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1.0 out of 5 stars
Can anything suck more than this?, May 1 2004
This review is from: The Demon (DVD)
I've seen my fair share of bad movies. But this?! Oh God, the whole movie was just nauseating. The dialogue was weak and uninteresting. There was some silly nonsense about some girl missing and some guy was going to kill them or something. There was no cohesion in this poorly written mockery of a movie. Acting was dead. Were they even alive? So just about 99% of the movie was just talk and talking about something boring and unimortant. I kept trying to sit through this movie 3 times but I always grew restless. So finally, I decided to fast forward until something happens. All of a sudden you see the dork on the cover of the movie chasing some girl (the lead character??) then that's it! The chase ends prematurely with no violence. Just screaming and running. That's about it, and then the movie ended. I could not believe how bad it was. I have yet to see a movie more worthless than this. Even Legally Blonde is more intellectual than this. Hell, Lion King is more graphic than this too. Avoid this like the plague by all means. And buy some real good bad movies like Blood Freak, Dead Alive, The Beyond, or Story of Ricky.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Less Than A Man / More Than A Man..., April 15 2004
This review is from: The Demon (DVD)
A little girl is kidnapped right out of her bed by a nameless, faceless maniac. Her mother is found (alive) bound, with a plastic bag over her head. Two months later, the girl's dad calls in a psychic army colonel (Cameron Mitchell) to investigate and do what police can't do in order to find his daughter and her abductor. The colonel gets visions of the madman and contorts his face a lot. Meanwhile, a beautiful pre-school teacher (Jennifer Holmes) keeps seeing an unknown stalker outside her classroom, and at the mall. Said stalker is, of course, THE DEMON, and has already killed a man who picked him up hitch-hiking. This guy's a real freakazoid, complete with black leather razor-blade tipped gloves (sound familiar?), rope, and plastic bags in his murder-kit. He attacks a girl in a dark alley, who's just left "Boobs Disco" (?!) only to be interrupted by two goofy bikers. THE DEMON clotheslines them both, leaving the girl to scream, and stand around gawking, before finally realizing she should run away. Another pair of honeys is standing outside of another disco, in another dark alley, being menaced by THE DEMON, when three blokes happen to wander out. The girls point at the weird guy, causing the three men to give chase. THE DEMON kills all three in quick fashion. Later, two boys are playing army in the woods. One falls on his back and sees the missing little girl's skeleton in a tall tree. Yep, THE DEMON is a bit disturbing. It all comes down to a final showdown at the young, pretty schoolteacher's house, where he pursues her and she spends most of the time topless. THE DEMON himself seems to have no face, wearing a mask to give him human features. He has super-human strength and desires only to kill. We get glimpses of him in his apartment, doing push-ups among a clutter of bikini-clad babe magazines. Not much to go on is it? I liked this one due to it's (somewhat interesting) supernatural element. Not bad...
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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Unique locations may provide interest., Oct 19 2000
By "mean_johnny" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Demon (DVD)
This is an odd little stalker film shot (cheaply) in Johannesburg and obviously trying to be a South Africa's answer to HALLOWEEN. It concerns a pair of topless nursery school teachers who are being stalked by a guy in a white mask (not so original, yes). The virginal damsel in distress is Jennifer Holmes, who played the maid on NEWHART before she was replaced by the more-popular Julia Duffy. The film print used for the DVD is grainy and dark and the film has the same production values and look as the old "Police Story" crime series of the late 1970's. However, the South African scenery, accents, and locations could definately prove interesting, along with the frequent nudity and dated feel for anyone nostalgic about the crusty, grainy crime films of the late 1970's and early 1980's.
12 of 14 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
BORING with a capital "B", Oct 13 2000
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Demon (DVD)
Terrible 1979 slasher flick starring Cameron Mitchell as an investigator (with ESP!) searching for a faceless murderer who is preying on young girls. There's lots of talking but very little action. If you can manage to stay awake until the end, at least you can watch the killer chase a naked blonde around. The plot is just like every other slasher film made during the late 70's/early 80's except that THE DEMON is memorable for one thing -- the killer wears a glove with blades on the fingers (years before Freddy Krueger made it chic!). The worst part of the movie watching experience is that the DVD is presented full-frame (not widescreen) and the print that was used to make the transfer was extremely dark. Watch John Carpenter's highly superior HALLOWEEN instead.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Can't imagine that restored print will make this any better, Sep 27 2010
By S. Boone "TheatreX" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Demon (DVD)
I have this movie on DVD (Diamond Entertainment, purchased at Meijers for very cheap a few years ago) and I watched it last night because I saw a preview for the VCI version while watching one of their other recent releases the other day. Remastered, restored, widescreen, uncut...can any of those possibly make this a better movie? No....maybe re-cast, re-directed, re-written, re-thought, yeah, perhaps one of those, but not any technical stuff. Overall this is just a rather dull film, about some guy, with seemingly better-than-average strength and perhaps even some supernatural powers, but none of that is ever explored or explained. And Cameron Mitchell appears as an ex-Marine with ESP out to find the killer, but without going into too much detail, he doesn't, and one wonders what the point of him even being in the film seemed to be. It can be almost interesting at points, and no, I don't mean just the points where the females leads are topless, although it does help some. But the whole film is just feels a bit vague and sketchy, and the motives and the identity of the killer are never explained.
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