UHM - Review

I'm not positive, but I think I've seen this film many years ago when I was a lot younger. Either way, I enjoyed it and found it fun to watch all the chimpanzees moving around the house doing certain tasks. The story is about a student who requests to become an assistant for a researcher at his home in the middle of nowhere. The researcher is apparently searching for intelligence in primates and already has a well trained one named Link, who seems to be the smartest and oldest of them all. The researcher wants to put Link asleep, but Link has other plans.

This is one of the better killer-animal movies. It's not really violent or scary, but it's enjoyable and interesting and that's what I liked about the film. A young Elisabeth Shue offers a decent performance as the assistant. She also has an excellent nude scene in the movie. The first 40 or so minutes is pretty much just to show how smart the primates are and introduces the characters. It starts to get more interesting once the researcher disappears one night, leaving the assistant alone in the house with all the primates. I found the movie to be a bit predictable, but most 80s films are anyway. I would have given the movie a higher-rating, but it was a little slow in most of the beginning, but other than that I liked it.

OVERALL

A good killer-animal movie about an orang-outang. A bit slow in the beginning, but interesting and entertaining none-the-less. Worth a check.

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Tyler :

Posted 335 days ago

I loved this movie! I saw it when I was younger, and thought it was ingenious. I mean, how many movies feature a killer monkey trapping people in a giant mansion?

Dylan :

Posted 365 days ago

I saw this film when it first came out at theatres......then again on cable. It was just as awful the second time as the first time. This film was so incredibly boring I could not believe it. A box office bomb, I can see why. Elizabeth Shue and Terrance Stamp, who did MUCH better in their prospective roles: "Shue in "Karate Kid" and Stamp in "Superman 2" -- are wasted in this film. No scares, no suspense -- no nothing. The film was very predictable. That was if you could stay awake long enough to watch it until the end. Link was, and still remains, a cinematic snoozer even 21 years later....................

Rick :

Posted 368 days ago

This is a fantastic film and much underated. Elizabeth Shue assists Terrance Stamp researching primates in his house, miles from anywhere in Yorkshire. The scenes with Link and Elizabeth Shue are genuinely creepy and by the end of the film you'll be on the edge of your seat as they get chased through the house by the homicidal ape.
The score is good and the pace, from the slow build to the destructive finale never lets up. A genuine classic in my eyes.

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