"DARIO ARGENTO presents a film by LAMBERTO BAVA" "DEMONS" "The first scene...in the metro, right?" "Was this in Germany?" "Let's say that the film was indeed set in Berlin, but we should take into account when." "At the time, Berlin was a city at the centre of an empire governed by a different type of politics." "So there was a bit of..." "The film conveys this, though in a very subtle way." "What I have said just now I will say again on the last line of the film." "I can speak now about our choice of music." "We are in the mid '80s, so electronic dance music was very popular." "Therefore I decided to write a soundtrack that had the characteristic sounds of dance music, but reflected different tastes." "Here we see for the first time the man with the metal face mask, who is very important in the film, because it's the first thing that makes you think something is about to happen." "How did this story come about?" "How did you come up with the idea" " of men in masks and demons?" " Well, this was..." "The script of "Demons" took months, because everything was thought through over and over, then discarded." "Working with Dario Argento when he was the author and, more importantly, the producer..." "At the time Dario was, and probably still is, incredibly good at deciding what needed and didn't need to be done." "Because Dardano Sacchetti, Ferrini and I worked..." "They were the actual writers and used to meet with me first, then with Dario." "And Dario always used to say no to this, no to that..." "The strength to carry on like this..." "We tried to...we really tried to..." "We tried to..." "We worked very hard to get to this version." "Here, in the silence..." "I have to say that even besides Simonetti's music, this film has very carefully designed sound effects, because, for example, the creaking noise made by the train as it leaves is very unpleasant, the noise of steps..." "And here for the second time We see..." "Watch out." "...the man with the mask." "Here we go." "Look at his clothes and the sound he makes." "It's a bit..." "I can't tell you what it is, as it would make things too easy but the man in the face-mask has to do with the demiurge, perhaps even with the Devil." "He's the one who decides how to get you into this place, into the cinema, which essentially represents Hell in this film." "He's a bit..." "Let's say that there is..." "One could see it as a reference to Dante Alighieri's "inferno"." ""Abandon all hope, ye who enter here," Divine Comedy." "Let's talk a bit about her, Natasha Hovey, because people may not know she's American and was in another famous film." "Why did you choose her?" "I chose her because she had the typical girl-next-door look." "Especially for that reason." "She was an actress who'd already done" "I don't think just one film but more than one, and most of all she looked like an ordinary girl." "A nice, good girl." "She'd been in "Soap and Water" with Verdone, so she must have been so." "It was a film half..." "Let's say it was quite a funny comedy." "If I can, I'd like to add something about the mask." "This make-up was requested by Lamberto, and we followed the same style as the masks that appear in the film later on." "So this one was supposed to resemble the ones that we see later on." "It was applied using glue, and then on top of it, along the edges, they used jelly, which was meant to look like skin that had grown back around the mask, incorporating it into the face." "If I can add something..." " The guy in the mask is Soavi." " Sure." " He's now a famous director." " He was my assistant." " Lamberto's assistant." " And an actor." "It's thanks to him that I shot the music video for "Demons"" "and met Sergio Stivaletti." "He did my make-up for the music video, which was directed by Michele Soavi, the guy with the mask" "This is an interesting fact for those who didn't know it was Michele." "I also worked with Michele on a film where he was the director, and it was nice watching him work as assistant director to Lamberto." "This is the other protagonist of this film." "They are two friends, who go to the cinema after being given a ticket by the masked man." "Was the mask a tribute to your father's film?" "No, not at all." "The one you see now?" "It's not a coincidence that the cinema where they go, in Germany, is called Metropol, which is an old-fashioned name for a film." "Let's not forget that Germany is where the first horror films were made at the start of the 20th century." "I'm talking about Murnau, Dreyer, "Nosferatu"." "So it recalls..." " This cinema is an imaginary one." " Does it exist?" "It does but it's still very much a product of our imagination, because, for example, at the time of shooting a cinema with wooden chairs was unthinkable, yet it was all part of..." " You see this shot..." " So it was exactly like that." "No, the cinema was actually a hotel and we changed the entrance, whereas the inside was a cinema elsewhere." "Were these outdoor scenes shot in Germany or...?" "This was in Germany, in Berlin." "It was West Berlin, because then you could get to East Berlin by tube." " How about the indoor scenes?" " They were filmed in Rome." "The outdoor scenes were all shot in Germany, in Berlin." " Does this hotel still exist?" " I have no idea." "However it wasn't called Metropol." "We put up all those signs." "It's all part of the set, we found a building we liked, which was a fairly dilapidated hotel, but then that's what we needed." "It evoked 20th-century German cinemas and the birth of horror films." "This is the