Review of To the Devil a Daughter (1976) by Alan L — 14 Oct 2011
Designed to cash in on the success of The Exorcist and Rosemary's Baby this film ended up being the final nail in Hammer's coffin. Disastrous WTF ending aside, I really enjoyed it. Atmospherically shot, with some extremely bad taste birth scenes and an 'I can't believe I just saw that' Satanic orgy session! Oh and there's a gloopy bloody devil monster baby that crawls back into a nun's womb! Really yucky.
Christopher Lee is mesmerising as the devil worshipping priest. There's also a young Nastassja Kinski (the nun), Richard Widmark, Denholm Elliot and Honor Blackman in a pretty amazing cast. Apparently the script was being rewritten daily on set and it shows.
Somehow though its incoherence adds to the mystery... until the end when the filmmakers ran out of time and money and probably collectively said 'Shi*t what do we do now?' The result is bonkers and bollocks.
This review of To the Devil a Daughter (1976) was written by Alan L on 14 Oct 2011.
To the Devil a Daughter has generally received mixed reviews.
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