Tales from the Crypt Presents: Demon Knight
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Directed by	Ernest R. Dickerson Gilbert Adler
Produced by	Gilbert Adler
Written by	Ethan Reiff Cyrus Voris Mark Bishop
Starring	William Sadler Billy Zane Jada Pinkett Smith Thomas Hayden Church CCH Pounder and the voice of John Kassir as The Crypt Keeper
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date(s)	January 13, 1995
Running time	92 min
Country	USA
Language	English
Followed by	Bordello of Blood
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Demon Knight (also known as Tales from the Crypt Presents: Demon Knight) is a 1995 horror film directed by Ernest R. Dickerson, and stars Billy Zane, William Sadler, and Jada Pinkett Smith. Brenda Bakke, CCH Pounder, Dick Miller, and Thomas Haden Church co-star. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Ernest Roscoe Dickerson (born June 25, 1951) is an American film director and cinematographer. ... Gilbert Adler is a US film producer, writer and director. ... William Sadler as Luther Sloan on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine William Sadler (born April 13, 1950 in Buffalo, New York) is an American actor. ... Billy Zane (born William George Zane, Jr. ... Jada Pinkett Smith (born Jada Koren Pinkett on September 18, 1971) is an American actress and singer. ... Thomas Haden Church (born June 17, 1961) is a Texas-born television actor and cartoon voice actor who started in the entertainment business as a radio personality. ... Carol Christine Hilaria Pounder (born December 25, 1952) is an American film and television actress. ... Johnny Kassir (born October 24, 1957 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American actor, voice actor, and comedian who has been active in many facets of entertainment since 1984. ... The Crypt Keeper. ... Universal Pictures is the main motion picture production/distribution arm of Universal Studios, a subsidiary of NBC Universal. ... January 13 is the 13th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Tales from the Crypt Presents Bordello of Blood is a 1996 comedy/horror film starring Dennis Miller, Erika Eleniak, Angie Everhart, Corey Feldman, and Chris Sarandon. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... DVD cover showing horror characters as depicted by Universal Studios. ... Ernest Roscoe Dickerson (born June 25, 1951) is an American film director and cinematographer. ... Billy Zane (born William George Zane, Jr. ... William Sadler as Luther Sloan on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine William Sadler (born April 13, 1950 in Buffalo, New York) is an American actor. ... Jada Pinkett Smith (born Jada Koren Pinkett on September 18, 1971) is an American actress and singer. ... As Selena Coombs in American Gothic Brenda Bakke is an American actress. ... Carol Christine Hilaria Pounder (born December 25, 1952) is an American film and television actress. ... Richard Dick Miller (born December 25, 1928) is an American character actor who has appeared in many films, particularly those produced by Roger Corman, and later in films of directors who started their careers with Corman, including Joe Dante and James Cameron. ... Thomas Haden Church (born Thomas Richard Quesada on June 17, 1960) is an Academy Award-nominated American film and television actor. ...

Demon Knight is a spin-off from the popular HBO series Tales from the Crypt, and features scenes with the Crypt Keeper (played by Tommy Vicini and once again voiced by John Kassir) at the beginning and end of the movie. HBO (Home Box Office) is an American premium cable television network. ... Tales from the Crypt is an American horror anthology TV series that ran from 1989 to 1996 on the premium cable channel HBO. It was based on the 1950s EC Comics series of the same name and was produced by The Geffen Film Company in association with Warner Bros. ... Tom Vicini was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. ... Johnny Kassir (born October 24, 1957 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American actor, voice actor, and comedian who has been active in many facets of entertainment since 1984. ...

The film was followed by Bordello of Blood, though not exactly in terms of continuity. Tales from the Crypt Presents Bordello of Blood is a 1996 comedy/horror film starring Dennis Miller, Erika Eleniak, Angie Everhart, Corey Feldman, and Chris Sarandon. ... In fiction, continuity is consistency of the characteristics of persons, plot, objects, places and events seen by the reader or viewer. ...

