captainsolo said:
DuracellEnergizer said:
Night of the Demon (1957)
Great movie. The only downside were the close-up shots of the demon - it almost turns an otherwise perfectly sublime film into some goofy kaiju film. It's a minor flaw, though, and not enough to bring the rest of the movie down.
8/10
I also just saw this for the first time.
And despite being a major proponent of less is more, and a huge fan of Tourneur's Cat People which essentially created the principle of suggested horrors...the film may actually work better with the shots because the amount of tensioned suspense is beyond palpable. Additionally you don't quite know for certain whether or not the Demon itself is imagined, just as the final shot leaves a question mark in the viewer's mind.
I do like the far away shots of the creature. I think that's as far as the filmmakers should have gone with the demon, though.