Link Movie Review

Primatologist Terence Stamp conducts his behavioral experiments in the remote English countryside assisted by Link, an ex-circus chimp (played by an orangutan) trained to act just like a butler. When the old ape suspects his days of employment – and living, for that matter – are numbered, he mimics another humanlike trait: premeditated murder. The borderline-sf suspense plot works well until a carload of typically stupid movie teens show up, just asking to be turned into monkey chow, and nubile Elisabeth Shue's acting sure wasn't Oscar caliber until later. But this critically undervalued chiller is well worth rediscovering on video, especially for Jerry Goldsmith's witty and menacing soundtrack.

1986 (R) 103m/C GB Elisabeth Shue, Terence Stamp; D: Richard Franklin; W: Everett DeRoche; M: Jerry Goldsmith. VHS, Beta REP