Night of the Demon (1980 film)

Night of the Demon
1983 VHS artwork by VCII, Inc.
Directed by	James C. Wasson[1]
Screenplay by	Mike Williams[1]
Story by	Jim L. Ball
Produced by	Jim L. Ball[1]
Starring	Michael Cutt Joy Allen Robert Collings Jodi Lazarus Richard Fields Michael Lang Melanie Graham
Cinematography	John Quick
Edited by	Joy Rencher's Editorial Service
Music by	Stuart Hardy Dennis McCarthy
Production company	Aldan Company
Release date	1983 (1983) (U.S.)
Running time	92 minutes[a]
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$70,000[3]

Night of the Demon is a 1980^[b] American horror film directed by James C. Wasson, written by Jim L. Ball and Mike Williams, and starring Michael Cutt, Joy Allen, Robert Collings, Jodi Lazarus, Richard Fields, Michael Lang, and Melanie Graham. The film centers on an anthropologist who, along with a group of his pupils, embarks on an expedition to prove the existence of Bigfoot in a rural region of Northern California, only to be stalked and systematically slaughtered by the creature.

Completed in 1979, the film was first released on VHS in the United States in 1983. Due to its graphic violence, the film was deemed a "video nasty" by the British Board of Film Classification, and underwent heavy censorship in the United Kingdom. It later received a DVD release from Code Red in 2011, sourced from a tape master. In November 2021, Severin Films issued the film for the first time on Blu-ray, featuring a 2K scan from the original film elements, which were previously alleged to be lost.^{[citation needed]}

Cite error: There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or {{efn}} templates on this page, but the references will not show without a {{reflist|group=lower-alpha}} template or {{notelist}} template (see the help page).