Andy McGregor Actually, although it fits that sub-genre and quite clearly is attempting to copy the associated clichés and tropes, technically no such slashing or gore actually takes place. Obvious similarities to other movies aside, clearly some attempt was made to be even a little different in it's structure and approach. Suffocation, the masked killer's preferred M.O., actually comes across very effectively and gives the film at least a hint of originality. His preference for stalking and terrorising young, pretty girls is fortunate from a voyeur perspective and so occasionally we are treated to a bit of nudity, purely exploitatively of course!To say Cameron Mitchell was under-used in this film would be a huge understatement; his untimely and inexplicable end comes all too abruptly to have felt the remotest emotional investment in his character. Not that we do with any of the array of The Demon's victims, who all act frustratingly random and stupid, although somehow ironically this propels the action further by giving it a bizarre and unpredictable quality.Shots of apparent action in complete darkness and cut-aways of waves crashing on a beach only hinder the already confusing and disjointed plot; it was seemingly structured and edited by a mad-man! And don't get me started on the insane script!Overall, what this movie lacks in technical value, appears to gain in atmosphere and individuality (which helps a bit considering it's a shameless Halloween rip-off). It's not a terrible movie, it's just not that well done.

HumanoidOfFlesh 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.

dbborroughs Cameron Mitchel is listed as starring in, but in fact barely appears in this story of a maniac stalking and killing women.Confused and confusing story kind of builds a little bit of suspense but to me, at the late hour I was watching it, found it more fragments of a film then something that holds together. This is the sort of film that would have been a direct to video release if it were made now. Then again I picked this up in the dollar bin so its even lower than that. I don't know what else to say other than its just sort of there. For Cameron Mitchell fans only.3 out of 10

sol (There may be Spoilers) Looking as if it's two different movies, both ridicules, rolled into one "The Demon" is about as mindless of a film that you'll ever come across and so badly constructed that it wouldn't even make it on the Mystery Science 3000 bad movie TV show. Cameron Mitchell obviously needing a paycheck and a free vacation in sunny Capetown South Africa plays this psychic detective Col. Bill Carson hired to both find the kidnapped daughter, Emily, of Mr & Mrs Parker, Peter J. Elliot & Molra Winslow, and the person who kidnapped her. Having been abducted by this faceless psycho Emily is feared to have been killed and the killer is expected to come back to the Parker home to finish the job, murdering the entire family, that he at first started.Carson showing up at the Parker house goes into some kind of mombo-jumbo act getting on all fours sniffing and licking, just like a bloodhound, objects as well as ripping up the sheets and pillow cases with his teeth in and around Emily's room. Carson comes up with this startling conclusion to who, he's sure that she's been murdered, Emily's killer is saying this about him as if he's in awe of the killer : "He's less then a man and at the same time more much more", whatever that means.Mr. Parker figuring out just where he can find the killer, from a number of Carson's psychic drawings, goes it alone to this creepy hotel in downtown Capetown only to get himself killed by the killer who catches him by surprise. Later a boy playing solider in the woods finds the skeletal remains of Emily's body hidden up on a tree. Mrs Parker is so pi**ed off at Carson for him and his meddling getting her husband killed that when he comes over to pays his respects she shoots the startled psychic right between the eyes. After all that we never see her or anyone else involved with the Parkers and Carson again in the movie.The same killer, or what seems to be him, is then seen stalking this kindergarten teacher Mary, Jennifer Holmes, and after a few minutes you get the impression that your watching a double-feature with Mary and the persons that she's associated with having nothing at all to do with Col. Carson and the Parkers! In fact Mary looks as if she's in another movie altogether! We never see her and the Parker's or Col. Carson together or even as much as even mention them! Going first after Mary then her young cousin Jo, Zoli Markl, as well as her poor little rich boyfriend Dean, Craig Gardner, the unseen and unknown serial killer is given no reason, or attempt, to murder them other then kill them off to raise the body-count.Eariler, after murdering Mr. Parker, the killer for some reason goes on a rampage in the Capetown night-club and red-light district attacking and possibly murdering a number of persons, workers and tourists, including a go-go dancer for no reason at all but what seems for him to keep in shape for the films climatic bloodbath!Like in most slasher films the killer, wearing what looks like a transparent rubber mask, goes into action murdering almost everyone in the cast which are the people in the second half of the movie. Only the plucky and topless Mary, who after getting away from him, surprises the psycho in her bathroom sticking him in the throat with a pair of scissors and shoving him into the overflowing bathtub where he eventually drowns.Were given the impression when the movie ends that the killer survived, together with his mask, and is soon going to be back to haunt and terrorize us yet again in a sequel! After some 25 years after "The Demon" was released we can all now be certain that isn't about to happen now or any time soon and we can all thank God for that!