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One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

I've heard some people complain about the poor quality of the copies of this film, but that's one of its finer aspects. And the nighttime scenery in whichever large city this is in. The beautiful pan to the high rise apartment where our hero Dean Turner has taken Jo...then they take us inside where we get a look at Dean's phenomenal bachelor pad. he's got the sweet couch and lighting, a stocked bar in a dark room, and "the ladies room is that way....the bedroom is that way too." And don't forget his hi fi record player with easy listening mood music. I don't care how much this subplot diverges from the main one- it's my favorite part, and it makes you care about these two characters as they are about to get married towards the end. The first we see of the Demon after his opening kill is the hitching scene, which is a cool little dark scene as well....the dialogue is funny small talk "I guess I do go on a bit....." "Even my mother thinks I'm on the other side.." "Hey don't let me scare you" This is a very interesting slasher from a formula standpoint. We are introduced to the victim's parents and Mitchell at the beginning, and all three characters are abandoned later in favor of the schoolteachers... Jennifer Holmes' old neighbor is funny too. A film that you can't miss if you're a horror fan.

The Demon was a film that used both American and British players, but was shot in South Africa. This was an effort by the apartheid government to bring the movie business to their country as a place films could be shot in. After losing 93 minutes of my life I won't get back watching The Demon, I'm still trying to figure out what I saw. There's this guy stalking and killing people who wears a flesh like mask, the better not to read his character.The most well known name in the cast is shot and killed because Cameron Mitchell rubs the woman that hired him the wrong way. He's the guy who is a combination cop and psychic who will bring The Demon down. After that I was totally lost.Hopefully the Mandela government and his successors are doing better by the South African film industry.

The Demon is a South African Halloween clone about a motiveless serial killer who suffocates his victims with clear plastic bags. To be honest, it's a pretty shoddy effort in many ways but it's definitely not without merits either. In some respects one of this movie's chief problems is also inadvertently one of its strengths. The issue in question is how confusingly structured it all is. Characters are linked together only via the killer, and he is, to put it mildly, very vaguely defined himself. So the film has a very disjointed feel to it. While I can't see this as having been intentional, it does have a strange dream-like effect where we have this weird pale-faced amorphous figure appearing at various times with no fathomable reason. The Demon himself is a decent villain, as he has a good air of mystery about him, partly due to the fact that he is given absolutely no history or motivation. He is masked like Michael Myers in a white faceless mask although this mask does seem to appear and disappear between shots which must surely qualify as a pretty monumental goof. His killing method is bloodless but unusual enough for some credit. Although quite honestly even if there were buckets of the red stuff you would be doing well to even notice seeing as the lighting in this production is terrible. Too many scenes are played in almost total darkness, so you only have an impression of what's going on. Fortunately, we are able to make out the finale which is a lengthy scene involving the Demon chasing a topless girl around a house – it's clichéd but this sort of stuff never really gets old. The only name actor is Cameron Mitchell who plays a psychic colonel who is helping track down the killer. But he only ultimately has a bit part in the film and exits the picture in a very memorably sudden and unexpected way.Despite it's shortcomings I did quite enjoy this one. It may have been poorly put together but it did have some tense scenes, and some interesting moments. It's worth a look if you enjoy trashy horror flicks.

After home invasion and kidnapping of a young girl an older couple decides to hire a mystic(Cameron Mitchell)with extrasensory perception to find missing child.There is also demonic strangler on the loose,who kills some victims and stalks a nursery school teacher."The Demon" is "Halloween" clone from South Africa.The climax resembles John Carpenter's dark house stalk with the exception of the Strode-like blonde teacher running topless in panties around the house and locking herself in the bathroom to finally defeat her masked stalker with a pair of scissors."The Demon" is slow-moving and lacks suspense and gore.Still it's watchable enough to give it 6 out of 10.