inside of the cinema which is an actual cinema in the centre of Rome, though we made a few changes to it." " There are some interesting posters." " How long did you take to shoot it?" "She's fairly..." "If you think about this girl, Nicoletta Elmi..." "She started acting at the age of five and her first film was with my father." "It was called "Twitch of the Death Nerve", and she was five." "She is also the famous young girl in "Deep Red" by Dario Argento." "I saw a poster of Dario Argento's "Four Flies on Grey Velvet" on the wall." "Whereas the mask that the samurai on the Japanese bike is holding is a tribute to my father's film "Black Sunday"." "How many weeks did you take to shoot the entire film?" "I think..." "I think eight or just over that." "Let's say that it's a film..." "Although it didn't have a stratospheric budget by today's standards," "I wish we still had that kind of money in Italy to make a film." "Let's say that there was enough budget to make it well and that we were keen to make it so." "I'd like to say that there was also an element of sarcasm, because a blind man going to the cinema is in itself comical." "However, by touching things, he realises something's going to happen." "Here we go, something is happening and here we have for the first time several amusing characters." "Thank you." "The one in the red trousers is Geretta." "The other actress is called Fabiola Toledo, and then there's Bobby Rhodes, who is their pimp." "This is the famous mask that she put on, and what was supposed to happen, happened." " What cinema is this or is it a set?" " No, it's the same one." "The whole cinema is real." "This is a cinema in Rome." "It's a cinema that was closed because it was already an old one at the time." "It had wooden chairs." "For us it was great because it looked..." " It looked a bit..." " Yes, a bit run-down." " How many masks were needed?" " These are the two protagonists." "Urbano Barberini who also looked fresh-faced." "How many masks did you have to make for this film?" " However many were needed?" " We made two kinds." "So you'll basically see two different versions." "An old one that we'll see shortly and a modern one that was in the foyer." "This is a film within the film, which is very important, because what happens in the film..." "I won't reveal it but we know what it is." "It's about a group of friends who visit a dilapidated church and an abandoned town." "Everyone will soon realise what this film is about." "It's the red-haired girl who involves them, right?" "She is another daughter of Dario's, Fiorella, isn't she?" " Fiore." " Fiore, of course." "Yes, there is Fiore and there is young Asia too." "Not in this one but in "Demons 2"." "She is another ambiguous character." "I'd never noticed this sexy detail of her dress, that's open here, and you see her body, her skin." "I'd never noticed that before." "You see, when musicians are not playing, they look..." "I have to say that Lamberto's always had great talent for casting actresses." "Did you write the music before the film or once it was finished?" "No, I saw the film and then I..." "This is how it's always done." "First I watch the film and then I write the music, and the same happened in this case." "As with many other actors, I cast them again in other films." "The girl with the pale shoes, I worked with her on three of four films." " Today she's a grown-up woman." " Of course." "An interesting fact for music lovers, the guy in the film is Modugno's son." " One of his sons." " Modugno's the one who sings Volare." " Mr Volare." " The son of Mr Volare." "I remember him, he was very funny." "Very funny indeed." " He was in one of your father's films." " Yes, Stelio Candelli." "He was in "Terrore nello Spazio"." "I can't remember what the English title is." "It was my first film as assistant director." "Whose idea was it to use rock music?" "The type of music you used for this film." "This film has an original soundtrack which I wrote, and then there are also songs by Billy Idol, Motel Crew," "Rick Springfield, Go West, so music that..." " There was a lot of rock." " However the songs were well-known." "So they were used as background music" " not to describe..." " Not to describe the film." "We liked mixing truth and..." "This reflects how the film is." "It mixes reality and imagination." "It's nice to see this film again after so many years." "Was it filmed in '85?" " '85." "No, actually..." " It was released in '85." " It came out in '85." " Was it filmed in '84 then?" " I can't remember." " Me neither." "Let's say that it would be nice to see it with the soundtrack." " This film without soundtrack..." " That's true." "We were so young back then!" "At the time, it was already forbidden to smoke in cinemas." " However they..." " Nowadays you can't smoke anywhere." "And rightly so." "I'd like to know something, how can you be so similar?" " You and Bob haven't aged at all." " You're exactly the same, it's true!" " We don't age." " No." "Now they are going to..." "What are they doing?" "Are they looking for the mask?" "They know that that church, in the old days, had been linked to Nostradamus, so it has to do with something that with prophecies and with the opportunity to discover something still unknown." "She was a model from Australia, if I remember correctly?" "Yes, I think so." "She was a model." "Lamberto, how did you choose me?" "Was it from "Gente" or from the photo?" "Do you remember?" "The assistants are in charge of calling agencies and screening photos." "They do the