The Brotherhood of Satan (1971)

Directed by

Bernard McEveety

Genre

horror film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 38m

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 40 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A widower and his girlfriend arrive in a small California town with his young daughter. They discover a group of Satanist witches are kidnapping local children to transfer their own souls into them and become immortal.

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What happens

The Brotherhood of Satan is a 1971 American supernatural horror film directed by Bernard McEveety, produced by L. Q. Jones and Alvy Moore, and starring Jones, Strother Martin, Charles Bateman, Ahna Capri, and Geri Reischl. Its plot follows Ben Holden, a widower who, while traveling through the American Southwest with his young daughter K. T. and girlfriend Nicky, arrive in a small California town where a coven of Satanist witches are kidnapping the local children with the intent of transferring their own souls into the children's bodies as a means of achieving immortality. Filming for The Brotherhood of Satan took place in New Mexico and California. The film premiered at the Colonial Theatre in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on April 21, 1971, before receiving a wide theatrical release by Columbia Pictures on August 6, 1971. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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