Demons of the Mind ( Blood Evil ) ( Blood Will Have Blood (Nightmare of Terror) )

Demons of the Mind (DVD) (*)

$21.99

Original Title: Blood Evil
Alternate Title: Blood Will Have Blood (Nightmare of Terror)
Language Selections:
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Portuguese ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Netherlands ( PAL/Region 2.4 )

Running Time:
85 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1972 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Peter Sykes

Written By:
Frank Godwin
Christopher Wicking

Actors:
Robert Hardy ..... Zorn
Shane Briant ..... Emil
Gillian Hills ..... Elizabeth
Yvonne Mitchell ..... Hilda
Paul Jones ..... Carl Richter
Patrick Magee ..... Falkenberg
Kenneth J. Warren ..... Klaus
Michael Hordern ..... Priest
Robert Brown ..... Fischinger
Virginia Wetherell ..... Inge
Deirdre Costello ..... Magda
Barry Stanton ..... Ernst
Sidonie Bond ..... Zorn's Wife
Thomas Heathcote ..... Coachman
John Atkinson ..... 1st Villager

Synopsis:

Baron Zorn keeps his teenaged children locked up and drugged, fearing that his insane wife passed along a congenital curse to them before her own suicidal death. Elizabeth escapes for a brief tryst with a local before being recaptured and subjected to a bleeding process to 'draw out the bad blood.' Emil keeps trying to escape, but is thwarted time and again by his aunt Hilda who runs the house like a prison. One reason the siblings have to be kept apart, is their incestuous attraction to each other. Local wenches are being murdered in the woods, and the superstitious peasants think demons are responsible. A wandering Priest dedicates himself to root out the evil, but isn't taken seriously. Arriving at the castle are two more interested parties: Mountebank scientist-huckster Falkenberg stands to make a small fortune if his strange apparatus can cure the children of their inherited evil. Young Carl simply wants to rescue Elizabeth. As more murders mount, Falkenberg enlists village lass Inge to play the dead mother in a psycho-drama that he hopes will shock the children from their morbid state; but Baron Zorn's symptoms of derangement soon make it obvious that the doctor is treating the wrong patient...

Hammer Films apply their characteristic Gothic touch to this offbeat psychological thriller about a bombastic 19th-century Baron (Robert Hardy) who keeps his two adult offspring imprisoned in the family estate, convinced they are afflicted by an evil curse of madness passed down from their late mother. Unfortunately, they're not the only ones to worry about: it seems a spate of recent murders in the surrounding village are being committed by his son (Shane Briant), who is being manipulated by his father's deranged will to leave the castle and act out Dad's twisted, violent fantasies. Superb photography and good use of locations lend a rich atmosphere to this psycho-costume-drama, and Patrick Magee turns in a good performance as the family doctor (somewhat reminiscent of his role in Coppola's Dementia 13). Director Peter Sykes keeps the horror fairly subdued until the bloody 'shock' ending, which seems to spoil the mood a bit.

Horror film set in the 1830's Bavaria, it tells of a mad Baron who attempts to drive his children insane following the suicide of their mother.

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 19 June, 2011.