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Demon Knight (1995)

Demon Knight poster
Original title
Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight
Directed by
Gilbert Adler, Ernest Dickerson
Genre
horror film, comedy horror, monster film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 32m
Rated
R
Rating
6.9 of 10 from 565 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man carrying a key that protects a sacred blood artifact ends up at a remote boarding house. A charming demon hunter and his monstrous followers try to seize the artifact by attacking the building.

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What happens

Tales from the Crypt Presents: Demon Knight is a 1995 American horror comedy film directed by Ernest Dickerson from a screenplay by Mark Bishop, Ethan Reiff and Cyrus Voris. It stars Billy Zane, William Sadler, Jada Pinkett, Brenda Bakke, C. C. H. Pounder, Dick Miller, and Thomas Haden Church. Demon Knight is a feature-length film presented by the HBO series Tales from the Crypt, and features scenes with the Crypt Keeper (voiced by John Kassir, as in the series) at the film's beginning and ending. The film was met with mostly mixed reviews. It was followed by a second standalone Tales from the Crypt film, Bordello of Blood (1996). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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