Plot

The Key

The story of Demon Knight revolves around an artifact and its guardian. The artifact is a key, one of seven keys that can open the gates of Hell and unleash darkness across the universe. Medieval illustration of Hell in the Hortus deliciarum manuscript of Herrad of Landsberg (about 1180) Hell, according to many religious beliefs, is an afterlife of suffering where the wicked or unrighteous dead are punished. ...

In the beginning, before the Earth was formed, demons tried to use these seven keys to focus the power of the cosmos into their hands, but after God created the world, He scattered the keys throughout the universe. After thousands of years of retrieving six of the keys, the demons returned to Earth upon learning that the seventh and final key was located there. To prevent the key from falling into the demons' hands, it was filled with the blood of the dying Jesus Christ, obtained when He was being crucified. The demon Satan In folklore, mythology, and religion, a demon is a supernatural being that is generally described as an evil spirit, but is also depicted to be good in some instances. ... This article discusses the term God in the context of monotheism and henotheism. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... The Passion is the theological term used for the suffering, both physical and mental, of Jesus in the hours prior to and including his trial and execution by crucifixion. ...

The blood in the key has the power to create barriers on entrances where it prevents demons from entering. These barriers can be broken by either removing the blood from where it was poured, or by destroying it (one character destroys it with a shotgun blast). The demon Satan In folklore, mythology, and religion, a demon is a supernatural being that is generally described as an evil spirit, but is also depicted to be good in some instances. ...

If the blood runs out, the key could be refilled with the blood of the latest guardian of the artifact and the new supply of blood would still have the same power, due to it still having some (however diluted) blood left in it from Christ or possibly because the sacrifice of the knight's life re-empowers the blood. Christ is the English of the Greek word (Christós), which literally means The Anointed One. ...

The Guardian

The guardian of the key appears to be immune to aging and natural death, but they are still vulnerable to death through other means. On their hand, there is a kind of tattoo that acts as a gauge to when their night will come when they will fight the demons, and when the night is over, pass on the duties of guardian to another. This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...

The first guardian of the key was a thief named Sirach. Thousands of years later, during World War I, a soldier named Dickerson was the guardian of the key and later gave the responsibility to a fellow soldier, Frank Brayker. “The Great War ” redirects here. ...

Brayker's fight

Nearly nine decades after receiving the key from Dickerson, Brayker is being pursued by the Collector, a higher-level demon tasked with retrieving the key. Arriving in New Mexico and narrowly eluding the Collector on the highway, Brayker heads into a nearby town where he runs into Uncle Willy, an alcoholic who takes Brayker to a boarding house that used to be a church. There, Brayker meets the landlady, Irene, young criminal on work release Jeryline, postal worker Wally, prostitute Cordelia and her crooked boyfriend Roach. St. ... Capital Santa Fe Largest city Albuquerque Area  Ranked 5th  - Total 121,665 sq mi (315,194 km²)  - Width 342 miles (550 km)  - Length 370 miles (595 km)  - % water 0. ... King Alcohol and his Prime Minister circa 1820 Alcoholism is the consumption of or preoccupation with alcoholic beverages to the extent that this behavior interferes with the alcoholics normal personal, family, social, or work life. ... Boarding House is a privately owned house,in which individuals or families on vaccation, holidays, deputition,transfered on temporary duties, on some particular training,short&mediun tenure visitors,working professionals & lodgers,rent one or more rooms sets for one or more nights,sometimes for extended periods of weeks, months and... It has been suggested that Ecclesia (Church) be merged into this article or section. ...

Shortly after, the Collector arrives at the hotel with Sheriff Tupper and Deputy Bob, who arrest Brayker and question him about the artifact. The two police officers find the artifact, but the Collector can't touch it as long as there is blood in it and needs it emptied out. Uncle Willy starts to empty it, but Sheriff Tupper takes the key. As they are about to leave, the Collector punches the sheriff, driving his fist right through his head. Brayker briefly scuffles with the Collector, eventually driving him off with the key. The Collector jumps out the window and summons a legion of skeletal, lower-level demons that can possess people after they've been killed. To complicate things, the Collector tempts the people inside the hotel with promises of getting things they want if they join him. The demon Satan In folklore, mythology, and religion, a demon is a supernatural being that is generally described as an evil spirit, but is also depicted to be good in some instances. ...

