Devils of Darkness

88 minutesCountryUnited KingdomLanguageEnglish

Devils of Darkness is a 1965 British horror film directed by Lance Comfort and starring William Sylvester, Hubert Noël and Carole Gray.^[1] It was the last feature film directed by Comfort.

Plot

Count Sinistre was put to death in the sixteenth century for his evil deeds, but rose from the dead. He later killed gypsy girl Tania, whom he then raised from the tomb and married. In 1964 he attacks again, at a small village where Paul Baxter and friends are on holiday. He murders three of Baxter's friends. Baxter, initially sceptical of the supernatural nature of the killings, becomes suspicious and stays in town with a talisman belonging to Sinistre taken from the scene of one of the murders. Sinistre pursues Baxter in an attempt to recover the talisman and murders Baxter's acquaintances along the way.

Cast

• William Sylvester as Paul Baxter
• Hubert Noël as Count Sinistre
• Carole Gray as Tania
• Tracy Reed as Karen Steele
• Diana Decker as Madeleine Braun
• Rona Anderson as Anne Forest
• Peter Illing as Inspector Malin
• Gerard Heinz as Bouvier, hotel manager
• Brian Oulton as the Colonel
• Walter Brown as Bruno
• Eddie Byrne as Dr. Robert Kelsey
• Victor Brooks as Inspector Hardwick
• Marie Burke as old gypsy woman
• Marianne Stone as the duchess
• Avril Angers as Midge

Reception

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Unconvincing excursion into the macabre, which is consistently disagreeable but never in the least alarming."^[2]

Author and film critic Leonard Maltin awarded the film two out of four stars, calling it "Intelligent, with great use of color, but flat, slow, and ultimately trivial."^[3]

References

External links

• Devils of Darkness at IMDb
• Devils of Darkness then-and-now location photographs at ReelStreets