pre-selection." "There are many characters in this film and they needed to be cast carefully." "Then you meet those you are most interested in and you make a choice." "I wanted you to play the blind person." " Really?" " Yes, but now..." "They watch the film unaware of what's going to happen, but can already see here that the film..." "It's not a coincidence that on the tomb there is an "N"" "that can stand for Nostradamus." "That's right." "The classic spider webs that you find in this type of films." "At this point in the soundtrack we used electric keyboards." "It was a very mysterious music during..." "In theory this was supposed to be the music not for "Demons"" "but for the film that's being shown, so in a way we have two soundtracks." "Did you stage any promotions before the film was released to get people to go to the cinema and see what happens in another cinema?" "Did you run any advertising campaigns beforehand?" "There were free tickets being given out by a masked man." "You see that they start to..." "They try it on, using fear as an excuse, but the girls so far are not interested." "It was a good thing to choose actors with international looks." "You would never be able to tell whether they are Italian." "It's not a provincial film." "It could have been shot anywhere." "It could be American, German..." "Look, they have found..." "Now we start to..." "This is a book containing the same prophecy that's on the poster." "Lamberto got me to draw that." "Then it was put in the book and that was our starting point." "The drawing was made before starting, of course." "I think that the success of this mask which everyone sees as an iconic prop from the film is due to..." "I thought about this later on, but I think it's important that the eyes resemble a sort of cage." "As if to say that someone is trapped behind it." "It makes me think of a prison that has someone trapped inside." "Whoever wears a mask becomes a demon." "They are laughing because she too wore the mask and cut herself." "This is the first indication that what is happening in the film is also happening to them." "I'd never noticed that he cuts himself just like I'd cut myself earlier on." "This is the first time I have seen the film more or less since we made it." "Because actors only ever look at themselves!" "You see?" " And this is where it starts..." " Maybe the same is true about Michele." "Directors will always be directors." "These two look the same." "If you shot this scene now, it would look identical." " Yes, definitely." " I don't think her hair looks the same." "Bobby still has the same jacket." "I have made another film with Fabiola." "She was pretty but didn't do anything after that." "No, I think she got married and had children." " However, another..." " Now it's important..." "This one's already..." "We used many curtains, because they give the feeling that something may happen behind them." "This is one of the key scenes in the film." " This is where it starts..." " I remember this day." "It wasn't easy creating this effect, but we were having a good day, I think it only took three takes." " Three or..." " I can't remember if we did three or 18." "I don't mean to say that it was all quick and straightforward." "It's not that it was quick, it's that it had all been planned." " Everything was well-organised." " From the writing to the making." "It had been rehearsed..." "This had to look disgusting." "And to this day, I think it manages to provoke the same reactions." "From the moment this happens, violence takes centre stage." "The head hitting the ground and the teeth..." "How can you hit your head like that without smashing it?" " Is it made of rubber?" " You do it backwards." "I see, the other way round, like the head in "Deep Red"." " I don't know." " Like Gabriele Lavia...under the car." "The liquid that came out of my face was made with milk, Alka-Seltzer and green paint." "Green ink." "Watching a film in a cinema is always more overwhelming." "The screen, the backstage..." "These are the more conventional characters." " A bit..." " He is a violent guy." "What I'd like to say is that everyone in this film is deliberately over the top, also in the way they act, particularly from now on, and nobody is entirely nice." "Those who are in there all have something to atone for." " It's a bit like in the "inferno"." " Indeed." "Sergio, this was your first big project, right?" "You were very young." "Were you overwhelmed or scared?" " How was it?" " I had just done "Phenomena"..." "So for me, this was the first film that used a lot of special effects." "There were many more than in the previous film I'd worked on." "Here we see a demon for the first time." "This also recalls the drawing that we had come up with..." "The music that accompanies all these scenes is very good, because it linked everything so perfectly." "Being stuck behind the curtains gives a real sense of claustrophobia." "She almost can get out and when she does..." "Her throat was very well made-up." " The special effects..." " Indeed." " These things were done by Rosario." " Make-up artist Rosario Prestopino." " I remember that." " My special effect's coming up shortly." "The one that I think is the best in this film." "Out of the ones I created, I mean." "When did you shoot this part of the film?" " Was it before...?" " First we shot the film to be screened which had to be made like a real film, edited and put in the projector at the cinema, so the first few days were spent on that." " So they were watching the film..." " Yes, while