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* AntagonistTitle: Link is the murderous chimp that the protagonists are up against.
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''Link'' is a 1986 horror film directed by [[Film/RoadGames Richard]] [[Film/PsychoII Franklin]], written by [[Film/LongWeekend Everett]] [[Film/{{Patrick}} De Roche]] from a story by [[Series/MacGyver Lee David Zlotoff]] and Tom Ackermann, and starring Creator/ElisabethShue and Creator/TerenceStamp. Music/JerryGoldsmith composed the score.

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''Link'' is a 1986 horror film directed by [[Film/RoadGames Richard]] [[Film/PsychoII Franklin]], written by [[Film/LongWeekend Everett]] [[Film/{{Patrick}} De Roche]] from a story by [[Series/MacGyver [[Series/MacGyver1985 Lee David Zlotoff]] and Tom Ackermann, and starring Creator/ElisabethShue and Creator/TerenceStamp. Music/JerryGoldsmith composed the score.
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->''"When man was given mastery over the beasts, someone forgot to tell Link."''
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* TrashTheSet: [[spoiler: Northfield Range burns down spectacularly during the climax.]]

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* TrashTheSet: [[spoiler: Northfield Range burns down spectacularly during the climax.]]]]

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''Link'' is a 1986 horror film directed by [[Film/RoadGames Richard]] [[Film/PsychoII Franklin]], written by [[Film/LongWeekend Everett]] [[Film/{{Patrick}} De Roche]] from a story by [[Series/MacGyver Lee David Zlotoff]] and Tom Ackermann, and starring Creator/ElisabethShue and Creator/TerenceStamp.

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''Link'' is a 1986 horror film directed by [[Film/RoadGames Richard]] [[Film/PsychoII Franklin]], written by [[Film/LongWeekend Everett]] [[Film/{{Patrick}} De Roche]] from a story by [[Series/MacGyver Lee David Zlotoff]] and Tom Ackermann, and starring Creator/ElisabethShue and Creator/TerenceStamp.
Creator/TerenceStamp. Music/JerryGoldsmith composed the score.
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** After freeing Imp from the well, Jane admonishes Link, asking him if that’s how he deals with people he doesn’t like. [[spoiler:Turns out that was exactly what he did to Dr. Phillip after he killed him, and what he does to Tom.]]

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** After freeing Imp from the well, Jane admonishes Link, asking him if that’s throwing others in the well is how he deals with people he doesn’t like. [[spoiler:Turns out that was exactly what he did to Dr. Phillip after he killed him, and what he does to Tom.]]

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Things take a turn for the horrific when Dr. Phillip disappears, Voodoo turns up dead, and Link not only disconnects the phone line and cuts Jane off from leaving, but stats to show an all-too human interest in Jane, leading to an interspecies duel…

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Things take a turn for the horrific when Dr. Phillip disappears, Voodoo turns up dead, and Link not only disconnects the phone line and cuts Jane off from leaving, but stats starts to show an all-too human interest in Jane, leading to an interspecies duel…



* TheEndOrIsIt: After Link's defeat, the heroine and her boyfriend pick up one of the friendlier chimps in their car. The camera then pans out to reveal [[spoiler: the field behind them is full of dead sheep, showing us that the chimp is homicidal too.]]

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* TheEndOrIsIt: After Link's defeat, the heroine Jane and her boyfriend David pick up Imp, one of the friendlier chimps chimps, in their car. The camera then pans out to reveal [[spoiler: the field behind them is full of dead sheep, showing us that the chimp Imp is homicidal too.]]



** After freeing Imp from the well, Jane admonishes Link, asking him if that’s how he deals with people he doesn’t like. [[spoiler:Turns out that was exactly what he did to Dr. Phillip after he killed him.]]

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** After freeing Imp from the well, Jane admonishes Link, asking him if that’s how he deals with people he doesn’t like. [[spoiler:Turns out that was exactly what he did to Dr. Phillip after he killed him.him, and what he does to Tom.]]


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* SuperStrength: Link is able to pick up one end of Bailey’s van, and would have tipped it over completely had Jane not intervened.
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* TheEndOrIsIt: After Link's defeat, the heroine and her boyfriend pick up one of the friendlier chimps in their car. The camera then pans out to reveal [[spoiler: the field behind them is full of dead sheep, showing us that the chimp is homicidal too.]]
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''Link'' is a 1986 horror film directed by [[Film/RoadGames Richard]] [[Film/PsychoII Franklin]], written by [[Film/LongWeekend Everett]] [[Film/{{Patrick}} De Roche]] from a story by [[Series/MacGyver Lee David Zlotoff]] and Tom Ackermann, and starring Creator/ElisabethShue and Creator/TerenceStamp.

Jane Chase, an American girl studying in Britain, becomes the research assistant to the eccentric Dr. Steven Phillip, her professor and noted primatologist. Setting up shop in Northfield Range, his secluded estate, she meets his subjects: chimps Imp, Voodoo, and Link, a former circus chimp known as “Link, Master of Fire,” now doubling as Phillip’s butler.

Things take a turn for the horrific when Dr. Phillip disappears, Voodoo turns up dead, and Link not only disconnects the phone line and cuts Jane off from leaving, but stats to show an all-too human interest in Jane, leading to an interspecies duel…
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!! “Link” contains examples of the following tropes:

*AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler:Dennis meets his end this way, when Link reaches through the mail slot and pulls his arm through it, tearing it off.]]
*CutPhoneLines: Link climbs onto the phone line and pulls it down, cutting Jane off from any communication.
*DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:Link falls into the burning house to his death when the roof collapses from under him.]]
*EurekaMoment: [[spoiler:Jane spots the switch for the gas line in the fruit cellar, and realizes that she can use Link’s love of fire and cigars against him.]]
*{{Foreshadowing}}:
**After freeing Imp from the well, Jane admonishes Link, asking him if that’s how he deals with people he doesn’t like. [[spoiler:Turns out that was exactly what he did to Dr. Phillip after he killed him.]]
** Link putting his hand through the mail slot after Jane locks him out as punishment [[spoiler: sets up how Link kills Dennis later.]]
*TrashTheSet: [[spoiler: Northfield Range burns down spectacularly during the climax.]]

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