To The Devil A Daughter (1976, Peter Sykes)
I put my hands up here and say I do not rate Wheatley at all. His prose is stuffy and riddled with snobbery imho. Having said that the cherubic glee that Lee exudes during a birthing sequence
lifted this viewing. Beautiful plumage squire! See you can polish a turd
.
A populist debunker of current occultist trends is sweatily tasked by Denholm Elliot (at his fidgety best here
) with rescuing his estranged child from a right bleedin' bunch of cults and no mistaking!
Part paid with deutschmarks, the film is saddled with the albatross that is Natassia Kinski. Christus she is terrible.
. And that ending
killed Hammer stone dead in my opinion. But it was nice to see an actual human on fire as well. So ... you win some .....