we were shooting." " It wasn't added later." " No, we couldn't have done that." " Nowadays you'd use a green screen." " But it's not as engaging." "Here's a real demon." "Geretta has now become..." "I have to say that Geretta, made-up as a demon, is even more attractive." "You should go out like that in the morning!" " Just ask Sergio to do your make-up." " Of course, every day if you want." " Who was he, a theatre actor?" " He was very good." "Yes, a good actor." "When choosing each actor, we especially made sure that their features were suitable for the character and for their personal traits." "All the spectators look pleased with what they are doing." "The scene that's coming up is one the best ones in "Demons"." "This one." "I have always been very proud of this sequence, because the cinema screen is always fascinating, but from the back it's even more beautiful." "It's like getting into something and looking out from the inside." " Is this still the same cinema?" " Of course." "This is quite rare, normally there's just a wall behind." "No, we chose this one out of many others mainly because it had two circles and many staircases." " So in that situation..." " To have so much space at the back..." "That's why we chose it." "Have you ever thought of making a prequel to this film or a sequel, another film after this one?" "I can't say, but it's an idea that we may pursue." "In some of the scenes we've just seen that is not the actress but a fake neck created especially for that special effect." "What you are saying is that you're not inside the actress." "The actor we've just seen, Karl Zinny, is another actor I like, and I made three or four films with him." "Isn't he the grandson of a very famous actress?" "No, he is the son of Veronica Zinny, who was an actress in "Viridiana", directed by Bufiuel." "His father, actually his step-father is another famous Italian actor," "Remo Girone." "This is good, you see the tent being cut open...but it's actually the screen." "This scene, to this day, is very striking." "This wasn't a real screen, I guess." "Did you use a drape?" "No, it wasn't a drape, it was a screen." " A real screen?" " Nowadays they're more sophisticated." "But at the time, they were just sheets." " Here comes Bobby Rhodes." "Wait..." " They were made of cotton." "What we're about to see is to me the best special effect created by Stivaletti." "The transformation of Fabiola Toledo." "Because it doesn't..." "Let me watch it as it's been years since I last saw it." "The woman who is strangling the two is evil." "This is very clear throughout the film." " Those who are mean end up dead." " They've become demons." " In the film too." " Of course." "Did the actors have any problems being involved in the special effects?" " Any difficulties?" " I have to tell you about this one." "This hand was inspired by the one in "An American Werewolf in London", but with some differences." "We had nails that broke off." "I'm going to interrupt you because this is one of Sergio's best special effects." " The teeth..." " No, everything." "We made a cast of the actress and then we made an animatronic head that was able to move." " I think you were talking about this." " Yes, the whole face..." "It's almost always fake." "It's been entirely constructed..." "There were servo-controls inside that moved every part of the face and then there were these teeth that I pushed using wires and that were replaced by fangs." "Another thing that we worked a lot on when writing the script is this one." "Dario Argento was also the producer of "Dawn of the Dead", which is a very famous film by George Romero." "So from the moment we starting discussing "Demons", we knew that the demons had to be as different as possible from zombies." "The demons here look like they are under the influence of drugs." "They are over-excited, they run around like crazy." "They are entirely different." " This is our Geretta." " I am not a saint." " I am a demon." " You understand what you're doing." "The demon is overexcited, and quite proud of what they are doing." "I have to say that when you make a film there are many indicators that tell you if it's going to be good." "One is when the crew works with you especially well, and I don't just mean those members who are already talented and demonstrate their skills during the making of the film, but every person down to the most junior." "In this scene there are some stuntmen, but most of the people are extras who particularly wanted to be in this scene." "I remember that." "The actors and extras on the set were all wonderful and intelligent too." "This is what I was talking about yesterday." "All of these scenes were filmed with actors who'd been running around a lot, up and down the stairs after rehearsing, so that they were all so out of breath that they couldn't even speak." " To convey a sense of fear." " And we were in heels!" "Up and down..." "I felt really emotional the day we filmed this scene." "It was a very strange feeling having to kill her when I arrive there." "It was a bit too demon-like for me." "I remember that we took a break for five minutes to allow me to calm down a bit." "I have to say that she is quite strong." "She wasn't even the most evil one." "She has the body for it." "I like this one too, very harsh." "It was filmed very well, with him on one side and me on the other side." "And then the hand..." "Thankfully, it wasn't really my hand." "Lamberto, how did you write the script?" "There are very intense moments alternated with moments of calm." "Was