To me, this movie is perfection.

A Masterpiece!

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

Yes, this review definitely contains some spoilers. But this movie is so inconsequential, there's not much here to even 'spoil'! Made in the wake of Halloween, and covers some of the same territory. Starts out fairly well, with a teenage girl abducted, and her parents seek the help of a retired Marine colonel who happens to have ESP and apparently has assisted police on past cases. Okay, ex-Marine... and perennial "tough guy" Cameron Mitchell... yeah, this could at least have possibilities. Aside from Cameron Mitchell's usual hammy performance, so far so good. Shades of the old 1972 TV series "The Sixth Sense" (which starred Gary Collins as the psychic investigator). Cameron Mitchell goes around the the kidnapped girl's room, touching things, and picking up vibes and visions and so forth. Again, not too bad... yet.Mitchell senses the girl is dead, but then starts telling the distraught parents that he thinks the killer is a "demon" and spouting malarkey like "He's less than a man... but more than a man"... and this movie starts to sink. What are the parents to think of this nonsense? He provides the vengeance-seeking father with just enough clues for the father to seek out the killer (alone, BTW. Our heroic ESP ex-Marine is nowhere to be found by then). The father is of course killed, himself -- which Cameron Mitchell had warned him of, obviously to no avail. Then in the most pointless scene in the movie, Cameron Mitchell returns to the parents' house, babbling to the mother about "the time of the demon" is now beginning. The mother cuts him off, telling him she thinks he's a phony and a coward (and insinuating maybe he even killed her husband). Then she pulls out a gun and shoots poor Cameron dead! Exit Cameron Mitchell... Exit any coherence in the story-line.At this point, the plot swings over to two women living together (I think the younger one is the niece of the older one, or something like that), who also work together at the same school. We then get treated to like 45 minutes of them, and their relationships with a couple of guys, which is boring in the extreme. We see a few "menacing" shots of the psycho killer outside the school, and at a store where one of them is shopping. These people are so blah that the audience never feels "engaged" in their lives, and consequently couldn't care less what happens to them. Okay, the producers DO throw in some topless scenes, I guess to try and maintain some interest level with the audience. Man, but talk about your "gratuitous" nudity...Finally, just as we're getting to "know and care about" these women (lol), the killer strikes. (After nearly falling asleep, all I could think of was: "about damned time!"). First he dispatches the younger one and her boyfriend with ease. Then in typical slasher-movie fashion, this seemingly ultra-competent psycho can't finish off the last intended victim. She runs around the house for 15 minutes, alternately screaming or trying to hide, and always evading him. Meanwhile some old coot of a neighbor hears the ruckus, talks about it for awhile with his sleepy wife, but in the end does nothing about it. (More 'time filler'?). Our "heroine" manages to lay a clever trap for the psycho in the bathroom, spreading slippery shampoo and turning a water hose from the sink onto the floor. The killer breaks in, slips, and goes right onto the scissors she's holding. He falls into the bathtub and expires. The gal runs out of the house as her boyfriend shows up, and the end credits roll.That's it??? We don't even get the "obligatory" twist ending? So this 'oh-so-menacing' killer was nothing but the standard psycho, and all Cameron Mitchell's talk of demons and the supernatural was just a red herring? As one IMDb reviewer noted, it's almost like they started off in one direction, then half-way thru the film they 'changed gears' entirely, and we end up with a whole different movie. Yet what they ended up with is a total bore-fest. Do yourself a favor and skip this one... it's really not worth an hour and a half of your time.

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.

