Written by James M. Tate / 11/03/2025 / No comments / british , carole gray , diana decker , eddie byrne , hubert hoël , lance comfort , marianne stone , rona anderson , sixties , tracy reed , vampire , william sylvester
CAROLE GRAY AND WILLIAM SYLVESTER IN 'DEVILS OF DARKNESS'
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| Carole Gray in DEVILS OF DARKNESS Year: 1965 Rating: *** |
Before playing the benign bombshell in Planet Film's ISLAND OF TERROR, raven-haired/full-lipped beauty Carole Gray had a sensuously demonic/scene-stealing role in DEVILS OF DARKNESS that, shot by veteran crime-genre director Lance Comfort, is a hybrid of Hammer's DRACULA, Universal's THE WOLF MAN (with a harbinger gypsy woman), and the myriad of Satanic Occult Horrors that were gaining traction during the middle-to-late 1960's...
The first half being in Comfort's comfort zone with gentlemanly American-actor-in-England William Sylvester (later in Stanley Kubrick's 2001) and upper-class girlfriend Diana Decker (previously in Kubrick's LOLITA) figuring out that their idyllic vacation locale is really a demonic cult led by Hubert Noël's Count Sinistre, channeling Christopher Lee's neck-biter but more broodingly asexual and melancholy...
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| Painting of Tracy Reed in DEVILS OF DARKNESS |
It's the second half when things almost pick up... as scene-stealer Carole Gray's vampire-moll Tania (sacrificed in the antique backstory and already resurrected into modern times) finds the perfect-girl sacrifice in redheaded model Tracy Reed, introduced much too late to become the kind of vulnerable ingenue the hero desperately needs to save...
From a potentially dangerous menace that (far too soon) winds up toast under bright lethal daylight — as these DEVILS OF DARKNESS anticlimactically peak before they can really begin.
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| Hubert Noël and Carole Gray in DEVILS OF DARKNESS |
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| Carole Gray, Diana Decker and Tracy Reed in DEVILS OF DARKNESS |
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| Hubert Noël and Carole Gray in DEVILS OF DARKNESS |
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| Carole Gray with Hubert Noël and Diana Decker in DEVILS OF DARKNESS |
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| Carole Gray in DEVILS OF DARKNESS |
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| Carole Gray in DEVILS OF DARKNESS |
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| Carole Gray and William Sylvester in DEVILS OF DARKNESS |
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| Eddie Byrne and William Sylvester in DEVILS OF DARKNESS |
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| William Sylvester in DEVILS OF DARKNESS |
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| Marianne Stone and Diana Decker in DEVILS OF DARKNESS |
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| Tracy Reed and William Sylvester in DEVILS OF DARKNESS |
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| Hubert Noël and Tracy Reed in DEVILS OF DARKNESS |
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| Hubert Noël and Carole Gray in DEVILS OF DARKNESS |
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| Hubert Noël and Carole Gray in DEVILS OF DARKNESS |
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| Carole Gray in DEVILS OF DARKNESS |
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| Carole Gray in DEVILS OF DARKNESS |
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| Hubert Noël and Tracy Reed in DEVILS OF DARKNESS |
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| Hubert Noël and Tracy Reed in DEVILS OF DARKNESS |
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| Carole Gray in DEVILS OF DARKNESS |
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