A group of tenants and visitors are trapped in a 10-story high-rise apartment building infested with demons who proceed to hunt the dwindling humans down.
Practical Effects
Gloriously goopy transformation effects that ooze charm.
Score
Simon Boswell's synth-prog bangers slap unreasonably hard.
Production
That demon dog puppet deserves its own spinoff.
Director
Lamberto Bava
David Edwin Knight
George
Nancy Brilli
Hannah
Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni
Sally Day
Bobby Rhodes
Hank
Asia Argento
Ingrid Haller
Virginia Bryant
Mary the Prostitute
Anita Bartolucci
Woman with Dog
Antonio Cantafora
Ingrid's Father
Davide Marotta
Demon Tommy
Marco Vivio
Tommy
Michele Mirabella
Hooker's Client
Lorenzo Gioielli
Jake
Lino Salemme
Security Guard
Maria Chiara Sasso
Ulla, partygoer with camera
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was 11-year-old Asia Argento's first film role—her father Dario allegedly visited set and was horrified by the gore.
The 'demon vision' TV broadcast directly inspired similar meta-horror devices in Ringu and The Ring decades later.
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