it planned from the start or did you think of this while filming?" "No, well..." "Let's say that when you have this kind of environment..." "When shooting a film in a closed environment, you need to make sure something always happens so no one becomes accustomed to the place and the level of attention doesn't drop." "However, the place itself gives you a sense of claustrophobia that's quite obvious." "The other thing we planned was for the environment, for the cinema, to be a bit like a living creature, so there is always water dripping..." "It looks as if the cinema itself was undergoing a transformation." "This is another idea I like, buildings and objects as living creatures." "When we get to it, I will show you but there is one point where we did a lot of work on the script, because we knew that sooner or later we had to go out of the cinema" "although we didn't know how." "Then we had an idea that many found over the top but to me it couldn't have been better." "Later on..." "Nicoletta Elmi seems to be on the side of the demons at the start, because of her enigmatic expression, but in the end she's a victim too." "Well, yes, although later on she just blends into the crowd." " Yes, but earlier on..." " She loses that..." "This is another part I really like, because it shows the projector with the film that..." "It's our life, basically." "It's the heart of the cinema." "It's not a coincidence that many directors become attached to these..." "These films where they want to show..." " That was a real one." " Yes, some are the actual ones." "The panels were real but they were re-built..." ""Demons" was very popular in the States and other parts of the world, but was it also famous in Italy at the time, or did it become famous later on?" "No, "Demons" was a great success from the moment it was released." "I remember that when it came out in Rome," "I was with my 4-month-old son who was travelling around with us in a buggy and we went..." "It came out in four or five cinemas in Rome, which was many at the time, and I remember that when we went to the last one which was and still is called Embassy..." "While we were..." "First of all it was the first film in Dolby Stereo, so we were checking those systems and noticed that one of the speakers was not working as well, and that the cinema projector wasn't set correctly." "This was a problem that all cinemas had." "It wasn't right so we would go and check all these things." "Because we were checking all the speakers, we were running late and, as we got back to the foyer to go out, the film was due to start about 45 minutes later." "I had a heart attack because out of the cinema doors there were three hundred people, all very young and queuing to get in." "That gave me such a feeling..." "It was before the first screening on day one." ""Demons" did very well in Italy." "We sold many records of the soundtrack through one of the biggest labels in the world." "For example here there was a background..." "As writers we felt the need to go out every now and then." "Going out in the end meant that those people you think will be victims of this will go inside the cinema because they too are guilty." " Are those guys all German?" " No, they are all..." "There are some actors..." "They are international." "In that case too, I chose actors that were quite credible, based on how punks looked like at the time." " It was the time of the first punks." " That's exactly how we were." "Here Bobby becomes initially the one who guides the others." " The leader." " That's it." "He begins to realise that those who are scratched will become demons so they have to get rid of them." "Is Urbano Barberini still an actor?" "Yes, he works in theatre a lot." " He was a noble, right?" " He didn't take part in the second film because..." "He later went back to cinema and did not care, but when we wanted him again in "Demons 2", he refused, because we had to become..." " He had an important role to play in..." " Within the Barberini family?" "No, not in the family but he had to become..." "I'm not sure what the title is..." "A Knight of Malta or a Knight Officer, and as such he couldn't be involved in cinema, but after saying no to a couple of films, he said, "Who cares?" ""I want to work in cinema and be an actor."" "We are back in the car now." "This is West Berlin as it was then." "In this scene, was that a product placement agreed with Coca Cola?" "No, not at all." "Another reason why we chose Berlin is that at the time, it was one of the best illuminated cities in Europe." "As far as the lighting goes, everything you see in this scene is real." "The only film I've seen where there's no Coca Cola is "Gladiator"." "This scene symbolises a bit the passing of a baton." " One protagonist passes..." " Yes, this is where they start to build barricades and defend themselves." "There he is." "This is already a demon of the second kind." "Do you see?" "We had studied the different transformations of the demons, so we had demons of the first, second and third kind, and by the end they were not even demons anymore..." "They weren't humans anymore." "This is Fiore Argento." " How old was she, 16?" " Either 16 or 17." "Maybe 16." "For a while, she thought about becoming an actress." "Yes, but then..." "I think she is..." "She's a fashion designer." "She also spent a lot of time in the States." "I don't know what happened to the guy." " Who was he?" " Just one of the young actors we cast." "He was another fresh-faced guy." "This is still Berlin." "Possibly the only things