Episode #787: Link (1986)
Added 2025-03-04 05:00:08 +0000 UTC“It’s a Tales from the Crypt episode, without the blood and obscenity!” - Chris
On this week’s episode, the 2025 Listener Request Month kicks off with a convo about the sleepy 1986 monkey horror, Link! Why couldn’t we see any of these kills? How hilarious is that dog puppet? What exactly is Terence Stamp’s character studying with these chimps? And look at that little peeper, Link, ruining that sensual bath! PLUS: Worst job on set? Definitely the person who had the dye the orange orangutan black so it looked like a chimpanzee.
Link stars Elisabeth Shue, Terence Stamp, Steven Finch, Richard Garnett, David O’Hara, Joe Belcher, and Kevin Lloyd as Bailey; directed by Richard Franklin.
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Original cover art by Felipe Sobreiro.
Comments
I still smoke weed with my mom, but she's cool.
Johnny Wrong
2025-03-14 02:12:39 +0000 UTCSteve, I just know that you and your wife would have a blast watching Chimp Crazy on Max.
Allison
2025-03-09 16:12:12 +0000 UTCMy cats and dog always follow me into bathroom and want me to pet them.
Dawn Elicia Billings
2025-03-07 01:31:38 +0000 UTCI loved playing Streets of Rage.
Dawn Elicia Billings
2025-03-07 01:18:10 +0000 UTCOh man, this episode was an instant classic.
HockeenightsCT
2025-03-05 22:16:16 +0000 UTCThank you, Matt! We really appreciate it and of course, it's no secret how much we love our Canadian neighbors! - Andrew
We Hate Movies
2025-03-05 19:54:49 +0000 UTCThe painting of the orangutan will haunt me forever. - Andrew
We Hate Movies
2025-03-05 19:53:17 +0000 UTCThose videos are wild! I'm also a massive fan of that old Criterion set with Jean Painlevé movies! Big recommend. - Andrew
We Hate Movies
2025-03-05 19:53:02 +0000 UTCEven really good chili with clean ingredients is dangerous enough.
MarkNM
2025-03-05 16:34:46 +0000 UTCI love that I’m far enough down the WHM rabbit hole that Cabin yelling “Don’t drink it, Marty!” got a hearty chortle out of me
The Mad Jay Woman
2025-03-05 16:16:49 +0000 UTCI recently got a kitten. She only has 3 legs but is as ferocious as any 4 legged kitten I've ever seen. She constantly attacks my feet, and it hurts. Meanwhile my 5 year old son and her have this close bond so she never used teeth or claws on him. I'm starting to think my son is training her to kill me
I.C. Weiner
2025-03-05 15:46:49 +0000 UTCsame!
Rose Esposito
2025-03-05 15:42:09 +0000 UTC"Oh no Step-Ape I'm stuck in this coconut tree. Ook ook."
Matt
2025-03-05 13:58:51 +0000 UTC/:
Grace Shapiro
2025-03-05 11:21:06 +0000 UTCSTEP-mother, so it’s ok.
Craig
2025-03-05 11:17:19 +0000 UTCClairifying question: when you say Tarzan was fucking the Gorilla do you mean his mother?
Grace Shapiro
2025-03-05 10:53:26 +0000 UTChttps://youtu.be/iS6chrslAfo?si=BV6afOYuBtM7yiaM Truly a cinematic bonk
Tim O'Connor
2025-03-05 02:17:22 +0000 UTCWe need a t-shirt of either "but what's with the cum, dude??" and/or "dude, we win the Suck Wars, all right?" FELIPE, GET ON IT!
Rose Esposito
2025-03-05 00:06:04 +0000 UTCThe people demand pics, Eric!! (And I cannot close any door in my home, or open the front door to leave, for that matter, without getting yelled at by a tiny sassy cat. I've just accepted my life of bullying.)
Rose Esposito
2025-03-05 00:04:25 +0000 UTCNature's adorable murderers.
MarkNM
2025-03-04 21:32:03 +0000 UTCJupin's chili story gave me flashbacks to Texas Chainsaw 2. Shit like this is why I rarely eat food not prepared by me these days.
CharlesGrodin'sToupee
2025-03-04 20:48:39 +0000 UTCUnleash the Bush Cut!
CharlesGrodin'sToupee
2025-03-04 20:43:08 +0000 UTCThis is minimum the second episode in which Andrew has mentioned watching snails fuck using scope based technology! I love it!
Jonnie Sea
2025-03-04 19:58:33 +0000 UTCNot sure what's more perplexing about this movie: that it was made or that they cast an orangutan in black body paint and prosthetic ears as a murderous chimpanzee.
Jesse Whiting
2025-03-04 19:39:27 +0000 UTCF/x f/x2 cloak and dagger, fuck yeah!
Purple Roundy
2025-03-04 19:39:00 +0000 UTCThe way I Max Cady laughed at “the bonkening” about Psycho II. My God.
Adam Sweeney
2025-03-04 19:21:49 +0000 UTCSad the monkey-as-Joker bit didn't end with "Why so simian?"
