Curse of the Demon (Night of the Demon) (1958)

My Top 30 Foreign Horror Films (Non-USA) (30 movies items)

"United Kingdom"

Films Watched In The Year Of The Tiger (2022) (103 movies items)

"25.3. One of my favourite supernatural thrillers of all time. The suspense is so well handled here that the messy middle part doesn't bother me at all."

Elokuvat 2020 (530 movies items)

"Pirkkakopio Alistair Crowleysta on mustan magian kanssa pelleilessään saavuttanut yhteyden saatananmoiseen babylonialaiseen tuliperkeleeseen, jonka hän pystyy usuttamaan vihollistensa kimppuun pienellä paperilapulla, johon on kirjoitettu riimuja. Skeptinen, viinaanmenevä Dana Andrews saapuu ameriikoista setvimään soppaa eikä ota uskoakseen tapahtumain yliluonnolliseen ulottuvuuteen. Jacques Tournierin kauhun perusteos paaluttaa monet perkeleelliset peruskäsitteet valtavirtaelokuvan hi"

2019 Diary: February (15 movies items)

" A somewhat silly film and yet it is a lot of fun. Charming for sure, a product of its time- the skeptic wanting to embrace science at one point performs a hypnotism as evidence to debunk a cult. This sure is 1957. But it's got some nice shots, I am especially fond of the demon appearing from a distance to take its first victim near the beginning of the movie, and how the antagonist spends a decent chunk of time in clown makeup. The story is not anything new, in fact it follows the gothic horror"

Slant’s 100 Greatest Horror Films – 2018 Edition (100 movies items)

"With Night of the Demon, Jacques Tourneur pits logic against the boundless mysteries of the supernatural, focusing not on the fear of the unknown and unseen, but the fear of accepting and confronting the inexplicable. After asking Dana Andrews’s comically hardheaded Dr. Holden how can one differentiate between the powers of darkness and the powers of the mind, Niall MacGinnis’s wily satanic cult leader conjures up a storm of epic proportions to prove to the pragmatic doctor that the power of"

2017: Films I've Watched in October (31 movies items)

"First Watched 10/2/2017"

Movies Watched in 2017 (302 movies items)

"October 23rd Directed by: Jacques Tourneur"

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" Despite significant changes from the M. R. James short story from which it is adapted (the story, for example, does not have a corporeal monster, and the monster in the film has been singled out as the movie's sole weakness), Night of the Demon still manages to be a cracking good ghost story, one that pays dutiful homage to its source. "

Watched in 2016 (424 movies items)

"Alku oli lupaava, mutta kuten Nosoki sanoikin jo, tässä ei tapahtunut sen jälkeen juuri mitään."

Watched in 2016 (247 movies items)

"14.8. Jacques Tourneurin demonielokuva alkaa lupaavasti oikein näyttävällä demonihärvelillä. Sen jälkeen jäyhäleukainen jenkkimies tutkii asioita lähestulkoon tappavan tylsästi. Erikoistehosteet ovat komeita ja irvokkaan koomisia, ja välillä elokuvan typeryys naurattaa ääneen, mutta suurimman osan ajasta minulla oli vain tylsää."

Petri's Movie Diary - 2016 Edition (151 movies items)

" 19.6.2016"

Watched in 2016 (93 movies items)

"19.6."