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The Double Divas at the Heart of ‘Night of the Demons’ [Horror Queers Podcast]
BloodyFM Blog / Updated: April 01, 2025
Weirdo Angela
Our run of Gay Icons and Anniversaries continues. After kicking off October with discussions of David Fincher’s Gone Girl (listen), Tobe Hooper’s original The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (listen), and Bob Clark‘s Black Christmas (listen), we’re celebrating Halloween early with Kevin S. Tenney‘s Night of the Demons (1988).
In the film, Judy (Cathy Podewell) is lured by her prospective boyfriend Jay (Lance Fenton) to a party at Hull House, hosted by the school weirdo Angela (Amelia Kinkade) and her boy crazy best friend Suzanne (Linnea Quigley). Along with friends Frannie, Max, Stooge and Helen, as well as Judy’s secret admirer, Sal (William Gallo), the party will accidentally unleash Evil Dead-esque demons that kill and infect the partygoers.
Can the group survive until dawn? Or will Angela and the other demons dance and lipstick boob them to their doom?
Episode 305: Night of the Demons (1988)
Ditch the school dance and come party with Angela because we’re talking Kevin S. Tenney’s Night of the Demons (1988).
Not a lot of character or plot in this one, but it’s a really fun time with some stylish direction and great FX.
Plus: Angela as a dancing (nepo) icon, Linnea Quigley’s line deliveries, Rodger as a rare black 80s horror survivor, and subverting the “good boy/bad boy” trope with Jay and Sal.
Cross out Night of the Demons!