that give away the age of this film are the cars." "As far as everything else goes it could have been filmed last year." "It's quite a contentious film." "There weren't many films at the time where you saw people sniffing." "There are also nice storylines, for example Bettina..." "Her name is Bettina and I think she is Garzini's wife still to this day." " They fell in love on the set." " They are still together." "How nice." "Garzini is the second guy." "That's him." " She's his wife?" " Yes." "Did you really tear away the cinema chairs?" "Well, we had many of them." "Actually, I think they were brought over from other cinemas." " They weren't enough?" " Scenes had to be filmed many times." "When you have to break things a lot, you need more of them." "The cinema where we filmed had shut down, right?" " It doesn't exist anymore." " I think it's now a supermarket." " It was the Atlantic, right?" " I can't remember." " I don't recall the name." " Was it near Cinecitté?" "It was on Via Tiburtina, opposite the De Paolis studios." " I know where." " So, these guys..." "I have worked with these two actors again in other films." "This is a German guy, Peter Pitsch." "He has an amazing face." "I met him again not too long ago." " What about Lino?" " Lino..." " Salemme." " I did a couple of other films with him." "I even cast him to play the part of a police inspector." " Is he still an actor?" " No." "He had worked a lot with me." "I cast him in four or five other films, but when he got to a certain age, he stopped." "Perhaps because he didn't manage to emerge." "He was always playing secondary roles, but he was a good, interesting actor." "Looking at his face, he could be American, French..." " Italian..." " He is actually Italian." "Let's say that in my films people's faces always look quite international." "Of course, if I shot a film in Sicily, I would cast Sicilian-looking people." "Bettina is from Florence." "Peter is amazing." "This is quite an erotic scene." " Quite long." " The only one in the film!" " Who is he?" "I can't remember." " What's his name?" " Lino too has a nice face." " Yes." "He looks typically Italian." "He's a very good actor." "That's Paola Cozzo." " She hasn't done anything else." " She's nice." "Yes, very nice." "She is the daughter of a famous assistant director, but after this film she didn't do anything else." "I remember that once we were being interviewed in a TV studio." "It was me with the entire cast." "All the girls were there, her, Fiore," "Natasha, everyone was there." " She's not an actress anymore either." " She lives in Paris." "I think she was half Italian and half American." " I thought she was Dutch." " Natasha is a name..." "Yes, an American one." "The blind guy never dies." "This is still the part where..." "Something more needs to happen, otherwise..." "There is still tension because some are stuck inside and some are not." "The two most defenceless managed to get inside." "There is another scene coming up that I really like." "When we filmed it, we said..." "This is what I mean when I say a living building." " Yes." " Water dripping, everything moving." "And walls chipped..." "Did you install the white panels or were they in the cinema already?" "I can't remember now." "But these walls are fake." " Fake?" " No, made with the actual materials..." "This other space they enter here is again claustrophobic." "The water falling down and the echo of the dripping noise, the lack of music..." "Are there any plans for "Demons 3" or a re-make?" "Why not?" "Next time, you will show your dark side." "I remember that I received a call for "Demons 2", but I was in the States." "Because, to be accurate, as a demon didn't I die on screen." "In the film." "If I am not mistaken, my initial idea was for you to be the first one to be found in the dead city." "The one who then becomes a demon." "Though I have to say that the one we chose became famous." "This resembles a Western film before the Indians attack." " It's time for a cigarette." " Yes, a cigarette before the battle." "The scene I like is not the one coming up." "It's another one." "I didn't remember this part." "That's why they end up going into the cinema." " To run away..." " From the police." "The interesting thing is that you never come out of it." " One did come out." " Yes, indeed." "This is an important scene, with the door opening up." "The door opens..." "Did you see that?" " It spreads outside of the cinema." " Yes, exactly." "From one claustrophobic place, such as a cinema you can't leave, to an even more claustrophobic one, such as the air-conditioning duct." "And the same happens here..." "I really like the sound effect of the nails here, which makes him realise that it's no longer her who's following him but someone else." "These two characters in the film represented innocence." "They were young and fresh-faced, whereas now they use make-up." "I'm being mean." "Now that I see a shot of the hands I remember these were problematic." "Because Michele Soavi from my point of view, made me work very hard as an assistant director." "Every day he'd give me a long list of things he needed for the next day." "I don't know if it was Lamberto who asked him to do so." "Michele, probably to be on the safe side, got us to buy all kinds of make-up products for 100 people who had to look like demons every day." "Hands, nails..." "We had so much to buy, we struggled to be ready for the next day." "I remember that it took four hours every day just to do my hands." "It was a lot of work indeed." "Lamberto, what