First, he seduces Cordelia and uses her to get to Wally, who is then killed by a possessed Cordelia. In the following confrontation, the possessed Cordelia rips off Irene's arm before finally being killed by Brayker. Roach leads a revolt against Brayker, and everyone else agrees to head into an underground mine shaft in an effort to escape without the demons knowing it; Brayker grudgingly joins them. Jeryline gets separated from the others and finds Danny, a young boy whose parents were possessed by two of the Collector's minions. Just then, the demons in question attack. Jeryline and Danny join up with the others, and everyone returns to the hotel basement. Roach ends up destroying a blood barrier after shooting a demon, and everyone makes a run for the upstairs, where the demons are unable to get to them (earlier, a blood barrier was accidentally created at the top of the stairs).

Brayker explains the history of the key to everyone, and at that moment, Jeryline realizes that Danny is missing. Everyone goes to look for Danny, but Roach manages to obtain the key from Brayker without his knowing it. The Collector tries to entice Jeryline into helping him retrieve the key, while Irene finds Danny in the attic with Uncle Willy and orders Uncle Willy to get and bring Brayker up into the attic. Uncle Willy takes Danny with him, only to fall victim to an illusion of being in a bar with beautiful, naked women. The Collector, posing as a bartender, goads Uncle Willy into drinking alcohol. Irene and Deputy Bob find a trunk loaded with weapons, and learn that Wally had been planning to attack the post office. Functional group of an alcohol molecule. ... Memorial of the 1986 post office incident in Edmond, Oklahoma. ...

While looking for Uncle Willy, Brayker and Jeryline find Danny in a room, and encounter a possessed Uncle Willy. Brayker is barely able to fight Uncle Willy as he finds that he doesn't have the key, while Jeryline is torn between killing Uncle Willy and helping Brayker. Brayker grabs a machete and cuts off Uncle Willy's head, but that doesn't stop the possessed man. While his headless body proceeds to attack Brayker, Danny takes Uncle Willy's disembodied head and stabs his eyes out with deer antlers, ending his menace.

Roach, meanwhile, has made a bargain with the Collector: the key in exchange for safe passage out of the hotel. Roach wipes away the blood on the stairwell to allow the Collector to past through, and gives him the key. However, once he finally gets the key, the Collector reneges on his bargain and sics his minions on Roach. Victory is short-lived, though, when Brayker fires an arrow into his eye. The Collector drops the key and falls to the floor far below. Brayker gets the key and heads up into the attic with Jeryline and Danny, while Irene and Deputy Bob fight off the demons. Irene sets off a belt of hand grenades, and she and Deputy Bob sacrifice themselves to kill the minions. Grenade may refer to: The well-known hand grenade commonly used by soldiers. ...

Now alone with Jeryline and Danny, Brayker uses what little blood is left to create a barrier on the attic window, then hands the artifact to Jeryline, saying that she is the "chosen one", the one who, being the only person to survive the night, will receive the duties of guardian. Just then, a possessed Danny attacks Brayker, clawing into his chest. Jeryline kicks Danny through the window, and Danny is killed by the blood barrier. Before dying, Brayker fills the key with his blood, gives Jeryline the key, which brands the gauge tattoo onto her palm.

After Brayker dies, the Collector comes up into the attic and again tries to sway Jeryline to join him. Jeryline has slathered blood on her body, and grabs the Collector's arm, the blood burning his skin. The Collector disappears, and Jeryline goes to confront him, only to be ambushed by him. The Collector washes the blood off of Jeryline's body, but she tries gouging him with the key; though it has no effect, it distracts the Collector long enough for Jeryline to drink some of the blood. After one last attempt to get her to join him, the Collector is about to kill Jeryline until she spits the blood in his face. The Collector writhes in pain and goes up in flames before reverting to his true demonic form and exploding.

