11. In a time before the Earth, before the Sun, before the light of the stars...when all was darkness and chaos, the old Gods, the forgotten Gods ruled the darkness.
12. Demon Dads turn mushy if you squeeze them.
13. Stephen Dorff wasn't an angry #$&% when he was 12.
14. If you fall to the floor in tears in front of a large, multi-armed demon, he will grab you by the hand, pat you on the head, and place an eye in the hand he held you by.
15. If you fall into the hole where demon lives, do not continue to read bible verses -- it only pisses them off.
16. After a rough night of fighting off demons, it is perfectly okay to go clean yourself up and catch a flick on television because, hey, you've earned it.
17. While watching said flick on television, if the body of a man you thought up crashes through the wall, feel free to go ahead and examine it.
18. Tiny killer demons from hell are kind of cute...
21. Hugging who you think is your Mom, only to discover it's a dead dog, is hilarious.
22. If you arrive to your house on your bike in bright daylight, walk through your house for 5 minutes, then go to your backyard and discover it's night outside...it must be a nightmare.
23. Being confined to your house, grounded by your Dad, can inadvertantly kick ass.
24. When your sister and best friend are human sacrifices sent to hell...they will come back.
25. Insulting demons is OK so long as you are trying to get rid of them.
26. Levitation probably isn't a very good idea and it'll make a little kid cry in front of his sister's cool friends.
27. Moths are tougher than they appear...they can shatter windows.
28. When you're in your room and suddenly a rotting, un-dead corpse appears, you don't scream but instead just give a few groans and try to maintain your cool as it takes your friend.
29. Demons are about the size of a lawn gnomes.
30. You can learn how to summon demons from hell and banish them all with the help of an album by a band called "Sacrifyx".
31. If you make an album about summoning and banishing demons you will probably die in a plane crash.
Ciao,
Peace & Love,
Jen
The brain doesn't need blood. It just needs to be kept wet.
53. When you throw the Bible down a hole it causes an explosion.
54. Pulling a striped blanket over your head gives you a satanic edge!
55. Like Terry, if you come home to a house with a kitchen that's a total mess, then chances are your responsibility-neglecting, alcoholic father is probably out getting wasted.
56. If a portal to Hell happens to appear in your backyard, you can cover it over with ratty old pallets and other scrap wood to prevent the demons from emerging.
66. We should just give our troops bibles to throw at the enemy instead of wasting money on expensive weapons when clearly, bibles are very.....explosive.
The Universe is a yawning chasm, filled with emptiness and the puerile meanderings of sentience.
75. Around the mid to late '80's the best word to describe a newly discovered cavelike hole in a backyard was, in fact, - "Wicked"!
76. For Al & the Lee sisters, a slumber party apparently consisted of streaking their hair then crashing out around 9:00 p.m.
77. It takes the fierce strength of a hammer to break open 1 geode, but for another it only takes a gentle freefall to the soft ground 3 feet from the bottom roots of a tree.
87. If you've burnt a hole in the roof, you can't launch any more rockets without supervision. Don't worry though. Terry said he'd supervise, so...game the fvck on!!!
88. Terry is NOT a nerd, dammit! He listens to Sacrifyx!
89. It's okay to ruin your favorite heavy metal album by playing it backwards in the service of mankind.
100. *Wahoo!* Glen (Stephen Dorff) couldn't handle the pressure, so Terry (Louis Tripp) had to tackle the demons in "The Gate II: Trespassers".
So much for this one from sipplesusedcars:
68. Boy this is one movie that cannot possibly have a sequel.... oh *beep*
So, to add another as a filler... 68 vs. 2. You CAN have a very creepy horror film rated PG, with no nudity, no f-bombs, no shower/bathtub scene, no person in the middle of the road, no sex scenes with resulting teen deaths, plus a general absence of many other recent horror cliches. Wow! You can even see what's going on during the night scenes! (Anyone notice the "so dark you can't see a thing" trend?) They even pulled off a lot of very cool effects with no CGI!
By the way, I'm watching this on IFC, having passed 100 viewings quite a while back. I plan to watch this little gem as often as it crosses my path and do have it videotaped, too.
EDIT: I wanted to correct the person who joked about the rocket zapping the demon. The rocket is a symbol of "love and light", being a gift to Glen from Al; the siblings might fight, but they obviously love one another. It's what the rocket represents that destroys the demon, not simply it being a toy missile.