did you find most difficult about filming "Demons"?" "Was there a scene in this film that was particularly problematic?" "I'll tell you when we get to it." "There was one scene in particular that was incredibly difficult, especially because we didn't have a lot of time." "We could have done with more time and means." "It's not this one." "These are the scenes that I like." "She goes up to this mirror..." "She was my least favourite demon and that's why I didn't use her much." "This is a scene that the very moment it was shot," "I said, "This is what's going on the film poster."" "And that's where it ended up." "How did you make those eyes?" "The eyes were an idea..." "But I can't say." " You can't say it." " No." "It'll remain a secret." "They were very effective but we didn't use a computer to make them." "At the time computers were not being used." "It was an empirical thing." " Yes." " Empirical in the traditional sense." " It was an idea, a stroke of genius." " That's right." "How come you cast Bobby Rhodes as a demon in this film and as a different character in "Demons 2"?" "Because I liked that idea of casting him for another role as if he was a different person." "In "Demons 2", there were no demons in the real sense of the word." "It's not that there were..." "There weren't any others." "It's not a sequel, there are none of the others." "It's a different story." "I think that's Ottaviano Dell'Acqua." "That's right, I remember now." "I've been in two other films with him." "I remember that you and Dario seemed to work very well together." "Was it difficult to have the producer on set all the time, or was it just as it looked?" "Dario is a complicated person, and I thought he was complicated before we started working on the film." "Once we started shooting, Dario wasn't there much, because he'd realised..." "He'd always come to galvanise everyone, saying, "Come on, make sure you do a good job."" "If there was a scene that he was interested in, or if his daughters were on set he'd come, but he was never an invasive producer, never ever." "When he gave advice, it was good advice, and it was given in moderation." "I have to give him that, he was very good." "We all worked very hard on this film." "We were shooting 30-35 takes a day." "Even more sometimes." "I will tell you later which ones I was obsessed by." "I want to talk for a moment about the lighting." "Gianlorenzo Battaglia, director of photography, was very good and very quick too." "There were a lot of darker scenes, because when you have a lot of special effects, if you use too much light, even the best ones won't look as good." "You need to use the right light, that's the main thing." "It's very important, isn't it?" "The whole thing, how the light is used..." "Absolutely." "On DVD, films always look a bit brighter than in the cinema." "For example, I noticed this when Fiore was being chased." "You could see her face well here, whereas in the cinema it was darker." "You see that now." "It looks like a mistake." "There is something I noticed and I like..." "The flashing lights, even though they don't make sense, convey anxiety." " That's right." " Yes." "They change..." "It's not clear why they're flashing, but they convey that that sense of movement." " She's not well." " Indeed." "Stivaletti got her to wear yellow contact lenses." "I remember those contact lenses, they were big and orange." " I remember them too." " They'd been designed especially." "They are not like the ones you can easily find nowadays." "No, everything was made especially." "The strange thing was the costumes, because it's never happened to me in another film..." "For every costume, there weren't three sets as normal, there were 18 because they kept getting sprayed with all sorts of things." "And I told you that the crew were dressed in plastic overalls, so they wouldn't get..." "With all the spraying!" " Pay attention to this." " This is a fantastic shot." "This is the third kind of demon, the one that comes from within." "Here, together with Lamberto, we decided to have a dummy in the same position as the actress." "Lamberto was very accurate in the positioning, getting the actress in the same position." "Looking at it now, it's a shame it didn't move more." "It could move the head, but it was a special effect." "It was difficult to fill it with what we needed and having it move." "It was made proportionally to the size of the back and one of my assistants was made-up as a demon of the third kind." "It was a mask with various mechanisms to move different parts, but it was worn by an actor." "Look at the AC/DC poster in the background." "They were huge at the time." " What's the one in the middle?" " "No Nukes"." "He's also infected." "He got scratched." "Why did you want to have a sword in this scene?" " It's a samurai sword." " Does it have a particular meaning?" "It's an object fairly almost religious, so to speak, a sword..." "This is the sequence I was referring to." "Because having the motorbike speeding..." "We got two motocross champions to do this scene, and three different motorbikes." "We had scheduled three days for this, and they were the worst three days of my life." "The average number of takes went from 30 to many more." " Was this the most difficult scene?" " It should be done with a bit more..." " Time?" " Yes, whereas here you had to really..." "The seconds were counted." "All the people chasing are stuntmen." " They were not the real actors." " I remember, I was there at the time." "There I am!" "The music here is