If you love to see old cult classics in a theater (or you just like the idea of it), then this Italian gore-fest will have a special place in your heart. It’s the best movie theater horror film of all-time. It’s also one of the top ten blood-gushers of 1985, as well as one of that year’s top five face-rippers.
Still, don’t let the great monster make-up, the dripping mouth slime, the bodies torn in half, the young punk dead meat, the cocaine snorted from a Coca-Cola can, the gratuitous black pimp and the 80s hair metal soundtrack here distract us from what this film is really about, which is a serious study of what would happen if an evil demonic presence took over a movie house and how to fight back IF the theater happens to have a motorcycle and a samurai sword available in the lobby. Directed by Mario Bava’s son Lamberto Bava, who clearly grew up taught the right lessons about the importance of gouged eyes and flesh torn in close-up in the movies.