Demons Of The Mind (1972)

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Baron Zorn keeps his teenaged children locked up and drugged, fearing that his insane wife passed along a congenital curse to them before her own suicidal death. Elizabeth escapes for a brief tryst with a local before being recaptured and subjected to a bleeding process to 'draw out the bad blood.' Emil keeps trying to escape, but is thwarted time and again by his aunt Hilda who runs the house like a prison. One reason the siblings have to be kept apart, is their incestuous attraction to each other. Local wenches are being murdered in the woods, and the superstitious peasants think demons are responsible. A wandering Priest dedicates himself to root out the evil, but isn't taken seriously. Arriving at the castle are two more interested parties: Mountebank scientist-huckster Falkenberg stands to make a small fortune if his strange apparatus can cure the children of their inherited evil. young Carl simply wants to rescue Elizabeth. As more murders mount, Falkenberg enlists village lass Inge to play the dead mother in a psycho-drama that he hopes will shock the children from their morbid state; but Baron Zorn's symptoms of derangement soon make it obvious that the doctor is treating the wrong patient... Movie Tagline: They came to torture an agonised mind Title: Demons Of The Mind Release Date: May , 1974 Runtime: 89 mins Genre: Horror All Genres: Horror, Thriller Languages: English Country: UK Colors: Color Sound: Mono IMDB Rating: 5.7 Brimstone Pit Rating: 6.7 - (Rate This Horror Movie) Category: Horror Movies Starting With D MPAA Rating: R Director(s): Peter Sykes Cast: Robert Hardy ...Zorn Shane Briant ...Emil Gillian Hills ...Elizabeth yvonne Mitchell ...Hilda Paul Jones ...Carl Richter Patrick Magee ...Falkenberg Kenneth J. Warren ...Klaus (as Kenneth Warren) Michael Hordern ...Priest Robert Brown ...Fischinger Virginia Wetherell ...Inge Deirdre Costello ...Magda Barry Stanton ...Ernst Sidonie Bond ...Zorn's Wife Thomas Heathcote ...Coachman John Atkinson ...1st Villager George Cormack ...2nd Villager Mary Hignett ...Matronly Woman Sheila Raynor ...Old Crone Jan Adair ...1st Girl Jane Cardew ...2nd Girl Remaining Cast: Producer(s): Michael Carreras Frank Godwin Writer(s): Frank Godwin Christopher Wicking Composer(s): Harry Robertson More Photos from Demons Of The Mind Trailer(s): Demons Of The Mind Horror Film Trailer 1 More Movie Taglines: They came to torture an agonised mind Movie Quote(s): [to his daughter, Elizabeth] Zorn: This is where you should be. Here... with us. Zorn: It can only be the way I say it must be. Priest: I have been led here, I have work to do. But what? Emil: They say they love us, but I could kill them for what they have done to you. Carl: This man may be a genius, but you ought to know... he's a fraud. Falkenberg: It isn't me that's discredited, it's any new ideas... you might as well kill them! Movie Trivia: Robert Hardy replaced Eric Porter who withdrew from the movie to film Hands of the Ripper (1971) which was made simultaneously. Gillian Hills was a last-minute replacement for Marianne Faithfull who was recast due to insurance reasons. The role of Elisabeth was originally intended for famous pop icon Marianne Faithfull. Although the movie was completed in 1971, it sat on a shelf for over a year and was finally released on a double bill with the trashy psycho feature Tower of Evil (1972). The role of Baron Zorn was originally offered to Paul Scofield and James Mason, both of whom turned it down. IMDB Links: » User Comments at imdb.com » More information at imdb.com Keywords: Blood, Incest, Death, Castle, Female Nudity  ...[more] Keywords All: Female Frontal Nudity, Germany, Beautiful Woman, Family Secret, Independent Film Seen it? Rate it Currently 6.70/10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Rating: 6.7 out of 10.0 - 69 votes cast total buy movie on dvd del.icio.us  |  digg  |  reddit Enter your zipcode for movie listings: » BACK TO HORROR MOVIES LIST