Demon Knight

Demon Knight
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Ernest Dickerson
Written by	Mark Bishop Ethan Reiff Cyrus Voris
Based on	Tales from the Crypt by William Gaines Al Feldstein
Produced by	Gilbert Adler
Starring	Billy Zane William Sadler Jada Pinkett Brenda Bakke C. C. H. Pounder Thomas Haden Church
Cinematography	Rick Bota
Edited by	Stephen Lovejoy
Music by	Edward Shearmur
Production company	Crypt Keeper Productions[1]
Distributed by	Universal Pictures[1]
Release date	January 13, 1995 (1995-01-13)
Running time	92 minutes[2]
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$12 million[3]
Box office	$21.1 million[4]

Tales from the Crypt Presents: Demon Knight is a 1995 American black horror comedy film^[1] directed by Ernest Dickerson, starring 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 negative reviews.^[5] It was followed by a second standalone Tales from the Crypt film, Bordello of Blood (1996).