To the Devil a Daughter (1976)
Country: GB/GER
Technical: col 93m
Director: Peter Sykes, (Don Sharp)
Cast: Richard Widmark, Nastassja Kinski, Christopher Lee, Honor Blackman, Denholm Elliott, Anthony Valentine
Synopsis:
A successful writer of occult fiction is prevailed upon by a traumatised drunk to rescue his daughter from diabolists. To all appearances a nun, she is being transported from Bavaria to England to be baptised in the blood of Asteroth.
Review:
Hammer Studios' swan song as a producer of feature films was this co-production with Germany, perhaps explaining why it has better lens work than usual, though the blood is as usual too bright. Also boasting an American star, it moves along briskly enough but is low on peril: the most Satan can come up with seems to be a rather fearsome rushing wind. The ending also is something of a damp squib, with Lee apparently abandoned by all his disciples and then disappearing himself without so much as a puff of smoke. For connoisseurs of such things, there is a rather gruesome (in concept) birthing scene and some orgiastic hi-jinks at a satanic ritual, though little that will raise an eyebrow nowadays so much as Kinski's full frontal nudity (she was 14 at the time).
Country: GB/GER
Technical: col 93m
Director: Peter Sykes, (Don Sharp)
Cast: Richard Widmark, Nastassja Kinski, Christopher Lee, Honor Blackman, Denholm Elliott, Anthony Valentine
Synopsis:
A successful writer of occult fiction is prevailed upon by a traumatised drunk to rescue his daughter from diabolists. To all appearances a nun, she is being transported from Bavaria to England to be baptised in the blood of Asteroth.
Review:
Hammer Studios' swan song as a producer of feature films was this co-production with Germany, perhaps explaining why it has better lens work than usual, though the blood is as usual too bright. Also boasting an American star, it moves along briskly enough but is low on peril: the most Satan can come up with seems to be a rather fearsome rushing wind. The ending also is something of a damp squib, with Lee apparently abandoned by all his disciples and then disappearing himself without so much as a puff of smoke. For connoisseurs of such things, there is a rather gruesome (in concept) birthing scene and some orgiastic hi-jinks at a satanic ritual, though little that will raise an eyebrow nowadays so much as Kinski's full frontal nudity (she was 14 at the time).
Country: GB/GER
Technical: col 93m
Director: Peter Sykes, (Don Sharp)
Cast: Richard Widmark, Nastassja Kinski, Christopher Lee, Honor Blackman, Denholm Elliott, Anthony Valentine
Synopsis:
A successful writer of occult fiction is prevailed upon by a traumatised drunk to rescue his daughter from diabolists. To all appearances a nun, she is being transported from Bavaria to England to be baptised in the blood of Asteroth.
Review:
Hammer Studios' swan song as a producer of feature films was this co-production with Germany, perhaps explaining why it has better lens work than usual, though the blood is as usual too bright. Also boasting an American star, it moves along briskly enough but is low on peril: the most Satan can come up with seems to be a rather fearsome rushing wind. The ending also is something of a damp squib, with Lee apparently abandoned by all his disciples and then disappearing himself without so much as a puff of smoke. For connoisseurs of such things, there is a rather gruesome (in concept) birthing scene and some orgiastic hi-jinks at a satanic ritual, though little that will raise an eyebrow nowadays so much as Kinski's full frontal nudity (she was 14 at the time).