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Originally Posted by oaxaca  Hmm I think people knock Hammer's 70s output too readily. The company still made incredibly entertaining films. The plots may have become hackneyed, a lack of originality rather than quality, and many films indulged in a bit of wanton nudity to attract the male viewer and upped the blood-letting a little. But despite all this, or because of it  they were still entertaining films, often with good cinematography/direction and I think TO THE DEVIL A DAUGHTER was Hammer bowing out on a high note.  |
I wrote this about To The Devil a Daughter in my review on the
Gothic Thread.
"The ending is by far the worst thing about the film, in the way Widmark defeats Lee's diabolical sorcery - he throws a rock at him, thus banishing the Devil from the Earth. To make matters worse as Widmark picks the unconscious girl up from the alter, director Sykes decides to film this in negative dazzling colours. This terrible non-ending to Hammers final horror film could be looked on as a symbol of British Gothic horror fizzling out, not with a bang but with a whimper."