Written by James M. Tate / 1/05/2025 / No comments / christopher lee , denholm elliott , hammer films , honor blackman , horror , nastassja kinski , occult , richard widmark , seventies , thriller
HAMMER FILMS PENULTIMATE HORROR 'TO THE DEVIL A DAUGHTER'
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Nastassja Kinski in TO THE DEVIL A DAUGHTER Year: 1976 Rating: ** |
Penultimate horror for one of the most famous horror studios, British's Hammer Films, has a young girl, schooled by nuns and dressed accordingly, being surreptitiously groomed into a Satanic coven care-of Hammer's biggest star Christopher Lee (who seems ready to bare fangs at any given moment) playing an ex-priest...
But the main problem with TO THE DEVIL A DAUGHTER... where the exploitation aspect's built right into the title, most likely to compete with THE EXORCIST... is that the novelty of a gorgeous young girl being used for Satanic/risque purposes means little since fourteen-year old Nastassja Kinski looks more like a nineteen-year-old old enough for whatever else she's being hidden from...
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Nastassja Kinski in TO THE DEVIL A DAUGHTER |
But her performance is good, and although first-billed hero Richard Widmark (initially partnered with Honor Blackman)... as a best-selling horror novelist protecting Kinski's Catherine Beddows... should have been played by a younger actor, he does an affable job in what little's given...
In a witchcraft-centered Hammer (inspired by those rural occult b-movies involving vulnerable children) attempting the psychological thriller aspect over being effectively scary (DEMONS OF THE MIND comes to mind), DEVIL was a bonafide box-office success — but the studio was already too far in debt to recover.
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Christopher Lee in TO THE DEVIL A DAUGHTER |
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Nastassja Kinski in TO THE DEVIL A DAUGHTER with Richard Widmark |
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Nastassja Kinski in TO THE DEVIL A DAUGHTER |
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Christopher Lee in TO THE DEVIL A DAUGHTER |
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Christopher Lee in TO THE DEVIL A DAUGHTER |
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Nastassja Kinski in TO THE DEVIL A DAUGHTER with Christopher Lee |
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Nastassja Kinski in TO THE DEVIL A DAUGHTER |
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Nastassja Kinski in TO THE DEVIL A DAUGHTER |
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Nastassja Kinski in TO THE DEVIL A DAUGHTER with Richard Widmark |
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