Review of The Demon

The Demon (1981)
5/10
Below Average South African Slasher.
21 November 2020
A serial killer is plaguing the South African countryside, killing indiscriminately.

Using a plastic bag to suffocate people.

However, when one girl gets kidnapped by this monster, her family hires a medium, who possesses the power of ESP...with hopes that he might be able to provide them with answers, where the police have failed.

Through his process, the medium discerns that the man responsible for this series of heinous acts, is a human aberration.

A demon, in the flesh.

The girl's mother just wants her daughter back.

But her father wants vengeance.

The medium uses his powers to get inside the man's head.

To become him, in a sense.

All while this devil continues to prey on the innocent and unsuspecting.

There's just one problem...he can never manage to see the man's face.

The question is...is he even a man?

Or, rather, a shadow being, that is so evil, it is able to manifest itself into a physical form?

Either way, two beautiful young primary school teachers seem to be this vicious killer's next targets.

Just as the missing girl's father uses the information provided by the medium to track this evil entity, in the form of a man, down.

However, he does not heed the warning that, if he were to do this, he would not come back alive...

Thus, as one person after another dies...only one person he has targeted remains alive.

So, it is up to them, to stop this demonic force, before he kills anyone else.

It's not exactly the most engaging slasher of all-time.

Though, it has a spooky atmosphere, that is both dark and brooding.

The end does have a decent amount of action.

But, as far as slashers go, it's only about the middle of the field.

5 out of 10.
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