All Of Them Demons

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In 1986 Mario Bava's son Lamberto birthed a sequel to his still-fun-to-watch 1985 film Demons called, bizarrely enough, Demons 2. Both the original and its sequel were produced by Dario Argento. So close your eyes and just imagine the spangly Euro-trash-tastic glories on display! It is magically delicious.


But it's not a film one can review. It defies any attempt. I think it was the well-known critic Troville90 at Netflix that said it best:

"Demons 2 is basically a carbon copy of its predecessor. Sure, there are some minor differences: this one takes place in a stylish apartment building rather than a movie theater, and the soundtrack is comprised of less 80s hair metal and more atmospheric new wave and post-punk. Also, this one seems to have more narrative cohesion and fewer mysterious plot lines left unresolved by the films conclusion (the first movie raised far more questions than it answered; Demons 2 simply doesnt raise any questions."

The crazy thing is that I completely and fully understand and endorse that as a check in the pro column with regards to this movie. You don't really want it to make sense. The entire plot can be summed up by the film's title: Demons 2. Yup, that's this movie in a nutshell!

Alan Cumming wants to eat your soul.

So I ain't reviewing this wonderful ridiculousness. What I am doing is zooming in on some sort of insane gap in the space-time continuum that watching this movie caused me to stumble upon, and that is this:

What the fuck happened to David Edwin Knight?

DEK is mostly kind of the star, I suppose, as much as the movie ever concentrates long enough to focus on anything specific, of Demons 2. Arguments could also be made that aerobic-tights or potted plants are also the star of Demons 2, but let's stick to my original thesis. DEK's in the film a lot, his battle to get to his pregnant wife trapped in their apartment comprises the main through-line again, I guess, and he and his wife are the ones that escape in the end. The win.


And needless to say if you looked at the above pictures, David Edwin Knight is attractive. He's adorable! If I could find any info on him anywhere I am guessing it's mention him having been a model at some point. But you can't find info anywhere on him! He does not exist. His IMDb page is as bare bones as bare bones gets. He was in one other movie, something called Who Shot Patakango? (smartly shortened in some places to Who Shot Pat?) in 1989 as "Bic Bickham" (gotta love that name) opposite a just starting out Sandra Bullock. They have a sex scene in the film, which of course you can find online, because it's always easy to find sexy shots of any actress online.


Not so much the fellas. And those two credits are it for our Mr. David Edwin Knight, and after that he seems to have fallen off the face of the Earth. Nowhere. Nothing. Now I'm not arguing that he lit the screen on fire with his outstanding talent in Demons 2. But he's pretty! And pretty people get to work a lot in movies while they're pretty! Even terrible terrible ones. It's just a rule. A law, really. It's written in the Hollywood Constitution. So what happened to him? A producer just went right out and bought him, didn't they? He spent the 90s sunning beside a pool in a vast array of International Male costumes, I know it.

So since his slight contributions to cinema seem to have been forgotten, I'm taking it upon myself to fill in the gap. Here are a bunch of shots on David in the film.

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