To the Devil a Daughter
uranium-cafe.com To the Devil a Daughter Author jamesraeburn2003 from Poole, Dorset *POSSIBLE SPOILERS* Father Michael Rayner (CHRISTOPHER LEE) was ex-communicated from the Church of England for attempting to bring a personification of the devil to Earth. Twenty years on and Rayner has settled in Germany with his devil-worshiping followers under the facade of the “Children of the Lord” cult. Rayner sends his godchild Catherine Beddows (NASTASSJA KINSKI) to England to join her father Henry Beddows (DENHOLM ELLIOT) for her 18th-birthday. Rayner intends to fulfil his old ambition and rebaptise Catherine into the service of evil. Henry who was forced into the cult’s evil-doings because his wife was a member of the cult attempts to recant and places his daughter in the care of occult novelist Jim Verney (RICHARD WIDMARK) who must confront and destroy Rayner before he succeeds in making the devil walk the Earth in the form of an innocent girl. TO THE DEVIL A DAUGHTER was Hammer’s final horror film and the company’s second attempt to bring one of Dennis Wheatley’s occult novels to the screen. Wheatley was overjoyed by the company’s filming of his novel THE DEVIL RIDES OUT (1968), but was apparently less pleased with Hammer’s version of his popular TO THE DEVIL A DAUGHTER novel which Hammer had considered adapting for the screen as early as 1963. The film took a very respectable £13, 375 on it’s opening week at the Odeon Leicester Square and it reached number three in the London …
Video Rating: 3 / 5
The Voodoo Studios gang got together and shot a test for their original script – Seven-Dollar Salvation – a short about a girl who gets the idea to raise money by selling certificates of salvation that promise the owner a spot in the afterlife for seven bucks a pop. This scene takes place late in the script so it might feel a little out of context. It was shot using 2 Canon 5D Mark IIs on standard def and two Rode Videomics to mimic a potential equipment set-up that we might use in the upcoming Houston 48 Hour Film Project. Starring: Chloe Donovan Austin Webb