also very good." " This was a stuntman." " Not only this one." "Not only him." "I don't think Urbano Barberini used to ride a motorbike." "Maybe a Mercedes." "There I am, in the red trousers." " Riding over the seats is quite cool." " Yes." "That was all carefully planned." "Every take with the bike was carefully prepared using springboards, slides or even quad bikes, because in some cases the motorbike couldn't cope." " That would have been good in 3-D." " Indeed." "Obviously." ""My hero," says her face." "Note to the fans..." "I did not die during that scene." "He killed everyone else." "This is what I meant when I said that we needed something out of the ordinary," "to allow them to escape, that was the thing." "Seeing it like this, it looked like a..." "But if you'd followed the story carefully, when the cinema door was open..." "Someone got out, so the city has been contaminated, and the helicopter, which some wonder how it fell..." "The pilot must have turned into a demon." "A question that many people ask." " Is that a miniature of the cinema?" " No, the helicopter was real." " It had no engine but..." " It was real." " I thought it was a model." " No, the model was the breakage..." "But the helicopter that falls down is a real one." "It's an actual helicopter." "It was only a small one, though, it wasn't big, but still..." "The pilot was grabbed by the head." "The scalp..." "I like this image of the helicopter resting on the cinema chairs." " How did you get a helicopter there?" " Because cinemas have..." " Those doors, yes." " Yes, the stage doors." "Those doors..." "Is this a model now?" "No." "The rotor was a fake one but the helicopter is still real." "It was real." " He's an expert already." " Yes, he's become a marine." "Getting up on top of the helicopter, it's a nice image." "He's a true hero." "Urbano Barberini looks a bit like the Russian guy in "Rocky"." "That actor..." " Lundgren." " Yes, Rod..." "Dolph Lundgren." "He looks like him, only smaller." " The ex-bodyguard of Grace Jones." " That's right." " This is the lady from before." " Your least favourite demon." "I've always liked this idea." " Was this in Rome?" "Is it a set?" " This is a set." "A set in a theatre." " Now we're going to see Stivaletti." " Of course, it's him." "I play the part of a demon at the end, it's a short scene." "If you want to pause the video..." "Here we see again..." " The man in the mask." " He represents the Devil." "We say the Devil but..." "Was this at the De Paolis studios?" " Do they still exist?" " Yes." "They've been renovated." "They get quite nasty here." " It's about time." " Exactly." " This is eye for an eye." " Something for the eye..." "Eye for an eye..." "That's right, eye for an eye." "This scene was another difficult one, we were ready to shoot on the day, but the polyurethane I'd put inside the head had swelled up, and the head had become too big." "It was really ugly." "But Gianlorenzo Battaglia..." "This is me now." "There you are." "Battaglia helped me by filming it from a certain angle, so we found a way of using it anyway even though it wasn't..." "In the end, it worked quite well." "And here..." " Was this Berlin or Rome?" " This was Rome." "Did the film stay within budget or did it go over?" " Pardon?" " Did you stay within budget?" "Always." "I have never gone over in terms of budget and working days." "It was the same when I was a producer." " You learnt a lot there." " Quite the opposite." "That's why I became a producer, so none could pressure me on what to do." "This was Goff redo." "I don't know where the girl was from." "Probably American." " Also fresh-faced." " Then there was the little boy." " Yes." " He became famous." " Really?" " Yes." "Giovanni Frezza." "What if you could change any scene or anything about the film?" " Today?" " Yes." "A few expressions of Natasha Hovey resemble Francesca Bertini." " I find them annoying." " Like the "My hero" one." "Of course there is..." "Nowadays..." " The film still looks good now." " Yes." "Of course, this film would be a bit different nowadays." "You would also have other means, if you had enough budget to make it, you could do certain things..." "not better but differently." "However, it's a film that's still good to watch." "I am happy with the way it still looks today." "For you Sergio?" "A few more special effects perhaps?" "A few more, definitely." " It would be nice." " What I like is that at the end..." "It looks like the film's over, you see the end credits, but it's not over." "As if it wasn't enough, the protagonist has now been killed." " No happy ending for this film." " There's still the blonde girl." "I have to say that the young blonde girl was quite a sight." "Maestro, my friends, it's been great to see you after such a long time." "Can I say something about the music?" "If I were to make this film now, I wouldn't do the things I did back then, because the sounds and the instruments are typical of that time, but otherwise I wouldn't change a thing because it's great as it is." "This film has its own appeal because, being a cult film, it's typical of that period in time." "If you look at the clothes of punks, it's what they used to make then." "Nowadays, they'd look funny." "Yes, but if it's all..." "It's the appeal of those years that allowed us to still be here today and have a big following." "The only thing I would change is having yogurt in my hair..." "I would change..." "Thank you, everyone." "I would change Geretta." "Geretta and Bobby are the only ones who still look the same."