Demons 2 1986  N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
aka: Demons 2: The Nightmare Returns
Director: Lamberto Bava
Cast: David Edwin Knight, Nancy Brilli, Coralina Cataldi Tassoni, Asia Argento, Bobby Rhodes, Virginia Bryant, Davide Marotta, Anita Bartolucci, Antonio Cantafora, Luisa Passega
Sally (Coralina Cataldi Tassoni) is having a birthday party in her high-rise apartment building. She takes a break from the festivities and turns on the TV in her bedroom. A documentary is being shown of a group of teens investigating a place where demons formerly existed. What do you know, demons are loosened, come out of the TV, and all hell breaks loose in the apartment building as the residents are cut off from the world.
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Opera 1987  R, 90 min.
Genre: Foreign / Horror
aka: Terror at the Opera
Director: Dario Argento
Cast: Cristina Marsillach, Ian Charleson, Urbano Barberini, Daria Nicolodi, Coralina Cataldi Tassoni, Antonella Vitale, William McNamara, Barbara Cupisti, Francesca Cassola, Maurizio Garrone
Director Argento comes through with lots of gore again, this time with loud rock music in the background. In fact, the gore may be more than his usual, if that is possible–some is downright revolting. A young opera singer, Betty (Cristina Marsillach) takes over the lead in a Verdi opera after the previous lead was run over by a car, and now a psychopath pursues her.
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 The Phantom of the Opera 1998  R, 103 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama / Horror / Romance
Director: Dario Argento
Cast: Julian Sands, Asia Argento, Andrea Di Stefano, Nadia Rinaldi, Coralina Cataldi Tassoni, Istvan Bubik, Zoltan Barabas, Lucia Guzzardi, Aldo Massasso, Gianni Franco, David D'Ingeo, Kitty Keri, John Pedeferri, Leonardo Treviglio, Massimo Sarchielli
This "Phantom of the Opera" differs from the classic story. In this version, the Phantom (Julian Sands) is an orphan, raised by rats in the sewer, and will stop at nothing to protect his rats from those who would do them harm–especially the chief exterminator, Ignace (Istvan Bubik).
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| 1. Demons 2 (1986)
aka: Demons 2: The Nightmare Returns
2. Opera (1987)
aka: Terror at the Opera
3. The Phantom of the Opera (1998)
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