Devils of Darkness
1965 film by Lance Comfort
Devils of Darkness is a 1965 British horror film directed by Lance Comfort and starring William Sylvester, Hubert Noël and Carole Gray. It was written by Lyn Fairhurst. It was the last feature film directed by Comfort.
Plot
Count Sinistre was put to death in the 16th century for his evil deeds, but rose from the dead. He later killed gypsy girl Tania, whom he then raised from the tomb and married. In 1964, he attacks again, at a small village where Paul Baxter and friends are on holiday. He murders three of Baxter's friends. Baxter, initially skeptical of the supernatural nature of the killings, becomes suspicious and stays in town with a talisman belonging to Sinistre taken from the scene of one of the murders. Sinistre pursues Baxter in an attempt to recover the talisman and murders Baxter's acquaintances along the way.
Cast
William Sylvester as Paul Baxter
Hubert Noël as Count Sinistre
Carole Gray as Tania
Tracy Reed as Karen Steele
Diana Decker as Madeleine Braun
Rona Anderson as Anne Forest
Peter Illing as Inspector Malin
Gerard Heinz as Bouvier, hotel manager
Brian Oulton as the Colonel
Walter Brown as Bruno
Eddie Byrne as Dr.
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