Satanic themed horror was popular in the 1970s and the British were just as guilty of devil worshipping cinema as anyone else. Here a farm worker, Ralph Gower, finds the remains of a creature in a field. When he returns with a judge (a ridiculously wigged up Patrick Wymark) to check the find, it has disappeared, but Satan’s Daughter (I’ve dated a few of those) Angel Blake finds part of it and leads some of the other teens into pagan ceremonies as they try to bring forth a demon. Tigon’s follow up to Matthew Hopkins : Witchfinder General shares little with Reeves’ film except a nicely realized period setting and a hatred for authority figures. Supernatural forces are at work here and the film correspondingly looks into its world with a natural exuberance far removed from Reeves’ rage. Wynne Simmons’ debut script had to be change from its initial plot of three interconnected stories to one story at the last second, accounting for some of the film’s unfocused, convoluted narrative-cha
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