Curse of the Demon / Night of the Demon

After successful chillers I Walked with a Zombie, Cat People and The Leopard Man, Jacques Tourneur trumped them all with this truly memorable slice of horror-noir. Bas... more >

After successful chillers I Walked with a Zombie, Cat People and The Leopard Man, Jacques Tourneur trumped them all with this truly memorable slice of horror-noir. Based on the MR James novella Casting the Runes, the film sees Dana Andrews as urbane American psychologist Dr John Holden, who arrives in London to debunk the paranormal and expose sinister cult leader Julian Karswell – played with malevolent charm by Niall MacGinnis – as a charlatan.

In a psychic game of cat and mouse, Karswell warns Holden to leave him alone and be wary of the forces of nature and the underworld. Having decoded a satanic text he secretly slips a parchment to Holden containing various symbols – the runes have been cast – and the owner is now doomed to a hellish demise. Holden’s only solution is to secretly pass them back to Karswell along with the curse. Although arguments rumble on to this day about the merits of actually seeing the ‘demon’, everyone is agreed that it’s difficult to find a film filled with more tension, genuine menace and occult power.
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• Trailers for Fright Night and The Bride

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Cast

Dana Andrews, Niall MacGinnis, Maurice Denham, Reginald Beckwith, Peggy Cummins, Rosamund Greenwood

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