As a new day dawns, Jeryline refills the key with Brayker's blood and heads off into the world. However, she is being followed by a man in an overcoat and a black hat...

The film ends with The Crypt Keeper attending the world premier of the film. When he arrives at the theater, the producers confront him, revealing that they have "final cut". The last shot of the film is of the Crypt Keeper being decapitated by a guillotine. mrs plenty. ...

Trivia

• In an original ending the Collector transformed into a more demonic form before his destruction, but the test audiences disliked it. It was changed so that the Collector would be in a familiar form when he was destroyed.
• Brayker says he was given the key by a soldier named Dickerson. This is a reference to the film's director, Ernest R. Dickerson.
• Demon Knight was released in theaters on Friday, January 13, 1995; Friday the 13th is a day traditionally held to be bad luck. This fits Tales from the Crypt's macabre atmosphere.
• The concept of destroying a demon's eyes in order to kill it was later used in the television series, Brimstone, which was created by Ethan Reiff and Cyrus Voris, who wrote the script for Demon Knight.
• Brayker's key artifact is also used in Bordello of Blood although its importance bears less relevance than in "Demon Knight".

Ernest Roscoe Dickerson (born June 25, 1951) is an American film director and cinematographer. ... January 13 is the 13th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A Friday occurring on the 13th day of any month is considered to be a day of bad luck in English, German and Portuguese-speaking cultures around the globe. ... This article is about good and bad fortune. ... Tales from the Crypt can refer to: the television series Tales from the Crypt the film Tales from the Crypt the comic book Tales from the Crypt, published by EC Comics during the 1950s. ... Brimstone (1998-1999) is a short-lived Fox television series, featuring a dead detective whose mission (assigned by the Devil) is to return 113 spirits who have escaped from Hell to Earth. ...

Cast

• Billy Zane – The Collector
• William Sadler – Frank Brayker
• Jada Pinkett Smith – Jeryline
• Brenda Bakke – Cordelia
• CCH Pounder – Irene
• Dick Miller – Uncle Willy
• Thomas Haden Church – Roach
• John Shuck – Sheriff Tupper
• Gary Farmer – Deputy Bob
• Charles Fleischer – Wally
• Ryan Sean O'Donahue – Danny
• John Kassir – voice of The Crypt Keeper

Billy Zane (born William George Zane, Jr. ... William Sadler as Luther Sloan on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine William Sadler (born April 13, 1950 in Buffalo, New York) is an American actor. ... Jada Pinkett Smith (born Jada Koren Pinkett on September 18, 1971) is an American actress and singer. ... As Selena Coombs in American Gothic Brenda Bakke is an American actress. ... Carol Christine Hilaria Pounder (born December 25, 1952) is an American film and television actress. ... Richard Dick Miller (born December 25, 1928) is an American character actor who has appeared in many films, particularly those produced by Roger Corman, and later in films of directors who started their careers with Corman, including Joe Dante and James Cameron. ... Thomas Haden Church (born Thomas Richard Quesada on June 17, 1960) is an Academy Award-nominated American film and television actor. ... Gary Farmer (born June 12, 1953, in Ohsweken, Ontario) is a First Nations actor of the Cayuga Nation and Wolf Clan. ... Charles Fleischer (born August 27, 1950 in Washington, DC, USA) is an American actor and voice artist, best known as the voices of both Roger Rabbit and Benny the Cab in Touchstone Pictures 1988 animation/live action hybrid film Who Framed Roger Rabbit. ... Johnny Kassir (born October 24, 1957 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American actor, voice actor, and comedian who has been active in many facets of entertainment since 1984. ...

Soundtrack

1. Cemetery Gates - Pantera
2. Tonight We Murder - Ministry
3. My Misery - Machine Head
4. Diadems - Megadeth
5. Instant Larry - Melvins
6. Fall Guy - Rollins Band
7. Beaten - Biohazard
8. Policia - Sepultura
9. Hey Man Nice Shot - Filter
10. 1-800-Suicide - Gravediggaz

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External link

• Tales from the Crypt Presents Demon Knight at the Internet Movie Database