Rating: ***
This sequel to the awful original NIGHT OF THE CREEPS is pretty darn cool and fits into the perfect category in terms of bad horror movies: the zero-brain-power category. Man, this movie really requires no thinking on your part at all, I mean, most don't, but this one sets new standards.
The plot is as follows: extremely horny men and women at a Catholic school for "troubled" children decide to throw a Halloween bash at the Hull House (sounding remarkably familiar to that other famous haunted house, the Hill House). The Hull House was the place where the incidents in the first film took place, leaving many students dead. Except one named Angela whose body was never found. Now, Angela turns out to be the sister of one of the students at the school, a shy little orphan girl nicknamed Mouse. Mouse constantly dreams of Angela, whose appearance actually is genuinely creepy.
Anyways, the party takes place in the house, but it's not really a party. The students pretty much couple-off and do what people do in various parts of house and that's I guess what they mean by a "party." Of course, these students awake the spirit of Angela and soon the kids start dropping like flies and becoming Demons.
The bright side of this movie is that back at the school, there's one guy who's obsessed with Satanism and stuff and manages to get a tough nun on his side as well as the skeptical chief priest of the school. When the students bring the Demons back to the school, it's time for these three to kick demon-butt. This, they do in various inventive ways, the best involving Super-Soakers filled with Holy Water. The humor of these characters make NIGHT OF THE DEMONS 2 quite enjoyable.
In addition to this, there are other highlights which are great cliched horror stuff. For instance, at the boring high school dance, when the nun leaves, suddenly a new radio is brought out a hard rock begins to get played. Never mind that you can't dance to that stuff and that the party would be better with dance music, hard rock symbolizes rebellion and therefore has to be used. Hilarious. There's also a couple decent effects including a great one in which this one evil woman's breasts grab her boyfriend and kill him (you have to see it to believe it).
All in all, NIGHT OF THE DEMONS 2 is pretty standard stuff, including its overdone end with Angela become some big lizard thing. But, its rife with cliches, nudity, violence, and all the stuff which makes us love bad horror movies. And its touches of humor just make these cliches all the more fun. The formula is perfect for an entertaining horror film: a horror movie which knows it's breaking no new ground at all and has a lot of fun not doing so. *** (out of four)