Goregirl’s Video Review: Night of the Demon (1957)
I review the 1957 film Night of the Demon directed by Jacques Tourneur and starring Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins and Niall MacGinnis. A highly entertaining creature feature from the director of the Brilliant Cat People and I Walked with a Zombie!
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December 15, 2011 at 12:45 pm
I watched this as a kid and absolutely loved it – which is strange because creature-feature films have never worked on me. I found it brilliantly atmospheric, the story gripping and I wasn’t disappointed by the monster.
It’s based on the M.R. James tale, Casting the Runes – hard to fail with that sort of source material!
December 15, 2011 at 3:34 pm
Jacques T rocks…if anyone can make a creature feature work it is him. A really beautiful film. I had no idea it was based on a book. I’ll have to check it out!
December 18, 2011 at 10:06 am
Enjoyed your review. I write about Curse of the Demon in Hollywood Enigma: Dana Andrews that is forthcoming from University Press of Missisippi in the fall of 2012.
December 18, 2011 at 1:31 pm
M. R. James is one of my favorite writers, and
I liked this inspiration, the climate between realism and
unreal. Great atmosphere, even the creature is made
well.
December 20, 2011 at 5:00 pm
I feel I should have said more about the atmosphere. I always seem to leave some details out of these video reviews. I will definitely pick up the book!
January 31, 2012 at 8:06 am
[...] which was Reptilicus (1961). Six films I reviewed were not first viewings; Les Diaboliques (1955), Night of the Demon (1957), Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959), The Brides of Dracula (1960), Jigoku (1960) and Godzilla (1954 [...]