Night of the Demon (1957)
A black and white mystery flick about an American psychologist sent to Enlgand to investigate a demonic cult. The last guy to investigate this cult met an untimely end from a mysterious accident. In fact the first thing we get to see is the dude get wasted by a rad demon puppet by dropping some power lines on him and frying him. The American, Dr. John Holden, is very skeptical and basically spends the whole movie denying and trying to explain away the mysterious things the cult leader, Karswell is doing. Karswell doesn't directly do too many evil things, he mostly tries to protect himself. The focus of the movie is on a spell that comes from runes drawn on parchment which kind of works like the black spot in pirate lore. The last person to touch the parchment receives the demon's curse and will be killed by him next. The demon effects are pretty cool, although the youtube upload I watched this on wasn't of the best quality so it was hard to enjoy them too much. The movie almost plays out like a noir, with the fedora wearing detective/psychologist walking around night-time London and English countryside alike chasing clues, leads, and being generally surly about it all. Towards the beginning of the movie Karswell tells Holden that he is cursed and has until the 28th of October (Hey that's when I watched this! How 'bout that?). Holden blows this off like all the other claims of magic at the begenning, but we slowly start to see him change his mind, and as he gets deeper into the occult underworld we see the fear in him grow. Its pretty cool movie with mysteries, magic, and demons.
A good movie for a dark and stormy night
Dark and Stormy
2 oz dark or black rum (Kraken)
1 bottle Ginger Beer (try to find the alcoholic kind, if possible)
lime
Fill a glass with ice, pour on rum, then pour in the ginger beer, squeeze the lime and drop it in. Put on your best black robe and recite the ancient incantation: Asmodeus Baphomet Belial.
Ok, so the images from IMDB have nothing to do with this movie for starters, the poster I uploaded is a little more appropriate to the movie. You know those occult torture-porn rape/revenge movies from the early 70's? This isnt one of those. It will make you think it is, and make you keep thinking it up until the end. Really its a soft-core porn movie where they talk about witches and shit. I couldn't really follow the plot, but from what I could mostly seemed it was just about some horny chick and her sister trying to take over a coven of witches, while the previous head priestess has a lesbian hard-on for the lead girl. Also they're into photography or something. It keeps your attention with boobs, but it grinds on and on with nothing else really happening. Although it does have a lot of nudity and some style, I'd say skip it. It's not even that hot unless you really like awkward 70's lesbian make-out scenes and naked old people dancing in circles.
