it escaped from a nightmare after being fed too much cocaine and heavy metal. Set almost entirely inside a movie theater where watching a cursed film literally turns the audience into demons, it’s pure mid-’80s Italian horror excess—loud, bloody, and unapologetically stupid. It’s also the kind of film where logic checks out early, clocks out halfway through, and never returns. To be fair, Demons can be tedious and repetitive. The structure settles into a loop of people getting infected, screaming, transforming, and being hacked apart, over and over again. Characters are thin to nonexistent, dialogue exists mostly to scream exposition, and the film often feels like it’s killing time until the next gore effect or shrieking synth cue. There are stretches where you can practically feel the movie spinning its wheels, daring you to lose patience. But here’s the thing: the story is so profoundly nonsensical that it becomes hypnotic. Plot threads appear and vanish without explanation. Rules are implied and…

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Host: Stinker Madness

Topics covered

  • Italian horror
  • 1980s cinema
  • demon transformation
  • gore effects
  • film critique

Keywords

  • Demons
  • horror
  • Italian film
  • mid-80s
  • gore
  • cursed film
  • audience transformation

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