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| Curse of the Demon (1957); aka Night of the Demon | |
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| JethroClemson | Jun 20 2013, 06:19 PM Post #1 |
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Mr. Neverdie
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![]() Dr. John Holden ventures to London to attend a paranormal psychology symposium with the intention to expose devil cult leader, Julian Karswell. Holden is a skeptic and does not believe in Karswell's power. Nonetheless, he accepts an invitation to stay at Karswell's estate, along with Joanna Harrington, niece of Holden's confidant who was electrocuted in a bizarre automobile accident. Karswell secretly slips a parchment into Holden's papers that might possibly be a death curse. Recurring strange events finally strike fear into Holden, who believes that his only hope is to pass the parchment back to Karswell to break the demonic curse. |
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| Kitty | Jul 8 2013, 03:19 PM Post #2 |
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Killer's Nemesis
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Don't recognize this one, but that's not to say it isn't any good, as I'm sure it is. |
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| MonkeyParadise | Jul 13 2013, 03:07 AM Post #3 |
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Demon
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poster is cool to me |
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| Kitty | Oct 22 2013, 10:34 AM Post #4 |
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Killer's Nemesis
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Good poster. |
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| Gorefest180 | Sep 17 2014, 05:12 AM Post #5 |
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Hero
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| Baby Firefly | Sep 8 2015, 09:39 AM Post #6 |
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The Devil Himself
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| MacReadyOrNot | Sep 8 2015, 01:54 PM Post #7 |
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Best Friend Character
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I remember liking this when I saw it |
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| floridapossum | Sep 8 2015, 03:30 PM Post #8 |
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Random Redneck
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One of my all time favorite movies. I have it on my pc. |
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| Theli | Sep 9 2015, 04:12 AM Post #9 |
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Random Redneck
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I also quite liked this flick when I saw it. Hardly remember it now though. Jacques Tourneur rocks in general. |
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| Baby Firefly | Sep 9 2015, 04:35 AM Post #10 |
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The Devil Himself
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^ Agreed. I keep forgetting that I've actually seen a few of his films (Cat People, I Walked With A Zombie, this one, and a couple others). He's one of those directors that, when brought up, I always forget about and I end up saying that I haven't seen any of his films only to look him up later and realize that I've seen a half dozen or so. This was pretty awesome. I'm keeping my recording of it so I can rewatch it sometime in the next couple months. I'll post my review tomorrow, probably.
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| Baby Firefly | Sep 14 2015, 04:14 AM Post #11 |
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The Devil Himself
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I liked the font they used for the opening credits and the musical score. The first death scene was pretty great (but the last death was probably my favorite, cheesy as part of it was). This movie looked really crisp and clean for its time and while the monster looked hokey every now and then, it was still VERY effective and it was really refreshing that they didn't try to hide it at all - instead, it's shown up close and in your face only a few minutes into the film! Holden was a pretty decent lead and the dialogue between Kaswell and Holden was the best in the film. Joanna was alright I guess. Her character's story sort of reminded me of Ellie in Halloween III (which was probably inspired by this). I probably shouldn't have laughed when some of the characters were singing that "Cherry Ripe" song to the spirits but I did. Hobart jumping off the table and screaming actually made me jump which is not something that usually happens to me when watching older films so kudos to them for that. The window leap was a good "Yikes!" moment too. The parchment trying to 'escape' from people was sort of dumb but they made it work. Spoiler: click to toggle was pretty effective but my favorite scene has to be the long dialogue scene on the train leading up to it.Very satisfying overall. ![]() 6/10 quality, 7/10 entertainment. |
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| GL84 | Nov 4 2015, 05:53 PM Post #12 |
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Killer's Therapist
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This one was one of the better examples of the style around. What really makes for such a good time here is the actual build-up of mythical powers he displays, which are not only quite fun but also certainly worth of such a great powerful villain. The early build-up here comes along at its best with the confrontations in the library where the first threats are uncovered, the disclosure of the previous knowledge in the meetings between the two before the actual events began and the continual drops of knowledge here that he knows more than he lets on in the meeting at his house where he conjures the storm to fully expose his powers and interests quite clearly which are not only the really overt display of powers but also makes for a chilling setup for the enjoyably chilling story here. Not just being great scenes but furthering the death-curse enabled by the practitioner makes for an even better time here as there's a solid foundation of action scenes throughout here, from the opening scene here of the demon appearing from the smoke-screen and fire effects chasing after the guy through the woods, the demon-cat attack in his personal library and the absolutely startling attack at the end where the train-car scenes bring about the full extent of his new-found knowledge which is then turned around on the practitioner as he chases the parchment into the foggy night where the reappearing demon begins the big chase and eventual appearance that makes for a really grand and exciting scene which gives this some really exciting and fun sequences. The fact that there's a lot going on here gives this part of a lot of great parts within here as there's a ton to like here with that, and coupled with the effective and chilling monster creation which is truly haunting and chilling to be completely worthy of the fear it instills in others all gives this one a lot to overcome the few minor flaws on display. The biggest one here is the fact that the skeptical disbeliever angle employed here that has to undergo such an extreme amount of activity against him he cannot disprove rationally that at the end he has to believe in the story is such a tired cliché that really recycling it is such a cop-out rather than anything really interesting to the story as a whole. There's so much thrown in here that he should've been a believer long before, and some tension in how to defeat the curse with how much occult knowledge he has would've been quite fun here. The only other small flaw here is the unnecessarily long and pointless scenes in the conference where they go back-and-forth for several minutes with the hypnotized guest which just makes no sense at all by confusing what is already known and merely wasting time before leading to the grand climax. These here are all that's wrong here. |
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