Adam Shreve
2025-03-04 19:15:37 +0000 UTCOMG, Yes to Cloak & Dagger! Dabney Coleman as imaginary Solid Snake! Plus (NO SPOILERS) maybe the most frightening main villain in children’s cinema? (Excluding Superman 3 Brainiac Lady, of course)
Jonnie Sea
2025-03-04 18:39:38 +0000 UTCImaginary friend and action figure. And maybe pilot Dad?
Aaron
2025-03-04 18:28:45 +0000 UTCNarrow miss on Ape-ril boys! It's blowing 45 mph snow/rain for the next 36 hours where I am so will be going "bananas" inside. Great ep 😝
Kyle N.
2025-03-04 18:03:09 +0000 UTCI rented this on Amazon and don't recall seeing the full frontal scene Andrew described (I was studying it closey too). The imdb Parent section also only lists side-boob. Is there a bush-cut only available on Apple?
I.C. Weiner
2025-03-04 17:56:23 +0000 UTCWhen my mom became an American citizen she gave up her Canadian citizenship. She's been dead for 18 years but I hope she knows how mad I am about that
I.C. Weiner
2025-03-04 17:51:52 +0000 UTCJust the way I "Dom DeLuise laugh" at Andrew's story about mocking Giovanni Ribisi while his dad watches Saving Private Ryan, lmao. Oh it gets me good. I'll co-sign any recommendation for Cloak & Dagger. I blind-bought it from Vinegar Syndrome a while back and had a lot of fun with it. Rarely do you see so much child endangerment in movies now-a-days!
Busiris
2025-03-04 16:55:28 +0000 UTCKITTENS ERIC!!?
Tala Hobballah
2025-03-04 16:49:49 +0000 UTCThat bathtub scene has *terrifying* "you want the monkey to fuck her" vibes, my god.
Rose Esposito
2025-03-04 16:30:04 +0000 UTCBrush up on your Hagrid voices, boyz, because that's basically what David Prowse sounded like, as far as I know. Which is why he wasn't allowed to actually voice Darth Vader, and he was mad about it. 💀 "Time t'eat yer gleep-glop, 'Arry!"
Rose Esposito
2025-03-04 16:29:18 +0000 UTCCompanies and individuals that tell Trump to eat a bag of assholes in any way they see fit have my doll hairs
Smaug
2025-03-04 16:22:03 +0000 UTCThis is probably not the right place to put this so please delete if you see fit but you guys are one of the few pieces of American-made content that I absolutely have zero hesitations continuing to pay for while that big orange idiot decides to slaps tariffs on everything he can. Thanks for the laughs, we'll get through it together, and despite the boos you may hear at sporting events up here trust us that it's not directed at you guys. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
Matt
2025-03-04 16:00:28 +0000 UTCJust a heads up to sweeten the pot for Cloak And Dagger. It’s been a while since I saw it but I believe Dabney Coleman is the imaginary friend in the movie
Dan sulin
2025-03-04 14:17:30 +0000 UTCGotta love a good dummy death! - Andrew
We Hate Movies
2025-03-04 14:03:15 +0000 UTCCloak and Dagger has a wonderfully janky elevator shaft dummy fall death. Worth doing for that alone.
MarkNM
2025-03-04 13:50:26 +0000 UTCWowza! What a story, Darryl! - Andrew
We Hate Movies
2025-03-04 13:30:20 +0000 UTCThe developers of War Gods must be planning a sequel based upon the amount of google searches it received during the recording and this morning
RJ Cunningham
2025-03-04 13:11:49 +0000 UTC“We don’t wanna go to a bar with a smoking monkey.”
RJ Cunningham
2025-03-04 12:46:39 +0000 UTCI haven’t seen this, but the trailer is incredible.
Craig
2025-03-04 11:15:44 +0000 UTCAnd they were a mormon household
Darryl Bowen
2025-03-04 06:50:04 +0000 UTCMy cousin was a psycho kid, but as far as I know not until he became a teen as last time I hung out with him was 12 and he was normal. His family moved to another state, he became a teenager and went nuts. Started breaking into neighbors homes and stealing things, stole his parents credit cards and ran up thousands of dollars in 1-900 phone calls, tried to smother his baby sister in the crib, came at his dad with a knife, shoved his mom down concrete stairs who later died....other things I can't remember. He died of a drug overdose pre 9/11 so at least he holds no responsibility there.
Darryl Bowen
2025-03-04 06:47:08 +0000 UTCThe most suspenseful thing about this movie is that i was waiting for one of the guys to say "You want the monkey to fuck her?" the entire episode and it never happend.
Taco6N 13
2025-03-04 06:46:44 +0000 UTCHot chips on bollocks, those limeys will be lucky to have you guys! Gunna be some good shows 😃
Evan
2025-03-04 05:50:42 +0000 UTC'How many murderous monkey butlers will there be?' 'Just one at first but he'll train others.' I'll bet Andrew dropped a version of that joke in this ep at some point.
johnny stocker
2025-03-04 05:04:31 +0000 UTC
