Demons: The Official Announcement

[Daemonia]

Originally Posted by Hawkmonger

We have an OFFICIAL Demons 3, now.

But that's a comic, not a film, so it doesn't count.

[Stef Hutchinson]

Originally Posted by Daemonia

But that's a comic, not a film, so it doesn't count.

That's fighting talk.

[Hawkmonger]

Originally Posted by Daemonia

But that's a comic, not a film, so it doesn't count.

Roll up those sleeve's and we'll take this out side, Bub.

[The Reaper Man@Cult Labs]

My DEMONS and DEMONS 2 arrived on Saturday-two cracking packages and well worth the wait!

[Roughale]

So the Pentecost weekend had been reserved for the Demons BDs, but two things intervened, the weather was too good and Demons 1 was not Well, the quality of the transfer is excellent, but I found out that this is one of the films that has not aged too well, it is pretty crappy to be honest and since most people regard part 2 to be that, I did not dare a double bill But I still lobve having these discs, so no complaints from me and a big thank you for releasing them in this form and format!

One of the things that made Demons 1 even harder to take for me, is the fact bthat it has benn mostly filmed in Berlin (West), where I grew up and most of the locations are very well known and this distracts a lot, when you see how they tricked things. It starts with the Underground travelling at the start, they manage to get out of a train heading towards Kreuzberg (district), I am sure you can see the line number at some point, but the inner station they get out of is Heidelberger Platz, which is not even a station on th4e same line and pretty far off within the city and when she exits that station, they are at Wittenberg Platz - if my memory is correct, that is on both lines concerned, i.e. you would have to exchange here to get from one station to the other, so to save money it would have been wise tio film the end part of that travel in the middle of filming

Then there is the "cinema" The Metropol, which is not a cinema at all, it is a concert venue in Berlin, and probably still is, have not been there in a while... The inside is partially really the Metropol, but redecorated a bit, the cinema parts are definitely filmed somewhere else - the action scenes probably in a stage area where they rebuilt a cinema inside and maybe the one or other real cinema was used too - I am not sure, it has been too many years and the cinemas that come into my view are closed for a while anyway... Maybe even the red curtain was filmed inside the Filmbühne Wien? If so, then I hid there together with Clive Barker after his Hellraiser premier, he wanted to avoid having an interview with 2 very bad English speaking journalists and granted me the 30 minutes afterwards with a nice chat - if so, that would make the film extre special, only who was the Demon, Clive or me?

I digress...

I give the picture full points, the sound was very good, but my audio equipment is very minimal (just a soundbar) and the film gets an ok...

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

On the director's commentary they talk about the 'Metropol cinema' and how the exterior was (I believe) a hotel and the lobby was in the building but had been redressed. All the interior shots were in the studio in Italy so, if you are unfamiliar with the geography, they marry up very well.

As for 'cheating' and going from one place to another in the blink of an eye, sometimes logistically impossible, I often marvel at how the pyramids in Egypt are used in films – in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Michael Bay combines about three locations and then relocates them from the middle of the desert to somewhere where they are close to the sea!

Similarly, in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, they landed at Dover, ride on horseback for a while and are suddenly at Aysgarth Falls (over 300 miles away) and then, if memory serves, at Hadrian's Wall!

[Roughale]

Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs

On the director's commentary they talk about the 'Metropol cinema' and how the exterior was (I believe) a hotel and the lobby was in the building but had been redressed. All the interior shots were in the studio in Italy so, if you are unfamiliar with the geography, they marry up very well.

Good idea to check the commentary, maybe one day But it is eirther their or your memory that made a mistake here: The exterior is the Metropol venue I was talking about, used for concerts during my youth and funnily enough I was an extra on a German film where a fictional girl band came out of that venue and we were supposed to be fans trying to stop them from getting into the cab - we were so "good" it too several takes till they got into the cab and I earned 80 DM or so - never saw that film though... If you feel like exploring, go to Google maps search Berlin Nollendorfplatz and then walk along that street in Google Street View and turn into Motzstrasse, you can see the front of the fictional Metropolis Kino

Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs

As for 'cheating' and going from one place to another in the blink of an eye, sometimes logistically impossible, I often marvel at how the pyramids in Egypt are used in films – in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Michael Bay combines about three locations and then relocates them from the middle of the desert to somewhere where they are close to the sea!

Similarly, in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, they landed at Dover, ride on horseback for a while and are suddenly at Aysgarth Falls (over 300 miles away) and then, if memory serves, at Hadrian's Wall!

I know, I know and I am not against that, but as I was at many of these locations so often in my youth (at about that time too!) makes that pretty hard to ignore...

Edit: Interest6ing facts about the building used for the outside shots, even I did not know most of it:

http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/11285

[Stef Hutchinson]

Originally Posted by Roughale

One of the things that made Demons 1 even harder to take for me, is the fact bthat it has benn mostly filmed in Berlin (West), where I grew up and most of the locations are very well known and this distracts a lot, when you see how they tricked things.

I know exactly what you mean. I spent the whole summer in Berlin (ten years ago now), staying literally around the corner from the Metropol building on Bülowstraße.

The bit that gets me the most is when Ripper and chums are driving. It looks like they are driving repeatedly up and down the same 100 metres of road near Kaiser Wilhelm and the Europa building!

[Roughale]

Originally Posted by Stef Hutchinson

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The bit that gets me the most is when Ripper and chums are driving. It looks like they are driving repeatedly up and down the same 100 metres of road near Kaiser Wilhelm and the Europa building!

Very true, but that is even worse in one of the Bond movies, Octopussy I think, every time you see Roger Moore, they drive up the Ku'damm in one direction and when you see the woman on the passenger seat, they drive tha other way

[Daemonia]

It's called 'movie magic'.

*If anyone's ever heard the hilarious commentary on the Cohen's Blood Simple, you'll know exactly what I'm talking about.