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ACTOR
Jennifer HolmesCameron MitchellCraig GardnerZoli Marki
DIRECTOR
Percival Rubens
SYNOPSICS
The Demon (1979) is a English movie. Percival Rubens has directed this movie. Jennifer Holmes,Cameron Mitchell,Craig Gardner,Zoli Marki are the starring of this movie. It was released in 1979. The Demon (1979) is considered one of the best Horror movie in India and around the world.
Similiar to HALLOWEEN and BLACK CHRISTMAS (which no doubt influenced the writer/director) this film deals with a series of bizarre murders and the unexplained stalking of the main characters by an unidentified man with no apparent motives.
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The Demon (1979) Reviews
Ever See a Naked Woman Try to Crawl Out of an Attic Window?
Neither have I until I saw The Demon. The Demon is an interesting picture and a poor picture. It has a script which just does not not make much sense. We have a story about some guy that goes around brutally killing young women and others and as a much smaller story - a psychic that is red-hot on his tail. Redhot? Cameron Mitchell plays the psychic and his presence is sorely needed for the film's credibility, yet he is barely in the picture. And yet, even though his character and dialog were quite ridiculous - especially what happens to him and the one-liner that follows - I thought he was the best thing in the picture. The demon is never explained at all in terms of why he is killing, why he is a "demon" if indeed he/it really is, or what any motivation is. He just likes killing with brutal coldness. Fortunately, the movie, filmed in England and with largely a British cast, is competently conceived in several ways. The acting rises above poor and is decent. The director - Percival Rubens who also wrote this nonsense - has some talent in creating some suspenseful scenes and a sense of tension. The scenes with the girl being chased in the house were fairly effective, despite the needless nudity. After awhile we got the point. But the script is just so awful and threadbare as to limit the film to anything other than garbled, ludicrous nonsense. At the very least, the film is watchable and will/should have you arching your eye brows trying to figure out what in the heck is going on. And listen closely to Mitchell's dialog - he and it are a real hoot!
I don't get it
I just didn't get this movie. The identity of "The Demon" is never explained. His motives are never explained. The nature of his very existence is never explained. It's never made clear whether he is a "demon" in the traditional sense of the word, or just a really mean man who, although he wears gloves outfitted with metal claws, prefers to kill people by sticking ziplock baggies on their heads. Odd subplots and diversions abound, the South African setting is completely arbitrary, and a general feeling of "why was this movie made" lingers. The "demon," by the way, looks like Charles Grodin and wears a rubber mask, even though his identity isn't an issue. It's never explained why blond American Jennifer Holmes has a brunette South African cousin or why she's even in the country in the first place. This film is as obscure as they come and is almost always omitted in reference books and it's no wonder why.
Pretty, half-naked school teachers do not exactly a great movie make....
(**1/2 out of *****) Very strange and disjointed film (though, I'll admit, I think I dozed once or twice during crucial scenes) about a sub-human serial killer who uses razor-tipped gloves and plastic bags to kill people. The soundtrack is very loud and erratic and people are always screaming, which makes sleeping straight through this often-dull movie pretty difficult. It ends rather abruptly and offers little to no explanation for the killer's identity or motivation. We never even get to see what his face looks like under his mask. But, even with these setbacks, the direction shows some flair and there are a few frightening demon-attack scenes, especially at the end. Cameron Mitchell plays a psychic detective on the case of a missing girl abducted by the demon, and Jennifer Holmes plays the pretty blonde schoolteacher who gets chased through her house in just her panties in the suspenseful climax (I was wide awake for that part.) HIGHLIGHT: The pretty blonde schoolteacher gets chased through her house in just her panties (what else?)
What a disjointed, sloppy mess...
I recently saw this movie in a video store, for sale, on DVD (for only $5.99). Thank God, I did`nt buy it. I ended up renting it, for a buck, a week later and wished I had`nt done that either. The first part of the movie deals with a man, the "Demon", abducting a 14 year old girl and murdering her. When the parents can`t find her (dead or alive) they enlist the services of an ex-marine colonel with ESP no less (Cameron Mitchell). Mitchell`s overacting aside the movie has some flow at this point but not for long. It quickly becomes a disjointed mess as it jumps completely away from it`s beginning plot. I kept getting the sense that they started a movie and after getting so far into it they decided the plot was`nt working so they scrapped their original idea and went for something else but left in the footage they had already shot. After breaking away from the Esp aspect (plot) the movie jumps from one plot to another until they decide to mercifully end the movie as well as the watchers misery.
Great movie!
I rented "The Demon" expecting it to be sort of lame. (I know, you wonder, why would I rent it if I thought it was lame?) Well, I wanted to just give it a chance, anyhow. And I was quite surprised. A man only known as the demon to the viewer stalks and kills various women. There are three real plots to this. One is the one that starts in the beginning. A family is attacked by the demon, leading to the mother attempted to be killed, and the teenage daughter captured. After that, the demon begins to stalk a young school teacher named Mary. She seems him various places, but at times, he disappears right before her eyes, and then is back again. She begins to get more agitated when she starts getting creepy phone calls, and the neighbor sees someone creeping around outside her home. Meanwhile, an old Marine colonel with ESP (which I usually am not interested in, but liked) tries to find where the daughter is, and further more, where the killer may be. The only clue is perhaps the hotel the demon lives. During that time, there are about two attack scenes that don't fit in. One is a pretty scary one with a woman in an alley, which is then added to by two motorcyclists that come by and happen to upset the demon. A really great scene. The other is at the hotel, and made even less sense. But let it slide. Mary's cousin begins seeing a man, and another plot is formed. It worked well, because the characters actually had something to them, and they were more than cannon fodder. And the demon begins watching the cousin, too. There is one murder you never expected. It's between the mother of the captured teenage girl and the colonel. A very good scene and great twist. The end is an exciting and quite innovative climax. And then it all ends rather abruptly, but in a good way. The climax is long, but the end of it just seems to end it. Though, the end is one of the best. A reminder of the ending to "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" or "Eaten Alive" (Tobe Hooper), with constant screaming and terror. A quite good movie. It probably takes an aquired taste to really like it. I'm sure many would find this bad. But I suggest giving it a good chance. You may be pleasantly surprised.