It was destined to become a disappointing spooky-titled horror flick since DEMONS OF THE MIND means that there are none...
No demons, and for one of Hammer's last psychological thrillers, no monsters at all...
Unless you count a young man slaying women along the countryside, not far from a Gothic castle where a manipulative father keeps his grown children locked inside, believing they're cursed...
Hammer wanted James Mason in this patriarchal role, and it would have made a big difference since otherwise talented Robert Hardy seems too young and lacks magnetism to mentally-control his bed-ridden daughter Gillian Hills and that beastly son, who shares an incestual lust (with sis) between killings...
The latter which there needed much more of to counter nowhere subplots and ultimately wasted side-characters (like good guy med student Paul Jones and his mad scientist mentor Patrick Magee), who take screen-time away from Hills' victimized ingenue, a Hammer scream queen with very little to scream about...
Darn shame since she alone, with such intense, bewildered beauty, had the most potential to really possess this thing!
No demons, and for one of Hammer's last psychological thrillers, no monsters at all...
Unless you count a young man slaying women along the countryside, not far from a Gothic castle where a manipulative father keeps his grown children locked inside, believing they're cursed...
Hammer wanted James Mason in this patriarchal role, and it would have made a big difference since otherwise talented Robert Hardy seems too young and lacks magnetism to mentally-control his bed-ridden daughter Gillian Hills and that beastly son, who shares an incestual lust (with sis) between killings...
The latter which there needed much more of to counter nowhere subplots and ultimately wasted side-characters (like good guy med student Paul Jones and his mad scientist mentor Patrick Magee), who take screen-time away from Hills' victimized ingenue, a Hammer scream queen with very little to scream about...
Darn shame since she alone, with such intense, bewildered beauty, had the most potential to really possess this thing!