Talk:Night of the Demon

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Hello! I'm new to this so bear with me....I beleive I have an addition to the "Night of the Demon" movie. The lead singer of the shock/rock group GWAR, used the Demon in the movie as inspiration for his character Oderus's looks....just check out oderus and then the demon and you'll see...the reason I know this is true is because I am Dave Brockie, lead singer of GWAR, and I love that movie!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Maggotmaster (talk • contribs) 18:39, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

I just added that piece of trivia. I don't know if you are really Brockie, or just someone pretending to be him, but if you in fact are Dave, I apologize for taking your possible username (I'm a big fan). And also, assuming you are Dave, looking forward to the show next week!

---not the real Oderus 21:55, 27 September 2007 (UTC)Oderus

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[edit] Removing one "trivia" item

Removing this here, as I believe it is completely inaccurate:

• For reasons unexplained, nearly all of the dialogue by American actor Dana Andrews was later overdubbed by him. The overdubbing did not take room acoustics into consideration, and is noticeable during exchanges with his on-screen counterparts.

Having just viewed the film twice back-to-back, I can state with authority that, yes, Andrews did dub his own voice, but only in some (not all) of his scenes, and certainly no more than the rest of the cast dubbed themselves. In fact, he (and the others) seem to have been called upon to overdub themselves only in scenes shot on location (the airport, the Karswell Halloween party, the train station and rail yard at the climax, various street scenes) and not at all in scenes shot in the studio (with the obvious exception of the seance scene, in which the medium is overdubbed by the actors portraying the characters that the medium is channeling). This was a common practice in film production before improvements in technology allowed better noise filtering and truer dynamic response in uncontrolled (i.e., location) situations. None of the dub jobs recreate the "room acoustics" of the original shot, as it wasn't possible to do so at that time, but in most of Andrews' scenes his "room acoustics" do match those of the other actors because he simply wasn't dubbed in those scenes. I did notice, however, that his voice is distinctly different from those of the rest of the cast. Andrews was a heavy smoker (he practically chain-smokes in every scene of the film), and he has a definite "smoker's voice" that the rest of the cast does not share. In other words, he is raspier, breathier and much more resonant than anyone else, and this undoubtedly makes him sound different from everyone else (in addition to having the only American accent in the film). But he isn't dubbed any more than any other actor in the cast, and in scenes where he isn't dubbed the audio ambience is identical to that of everyone else (undubbed) in the scene. 71.204.204.249 21:19, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Plot

Needs expanding - currently it's trying to be a teaser rather than a plot description. Unfortunately I missed it on TV a few days ago, but if I recall rightly, the audience is in on the mystery throughout: Harrington is seen to be killed by the demon at the beginning. Gordonofcartoon 15:12, 8 October 2007 (UTC)