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Night of the Demon
Directed by	James C. Wasson
Produced by	Jim L. Ball
Written by	Mike Williams
Starring	Joy Allen Bob Collins Barrett Cooper
Music by	Dennis McCarthy
Distributed by	Gemstone Entertainment
Running time	97 min.
Country	USA
Language	English

Night of the Demon is a 1980 low-budget horror movie directed by James C. Wasson and written by Mike Williams, presenting a gory take on the Bigfoot legend.

Presented in flashback, the film tells the story of an anthropology class's all-too-successful expedition into the American wilderness to find the truth behind the Sasquatch legend. Along the way, the team learn about the creature's previous victims, uncover the squalid story of a hermit (Crazy Wanda) who gave birth to a mutation after being raped by the monster, and finally come face to face with the beast himself.

The film has a disjointed, stilted, surreal feeling - exacerbated by the extensive use of flashbacks - throughout, prompting at least one critic to liken it to the zero-budget works of Nathan Schiff, though there are some interesting attempts at replicating the stylized lighting of Dario Argento in certain scenes. Night of the Demon became most famous for its depictions of castration, dismemberment, stabbings and disembowelling. Though hardly convincing, they are extremely graphic and helped to propel the film (released on video in the UK by Iver Film Services) onto the video nasties list. The film remained banned until 1993, when Vipco resubmitted it to the British Board of Film Classification, who agreed to pass it with an 18 certificate as long as one minute and forty-one seconds' worth of gory mayhem was deleted. Almost all of the violent scenes were trimmed, but the castration of the biker and the removal of a student's intestines (for use as a flail) were removed completely. If the film were submitted to the BBFC now, however, it would most likely be passed uncut.

The current owner of the film is thought to be the independent label Bijouflix, though other sources have speculated that the rights have since fallen into the public domain.

External links

• Night of the Demon at the Internet Movie Database