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MPAA Rating: R Content Advisory: Violence, Brief Nudity, Adult Situations, Not For Children, Adult Language, Profanity Movie Release: 1986 DVD Release: 08/21/2001 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV Audio Tracks: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 43 mins Studio: Anchor Bay Members Wishing: 4 Genres: Horror

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, Voodoo is found dead at the mansion. Link then proceeds to ignore Jane's commands and starts pushing Imp around. When Dr. Phillip's friend Bailey (Kevin Lloyd) arrives to take Voodoo away, Link becomes aggressive and chases Bailey away from the mansion. Jane later realizes Link is holding her prisoner in the mansion, not allowing her through the door and keeping the telephone away from her. Link is now out for blood, and the blood belongs to Jane. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide

Terence Stamp - Dr. Steven Phillip
Elisabeth Shue - Jane Chase
Steven Pinner - David
Richard Garnett - Dennis
David Patrick O'Hara - Tom

In the 1980s there were two major mad monkey movies: George A. Romero's Monkey Shines and Richard Franklin's orangutan-on-the-loose thriller Link starring Elisabeth Shue and Terence Stamp. Anchor Bay has taken the time to release this smaller thriller in a mostly bare-bones DVD edition. Featuring a 1.66:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer, =Link looks about as good as it's going to get. The colors are very bright and crisp, and the blacks are solid with only a slight bit of gray to hinder them. There is a some grain and shimmer in the image, but overall Anchor Bay has done a fine job with the transfer. Audio is presented in Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround in English only. The audio portion of this disc is not nearly as impressive as the video portion; the fidelity on the Dolby 2.0 track is not very expansive, although the dialogue, music, and effects are all mixed evenly. No subtitles are included. In the way of bonus materials, Link includes only a couple of small extra features -- a very unexciting teaser trailer and an original theatrical trailer. =Link may not be a movie to go bananas over, but since this is the only widescreen edition on DVD, fans should be relatively excited to own this disc. ~ Patrick Naugle, All Movie Guide