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Director
  
Peter Sykes

Music director
  
Harry Robertson

Duration
  

Language
  
English

5.6/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Horror, Thriller

Producer
  
Michael Carreras

Country
  
United Kingdom

Demons of the Mind movie poster

Release date
  
5 November 1972

Writer
  
Christopher Wicking (screenplay), Christopher Wicking (from an original story by), Frank Godwin (from an original story by)

Cast
  
Robert Hardy
(Zorn),
Shane Briant
(Emil),
Gillian Hills
(Elizabeth),
Yvonne Mitchell
(Hilda),
Paul Jones
(Carl Richter),
Patrick Magee
(Falkenberg)

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Tagline
  
They came to torture an agonised mind.

Demons of the Mind is a 1972 British horror film, directed by Peter Sykes and produced Anglo-EMI, Frank Godwin Productions and Hammer Film Productions. It was written by Christopher Wicking, based on a story by Frank Godwin. It was released on 5 November 1972. The cast includes Gillian Hills (playing a role originally intended for Marianne Faithfull), Robert Hardy, Patrick Magee, Michael Hordern and Shane Briant.

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Plot

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A widower locks up his two children, afraid that they will go mad, as did his wife. He then invites a doctor of dubious reputation to supervise the young people's mental health. Meanwhile, in the vicinity of the house, grisly murders are happening.

Cast

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  • Robert Hardy as Zorn
  • Shane Briant as Emil
  • Gillian Hills as Elizabeth
  • Yvonne Mitchell as Hilda
  • Paul Jones as Carl Richter
  • Patrick Magee as Falkenberg
  • Kenneth J. Warren as Klaus
  • Michael Hordern as Priest
  • Robert Brown as Fischinger
  • Virginia Wetherell as Inge
  • Deirdre Costello as Magda
  • Barry Stanton as Ernst
  • Sidonie Bond as Zorn's Wife
  • Thomas Heathcote as Coachman
  • Sheila Raynor as Old crone

    • Background

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    The film's working title was Blood Will Have Blood. Principal photography took place from 16 August to September 1971.

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    Peter Sykes was hired after Hammer were impressed by his work on Venom. The movie was based on the life of Franz Mesmer.

    Critical reception

    Time Out called the film "an exotic, Wildean horror story, visually as extravagant and tantalising as a decadent painting" that is "badly let down, though, by some grotesque overacting". The Hammer Story: The Authorised History of Hammer Films wrote of the film: "oblique, ambitious and suffused with an air of primal dread, Demons of the Mind deserved better."

    References

    Demons of the Mind Wikipedia
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