To The Devil A Daughter - Hammer Films

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Loosely based on a novel by Dennis Wheatley, To The Devil A Daughter had little in common with the company’s previous Wheatley adaptations, The Devil Rides Out and The Lost Continent. In fact a generation of filmmaking sensibilities separated it from almost every Hammer film that had gone before.

Tellingly, the poster for To the Devil promoted it as a successor to Rosemary’s Baby and The Exorcist, while Hammer’s credit appeared in small type at the bottom. At the very least, To the Devil a Daughter was the only modern horror film Hammer had the chance to make, but it merits reappraisal on many other grounds. Its greatest asset is a performance of chilling intensity from Christopher Lee, but director Peter Sykes’ fragmented narrative is equally arresting right up to the surreal (anti)climax. Unfairly dismissed as a lost opportunity, Hammer’s final horror film was in fact a tantalising glimpse of an intriguing new direction.

Occult chiller which tells of two men locked in deadly battle over possession of a young innocent for the 'Children Of The Lord' cult. A devil worshipper needs her sacrificial soul to form the satanic homunculus of the demon god Astaroph. And a supernatural specialist must stop the ghastly ritual before the powers of the Dark envelope the universe.


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Christopher Lee, Richard Widmark, Nastassja Kinski, Honor Blackman, Denholm Elliott, Anthony Valentine, Derek Francis, Brian Wilde, Frances de la Tour

  Peter Sykes

  88 mins

  1976



  None specified

  English

  1

  2 - will only play on UK / European DVD player or multi region player

  Usually despatched within 5 working days

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