To the Devil a Daughter (1976)

Directed by

Peter Sykes

Genre

horror film, satanic film

Country

Australia, Germany, United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 35m

Rated

R

Rating

5.5 of 10 from 124 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An American researcher in England tries to protect a teenage girl from a Satanic cult. The cult is led by a fallen Catholic priest who wants to use the girl for a dark ritual.

tensedarkatmosphericunsettlingslow-burngloomycreepysupernatural

What happens

To the Devil a Daughter, sometimes stylised as To the Devil... a Daughter, is a 1976 supernatural horror film directed by Peter Sykes and starring Richard Widmark, Christopher Lee, Honor Blackman, Nastassja Kinski, and Denholm Elliott. Loosely based on the 1953 novel of the same name by Dennis Wheatley, it follows an American occult researcher in England who attempts to save a teenage girl preyed upon by a Satanic cult led by a fallen Catholic priest. An international co-production between the United Kingdom, West Germany, and the United States, the film was produced by Hammer Film Productions and Terra Filmkunst. It was originally devised by Hammer as a television episode in a series based on Wheatley's novels, which never materialized. Wheatley's book was subsequently adapted as a feature film co-written by Christopher Wicking. The film was mostly shot in Bavaria and London in 1975, and features a musical score by the Swiss-American composer Paul Glass. The film premiered in London in March 1976 and went on to become one of Hammer's most profitable films of the 1970s. Despite this, it has received generally unfavourable reviews, and Wheatley, Widmark, Wicking, and Hammer executive Michael Carreras were unhappy with it. It was Hammer's penultimate film before The Lady Vanishes (1979) ended their run in the 20th century, and their last to feature Lee until The Resident (2011). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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