The Blood On Satan's Claw

United Kingdom

1971

93 Min

Color

1.85:1

English

Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
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PROD Peter L. Andrews, Malcolm B. Heyworth

CAST Patrick Wymark, Linda Hayden, Barry Andrews, Michelle Dotrice, James Hayter, Anthony Ainley, Howard Goorney, Avice Landone, Charlotte Mitchell, Wendy Padbury, Tamara Ustinov, Simon Williams, Robin Davies

Classic British horror directed by Piers Haggard. In a 17th-Century English village, a ploughman discovers the skeletal remains of a demonic creature. Soon after the remains are discovered, they go missing again, which hampers the investigations of the local judge (Patrick Wymark). Meanwhile, strange events are beginning to occur in the village: a young woman inexplicably goes insane and her fiance is later found cutting off his own hand, believing it to have turned into a hideous claw. Then a cult of teenage devil-worshippers emerges, led by beautiful temptress Angel Blake (Linda Hayden), which involves children performing blood sacrifices to bring the skeletal demon back to life…

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Konrad Szlendak

14Feb13

Cool non-Hammer take on satanic horor genre. Bit slow at times, not really intense and with silly ending, but a ritual scene in church ruins is still worthy to be seen.

Henrik Houmann Steensen

18Jun12

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=triPkcSYVkY

Matt Burgess

20May12

Eerie little chiller that contains one of my favourite performances ever - Linda Hayden as the devil-worshipping lolita Angel Blake. The sequence where she and her followers rape and kill an innocent classmate in a bizarre ritual is one of the most exhilarating & demented ever filmed. Unfortunately she's underused and the scenes without her are uninteresting - filled with pompous British has been actors in bad wigs.

sd burch

14Jun11

I caught this one night on NYC television in the 70s and was astounded by its effective creepiness and eroticism. I've not seen it since, and I don't believe its available on DVD, at least not in the U.S. But it's worth a look, and may be one of the unjustly forgotten films of the 70s.