Average Rating: 3.4/10
Reviews Counted: 6
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 5
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Release Date: Jan 1, 1986 Wide
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Richard Franklin directed this horror film that plays like Jane Goodall in Gaslight. Elisabeth Shue is Jane Chase, a graduate student in zoology who volunteers to help Dr. Steven Phillip (Terence Stamp), a professor at the university, with his animal studies. Arriving at his mansion, she is greeted by Link, a orangutan dressed in a monkey suit. Jane gets to know Link and Dr. Phillip's other chimp charges, Imp and Voodoo. One day Dr. Phillip goes to town, supposedly to sell Voodoo, but instead,
Jan 1, 1986 Wide
Aug 21, 2001
HBO Video
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Given Hollywood's sketchy record with monkey movies, Link compares relatively well and rates as moderately successful.
A head-scratcher: a movie so abominable from start to finish that it's headache-inducing, and more puzzling for its existence than for any of its numerous purported twists.
Unfortunately it's never as creepy as the poster, but it does come close. Link sees Elisabeth Shue take a job minding Stamp's cottage where 3 apes live. An elderly domineering female, a youngling hat can communicate via a computer, and an old geezer dressed as a butler. The latter, known as Link, soon becomes a bit
June 25, 2011Super Reviewer
It's sort of like a prequel to Sunset Blvd. One of the most unusual creature features I've ever seen.
April 19, 2007Super Reviewer
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