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#10,665 All-time worldwide
#144 1986 releases

Movie profile

Link

1986 · 103 min · Thorn Emi Screen Entertainment

Horror Thriller
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $1.7M
Budget —
Gross minus budget —
ROI —

Domestic gross

$825,816

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$894,634

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$355,101

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Link ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.
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All-time worldwide #10,665 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1986 releases #144 Release-year chart position of 206 titles Ranked against movies released in 1986. Studio / company #1 Thorn Emi Screen Entertainment of 2 titles Position inside the mapped Thorn Emi Screen Entertainment movie set. Primary genre #1,020 Horror of 1,240 titles Genre context based on the first mapped genre on this profile.

Nearby worldwide ranks

Comparable titles immediately around this movie by reported worldwide gross.

#10,661 Queen of Blood 1966 · $1.7M #10,663 Cristóbal Colón, de oficio... descubridor 1982 · $1.7M #10,664 Stryker 1983 · $1.7M #10,666 Blue 1993 · $1.7M #10,667 High Heels 1991 · $1.7M #10,668 Josée 2020 · $1.7M

Quick answer

How did Link (1986) perform at the box office?

Medium confidence

Link (1986) has a reported worldwide box office gross of $1.7M. In this database it currently ranks #10,665 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #144 among 1986 releases.

Worldwide gross
$1,720,450
Budget
Not available
Gross minus budget
Not available
ROI
Not available
Source: TMDb. Last updated: Jul 13, 2026. View source Gross-minus-budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and later home/streaming revenue.

Synopsis

Story

Young graduate student Jane Chase becomes the new assistant to an eccentric zoology professor at the remote home he shares with two brilliant chimpanzees and an elderly orangutan butler named Link. But when one of the chimps is found dead and the professor mysteriously disappears, Link becomes dangerously aggressive towards Jane. Now, the time for “monkey business” is over and the true terror is about to begin.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Mar 5, 1986
Production
Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment, The Cannon Group
Countries
GB

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyThorn Emi Screen Entertainment Release year chart1986 box office Genre chartHorror Genre chartThriller

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1986, Link is positioned in this dataset as a Horror, Thriller title from Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $1.7M. For comparison, it currently sits #10,665 all-time in the current chart set and #144 among 1986 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

AI-generated contextual summary based on available movie, genre, ranking and box office data. It does not replace official distributor notes or financial reporting.
Data noteGross minus budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and downstream revenue. Domestic, international and opening weekend figures marked as estimated are modelled estimates.