Nice effects though.

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

This film is originally from 1979 the re-released in 1981. It's know by two different titles: "The Demon" and "Midnight Caller".This one started out good, went to boring, back to interesting, back to boring then got good again in the end of the film. It's sorta a roller-coaster ride in entertainment value. It's NOT a good film but it is mildly entertaining.As others have mentioned this one is kind of a poor man's Halloween in the way we have a Slasher in a mask (this one likes to wear gloves with cat-like nails or claws on the end of them) and we have a Dr. Loomis type of character hunting him down (but this guy has ESP on top of it).As far as The Demon goes - they really don't say if he is an actual supernatural demon OR just meaning he's a really bad guy (a murderer). I thought he was just a psychotic human murderer but at the end of the film you hear demonic noises (the bathroom scene) - I'm not sure if it was just suppose to be part of the music score OR if those sounds were suppose to be coming from the murderer. Maybe the film makers decided to leave that to our imagination.4/10

I am not going to call the film "deep" but there was definitely more to it, then meets the eye. You have read the previous reviews, I take it; Nudity, no motive, too dark, yadda yadda! True enough, some of it for the better (bare breasts) some for the worse, "dark and hard to see". I thought the film decent and moody. 1) Why the sea ? Brooding waves hitting the coast, water symbolizes emotions, there they come crashing in the dark. It may not work because of the repetition, but it is a "poetic" touch. I thought at first that the demon might have had some watery significance, but as with many other visual keys thrown into this film, it was, if you will pardon the pun, a red herring. Those who think this film was mindlessly thrown together are mistaken. They compare the film to Halloween. The similarities are there, but not so pronounced. More to the point, the film plays more like Hitchcock; The unexpected death of a protagonist midway through, the misleading direction of both the plot and the cinematography. For example, The killer at first is presented as a possible pedophile, and later there there are lots of shots with children.Did you notice how often the director used the devise of pulling away from the subject at the end of a scene, and focusing on some window or door, as if one would expect to see something the actor missed. The end was particularly intriguing, Major time to bale if you don't want to read the spoiler, but in truth its the point of my review;Re-track the last five minutes, yes the nudity was a positive aspect, it showed the vulnerability, of the heroine, just as in Psycho. Being naked with a killer chasing you is the worst of ones fears. But then something peculiar happens, The stalker does not kill her when it had many chances. Mary is emboldened, and lures the killer onward, she actually turns off the lights in the room she is in, This seems to break the lore of horror film logic. Whats more, she is not terrified, even after finding the body of her friend, she has a plan. I have replayed three times the last minutes of the film, here I look for the demon to reveal himself. He breaks into the bathroom, and is taken off guard by the water, Mary uses the opportunity to stab him in the neck, she spins him around and throws him into the water filled tub, she is not screaming, In fact she is flushed with her victory, and then she sees something, and she starts to scream, we get a shot of the killer in the tub with the scissor in his neck, then we get a shot of his face, only this time we see he is wearing a mask. Mary shrieks and runs out of the house screaming as her friends car pulls in the driveway. One more shot of the killer, this time there is just his mask, with darkness where the eyes should be, was he a supernatural demon after all? flash on the titles. Very good,a most interesting, obscure little film.

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.

Without getting into personalities, it's another film about a psychotic killer. These people are pretty much machines in these movies. The thing you need to do is pick vulnerable women, get to know them and their lives, and then thrown this guy in. He kills some, some he doesn't. There is also some superfluous nudity and titillation for the adolescents. But the film is just pretty dull. The copy I had was so full of dropouts and forced pauses that it just wears on. The real detractor is the darkness. Was the original print so dark. There are times when 20 seconds pass and we can't really see anything happening. There are things happening, but you get the point. This is so much like so many threat films that it offers little new to the viewer.