Demons Of The Mind DVD

Baron Zorn (Robert Hardy - Twelfth, Night, Beserk) believes his son Emil (Shane Briant - Straight on Till Morning, Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell) and daughter Elizabeth (Gillian Hills - Best Girl, Three), are suffering from a madness they inherited from their late mother. He keeps his children locked up, but at night Emil is released and murders women in the local village. Described psychologist Falkenberg (Patrick Magee - Dementia 13, The Masque of the Red Death) analyses the family and it transpires that the children witnessed their mother cut her own throat. Falkenberg conducts an experiment with a prostitute (Virginia Wetherell - Curse of the Crimson Alter, The Big Switch) in an effort to cure Emil of his incestuous desires towards his sister, but Emil strangles her. The villagers, driven on by a manic priest (Michael Hordern - The Wildeals of St Trinians, Up Pompeii), identify Zorn as the 'demon' responsible for killing their daughters. The deranged Emil escape with Elizabeth, but the murderous Zorn pursues them. Blood, he vows, will have blood...

One of the most ambitious and unusual horror films produced by Hammer, Demons of the Mind was directed by Peter Sykes (Venom, To The Devil a Daughter) and released in 1972. The distinguished cast includes Shane Briant, who would go on to appear in three further films for Hammer.

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