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People are voting emotionally.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

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

When I started watching The Demon (on a poor quality VHS rip on youtube) I was initially surprised at how enjoyable I found it, considering the IMDb score is so low. As the film went on and I was still enjoying it, I began to think it could only have such a low score if it all went terribly downhill towards the end.Well, it does.The first hour is pretty interesting and engaging. I found the desperate couple employing an ex-soldier with ESP to help find their daughter and the killer and intriguing set up and I equally liked the 2 female school teachers when the story switched over to them. There were, of course, many flaws in this low budget affair but for the first hour it was a good watch. Some freaky suffocation scenes and a mysterious, almost supernatural, killer also added to the entertainment level.However, the last 30 minutes or so ruins the whole thing. Firstly, for some reason there were 2 parallel story lines in this film. One was the parents of a missing girl who hired the guy with ESP to find the daughter and killer. The other was about a schoolteacher who keeps seeing the killer hanging around outside her school. Now, I thought the 2 story lines were going to tie up somehow but they didn't. They were just 2 separate story lines only liked by the killer. This gave the film a completely unfocused feel – who was the main character supposed to be? Who was the film about? Towards the end, when the father finds the killer but gets killed, and the mother – completely randomly and illogically – shoots the ESP guy they hired, it all starts to fall apart. You suddenly realise that these 3 characters were completely unnecessary to the plot as they did nothing! The fact that the film introduces this ESP guy early on, then has him killed when he's not even done anything, reveals poor writing, a lack of focus and just a completely pointless character and subplot.Then for the rest of the end sequences, it's the killer in the house of the school teacher, chasing her around. It ends with a ridiculous scenario that results in the woman killing the killer, involving her spraying a shower in his face. The she stabs him, he dies and the credits roll. No idea why he went after her or who he was or anything. Odd.

This isn't THAT bad--not as forlorn as some movies you might find in the lowest-end $1.00 DVD slimline discount realm--but it is a bit of a jumble, suggesting that (one possible scenario) they kept changing the script focus as they shot, then ran out of money before they could film everything that would pull it all together. So a lot of strands just hang there, with only the one about the two stalked schoolteachers developed fully. The weak transfer quality (probably from a cheap VHS source) means some scenes are too dark for one to tell what's going on, but that's just one more way in which the movie turns periodically incoherent. (The most obvious WTF element being the way in which the killer or demon or whatever randomly does/doesn't wear a mask & claws, often within a single scene.) The very abrupt and senseless ending (which also cuts off most of the closing credits) doesn't explain anything--was the killer just some nut? a malevolent spirit? why did he/it target (mostly) young women? was there some evil ritual involved? You don't get the feeling these things are intentionally left "ambiguous," but rather that materials somehow got left out that would have actually given the movie a point.Yep, all signs indicate this film had some production problems that resulted in a very slapdash assembly. Still, it's watchable. While the young leads are OK (and the girls often gratuitously topless--can anyone explain to me why the heroine decides to drop her robe for the climactic scene?), the older actors are often amusingly bad, esp. the grieving parents and in particular Cameron Mitchell, whose early sequences are hammy even by his standards.

The Demon really doesn't have much going for it. The lighting is awful, dialogue is ridiculous in some spots, and some things in it just make no sense (you've got to love the random shots of waves crashing onto rocks).At least at the beginning there's something slightly different going on. The killer kidnaps a family's daughter and so they enlist the help of a psychic gifted with ESP (Cameron Mitchell). Now, I'd like to think that Mitchell is a good actor but it's really hard to judge when he's given ridiculous things to do and say ("I get feelings sometimes. Vibes, as the kids might say.")Sure, it's not very good at all, but the least they could have done was not abandon this part of the story. Cameron and the kidnapping plot end up almost being dropped completely, leading us to the story that takes over the rest of the film.Ever hear the one about the guy in the white mask who stalks some girls?Yeah, that happens here too. To be fair, this portion isn't as bad despite being a blatant ripoff. The girls are decent at acting and serve the dual purpose of being easy on the eyes. There's a few suspenseful scenes and the climax isn't all that bad despite being completely wacky. That doesn't make up for everything else, though. In the end, The Demon mostly just provides moments of boredom and stupidity.