The Demon (1981)
4/10
Zoli Marki is gorgeous
12 September 2007
Warning: Spoilers
This South African flick seems like two short films (maybe even unfinished films?) strung together, with no connection between either one of them. The first part of the movie was about a missing girl and a psychic guy trying to find her and her abductor. The psychic is just filler material, as he's killed probably a half an hour before the ending of the movie. Most of the photography in the first few scenes consists of single, unedited master shots (wide angle) with very little in the way of editing, which is why I say that it looks almost like an unfinished film. Then a second movie dealing with a killer stalking another girl starts up, with no obvious connection between the two. Better photographed but still dark, we mostly see two hot girls going about their daily lives in stupefyingly boring detail. One hour and 13 minutes into this 90 minute movie it does kind of pick up, with a little bit of suspense, albeit the climax is just stupid: a nude girl wearing a shower curtain over her head stabs the killer with a pair of scissors after blinding him by spritzing him with a shower nozzle?! What?

The dark haired girl (Zoli Marki) is gorgeous, and the blonde girl (whose name I can't figure out) is also cute and has very sexy green eyes, and they both appear topless several times throughout- that, and the little bit of suspense in the last 15 minutes is all this movie had going for it. The fact that the killer is never identified doesn't help matters either, he's just another anonymous killer in a mask (which appears and disappears between shots) stalking 20-something year old girls for no apparent reason. Congratulations to anyone who can figure out what the title has to do with the movie, because the "demon" in the title was just some guy in a mask wearing some kind of claw thing on his hands.
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