YMMV / Demon Knight

• All There in the Manual: In the novelization, the town of Wormwood is pretty much abandoned.
• Aluminum Christmas Trees: Brayker says he received the key in France, from a soldier named Dickerson on August 23, 1917. Although the American Expeditionary Force did not commence large-scale operations on the Western Front until the spring of 1918, several thousand American troops had arrived in France after the United States declared war on Germany in April 1917, and were sporadically involved in fighting thereafter.
• Complete Monster: The Collector is a demonic Bounty Hunter searching for the final key his species needs in order to bring about the apocalypse. The Collector is a soulless monster who hides behind a veneer and delights in joking as he leads his victims to damnation. When Frank Brayker, a Demon Knight entrusted to guard the final key from the demons, seals himself in a boardinghouse alongside its residents, the Collector summons an army of demons and lays siege. Through his psychic powers, the Collector is able to possess the humans in the boardinghouse by tempting them with their deepest desires. However, the Collector never provides what he offers and instead the boardinghouse residents, such as Cordelia and Uncle Wally are turned into low-level demons, tortured souls trapped in monstrous bodies that the Collector controls. At the film's climax, the Collector possesses a little boy through a comic book and uses him to mortally wound Brayker. With the last key in his possession, the Collector merrily chats with the sole survivor, Jeryline, about how humanity will be reduced to leftovers, and attempts to cut out her heart as a memento after he fails to corrupt her.
• First Installment Wins: Most agree that the sequels Bordello of Blood and especially the 2002 Dolled-Up Installment Ritual are a far cry from this movie, which is widely considered a Cult Classic.
• Fridge Brilliance: Shooting the eyes of the lower-level demons kills them instantly because it frees the tortured souls within. It doesn't work on the Collector or high-level demons because they have no souls.
  • It also makes sense that destroying the eyes would release a tortured soul. There is an old saying: "Eyes are windows to the soul".
  • It's heavily implied all the Demon Knights have to be thieves, which makes sense when Brayker tells the story of the keys' origin, God stole the keys from the demons in the first place.
• Fridge Logic: What exactly is stopping Brayker from refilling the Key with his own blood or, for that matter, using it against the Collector, like Jeryline does in the end?
  • Because, as shown by the ending, another Collector will just turn up in the dead ones place.
• Heartwarming Moments: Jeryline and Brayker bond quickly, and it isn't just because they're both Demon Knights.
• I Am Not Shazam: You would be excused if you thought that the movie title refers to the villain, since he's a demon and a high-ranking one so is, in a sense, a knight. However, it's actually the hero's title, although he's only briefly named as such by the villain ("No one's brought back a demon knight before. Well, not in one piece, anyway.")
• Just Here for Godzilla: Billy Zane's scene-stealing role as The Collector is what most people seem to seek the movie out for.
• Narm Charm: Let's face it, given the franchise, this is to be expected.
• Retroactive Recognition: Oh, before Ryan Donohue became Demyx, he was "Danny" in this movie
• Viewer Gender Confusion: If for the name and neutral appearance, y'all would have thought Danny was a girl.

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