{"id":30097,"date":"2026-02-15T15:14:51","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T15:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattshorroraddiction.com\/?p=30097"},"modified":"2026-02-15T15:14:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T15:14:51","slug":"the-demon-flavia-the-heretic-link","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matt.doppiavvu.it\/?p=30097","title":{"rendered":"The Demon, Flavia the Heretic, Link"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Demon <\/strong>– 1981, South Africa, 92m. Director: Percival Rubens <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Flavia, the Heretic<\/strong> – 1974, France\/Italy, 94m. Director: Gianfranco Mingozzi<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Link<\/strong> – 1986, UK, 103m. Director: Richard Franklin <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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THE DEMON<\/em><\/strong> (1981) <\/em>A silly South African maniac-on-the-loose Halloween<\/em> clone in which ex-marine-turned-psychic-investigator Cameron Mitchell hunts an unstoppable killer sporting razor-tipped gloves. Jennifer Holmes is the innocent schoolteacher the madman stalks and terrorizes with heavy-breathing phone calls. Mitchell is the Donald Pleasance\/Sam Loomis of the film, obsessed in stopping the killer he refers to as “less than a man.” When he’s not dilly-dallying in dark alleyways, the killer tears up pictures of centerfolds in a failed attempt by the writers to give the character depth. The maniac is stopped in his tracks by the sound of a spoken Bible verse from a nearby radio, suggesting some kind of demonic influence\u2014or a hatred of gospel programs. Mitchell is callously killed off (and not by the maniac) halfway through the film, proving just how pointless all of this nonsense is. A bloodless, disjointed mess that went unreleased in the States until 1985. D <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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FLAVIA, THE HERETIC<\/em><\/strong> (1974)<\/em> (AKA: Flavia, Priestess of Violence<\/em>) Born into a life of servitude at the turn of the fifteenth century, young Flavia (Florinda Bolkan) slowly rebels against the strict nunnery her father placed her in as a child. After expressing hormonal urges, her friend and fellow sister is subjected to torture at the hands of Flavia’s cruel father (Diego Michelotti), who spills boiling tar on the woman before cutting off her nipples. Flavia escapes her harsh reality and joins forces with an invading Muslim army, trading her habit for armor and steel. She orders several Muslim men to give a Catholic rapist a taste of his own medicine before slashing his throat and bleeding him like a pig. Flavia’s bloodthirsty revenge culminates in the murder of her father and destruction of the convent\u2014a monk’s brutal impalement via spear through the rectum is just additional gratuitous violence for the gore lover. Her fate is eventually sealed by the surviving Catholics, who brand her a heretic and skin her alive in an appropriately gruesome ending to this better than usual nunsploitation epic. C<\/strong>+<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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LINK<\/em><\/strong> (1986)<\/em> A zoology student (Elisabeth Shue) takes an assistant’s position to an arrogant professor (Terence Stamp) at his country estate, where he lives with three chimps he’s researching, including ex-circus performer Link. Stamp treats Link as a servant, which rubs Shue the wrong way\u2014especially when Link begins acting erratically by trying to burn the place down with matches and later brutally killing a dog. After Stamp mysteriously disappears, Link’s aggression hits a boiling point and Shue is trapped in the house with the psychotic chimp. A silly screenplay is treated well thanks to director Richard Franklin’s (Psycho II<\/em>) eye for suspense\u2014especially during the third act\u2014and an appealing turn by Shue, who doesn’t play the role as a whimpering coward but as a smart and believable character. It’s no King Kong<\/em> but Link<\/em> is enjoyable enough for the offbeat simian-horror admirer. B<\/strong>–<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Demon – 1981, South Africa, 92m. Director: Percival Rubens Flavia, the Heretic – 1974, France\/Italy, 94m. Director: Gianfranco Mingozzi Link – 1986, UK, 103m. Director: Richard Franklin THE DEMON (1981) A silly South African maniac-on-the-loose Halloween clone in which ex-marine-turned-psychic-investigator Cameron Mitchell hunts an unstoppable killer sporting razor-tipped gloves. Jennifer Holmes is the innocent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matt.doppiavvu.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matt.doppiavvu.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matt.doppiavvu.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matt.doppiavvu.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matt.doppiavvu.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/matt.doppiavvu.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matt.doppiavvu.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matt.doppiavvu.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matt.doppiavvu.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matt.doppiavvu.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}