Demons of the mind. 1972.
A doctor discovers two teenager locked in a room by their father and discovers dark secrets while trying to unlock the father's mind.
This is an astonishing film, a near success in every way, a truly thoughtful horror film with a dark twist that is played out well. The story concerns an aristocrat who believes his family line is infested with bad blood. He had married a peasant woman to offset this, and the villagers hold a ceremony to extract the evil.
The house, like most other Hammer horror films gloomy, Gothic and is a metaphor for the mind. It is literally a prison, but also a labyrinth, mirroring the maze created by the disjointed gazes of the occupants. There are some amazing long shots of the house's inside, haunting, vastly empty, a mind off balance.
The acting is on top form even from Patrick Magee as the self proclaimed psychiatrist who opens the mind of his patient and discovers what secrets the father hides as well as trying to cure the children if they are possessed or living a fantasy. Certainly worth a watch.
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