What a mess this one is! This South African production appears to be two movies put together with only the relation to the "Demon" connecting both the stories. The first part of the film concerns the family of Emily Parker who was kidnapped during an evening home invasion by a tall man that may or may not wear a mask and may or may not have gloves with blades sewn onto the ends of the fingertips even though he chooses to strangle his victims anyway. Confused yet? Yeah, this is a real doozy. Anyway, the Parkers enlist the aid of Col. Bill Carson (B-movie royalty Cameron Mitchell slumming for a paycheck so he can afford some Capetown prostitutes one would guess) a former Marine with ESP who can pick up the "vibes as the kids like to say" of the crime. This begins Col. Carson's bizarre trances and seemingly useless psychic drivel, "he's less than a man, yet more than one - much more". Thanks, that really helps. At one point Carson has a creepy extrasensory wet dream in Emily's room complete with tearing pieces of her clothing and sniffing them while sweating profusely. Luckily he didn't find her panty drawer. Mrs. Parker becomes apprehensive when Carson turns up no leads as her husband seems more concerned with catching the kidnapper rather than finding his daughter. Mr. Parker pursues the killer to his apartment thanks to a vision Carson had and is promptly dispatched by the hulking madman. When Carson returns to the Parker residence to speak with the newly widowed Mrs. Parker he is shot in the head for no reason whatsoever. You trusted a psychic instead of the police, what the hell did you expect? Maybe, I dunno, you're fired? Thus ends the Col. Carson/Parker storyline with about a half hour to go.The bulk of the movie centers on Mary, an American teacher that is being followed a la Halloween by the Demon/Strangler/badguy whatever. Mary works with her eighteen year old cousin Jo who speaks curiously with a South Afrikan accent. Jo is dating some rich American playboy which is useless to the plot yet gets a stunning amount of screen time instead of establishing why the killer has targeted Mary and what motivates him to murder various customers of the town's redlight district. I appreciate the fact that the various nude scenes placed throughout the film were added strictly for the American version as both ladies' extended nude scenes broke up the monotony of the bloodless murders and boring date footage (What, no mini golf scene?). It doesn't matter as all the attention paid to Jo's courtship are dashed when she's murdered anyway along with her new boyfriend. Mary is a little clueless as well. If some beast of a man was stalking you would you fling the front door open in the middle of the night at the slightest knock? Mary does quite frequently. The finale features the Demon sometimes in a mask and sometimes not toying with Mary suddenly when he killed every other victim quickly allowing her to escape through the house wearing just her panties. Can't say I'm complaining but I'm just a lowbrow American. (Smiling wryly)The editing is so disjointed that it's hard to get your bearings while watching this train wreck. Scenes such as the waves crashing into the shoreline rocks appear here and there for no explicable reason that I could see. At one point two boys playing soldier stumble upon a skeleton in a tree with a blonde wig on it. Who the hell is that supposed to be? There is no insight into the Demon as well. Was he really a supernatural force or just some psycho that grunted and growled a lot? The movie never gives a clear answer. Cameron Mitchell's gonzo performance is one of the only saving graces of this movie. He's just so over the top with his psychic theatrics. Hope that check didn't bounce Cam. Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to this disco that's right up my alley.

Wow, I have never disagreed more with the reviewers on this site. This movie is excellent. Not in a so-bad-it's-good way; it's just flat-out one of the best horror films ever. Though billed as a straight-up slasher film, this one has a lot of things going on beneath the surface that make it rise beyond the mediocrity of the late-70's-era slasher genre. I believe this should actually be referred to as an under-the-radar giallo gem rather than lump it in with your Freddy Kreugers and Jason Vorhees and other slasher joke characters.A lot of the problem people seem to have with this movie involves the non-reveal of who the demon is. Well, I'm about to reveal to you all the startling answer to this question: the demon is, in fact, the DEMON. .. that's the whole point of the movie! That's who he is! He's the demon! He's the personification of evil. Questioning his motivations is silly; it's obvious what he wants to do -- he wants to kill people. The movie never reveals why or where the demon came from, but does it really matter? Let me just say that he came from Flint, Michigan and he is killing people because Pee Wee Herman drank the last Faygo; does that make the movie better for everyone? Anyway, what's interesting to me about this movie is the mood it creates. The movie is very dark, but it's never so dark you can't tell what's going on. It's not like the whole movie is filmed in the woods with no light or something. The darkness is important to the movie and that combined with the music creates a mood that is rarely ever seen in horror films. The "hero" of the film, the character with ESP, is a great actor and it's even more shocking what happens to him.The kill scenes are great, and I always took the character of the demon seriously. This film isn't played for laughs at all; yet at the same time, it's not so ridiculously gory, brutal, and mean-spirited that you can't have any fun watching this. Artfully shot, genuinely creepy, a perfect length, well-acted, full of surprises, great pacing, and a hot teacher running around in just her panties: honestly, what's not to like? HIGHLY recommended. For fans of movies like "Bell from Hell" and "Don't Go in the House".(As a side note, everyone I've ever showed this movie to has liked it. Strange. Different strokes, I guess?)