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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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)
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The Devil Is a Woman (1974)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.