A baby from Hell

To the Devil a Daughter (1976)

Last movie from the Hammer Collection is also the second to last movie Hammer made and their last horror movie before going bankrupt. It's a story about a young nun who gets possessed by an excommunicated priest while an American occult novelist tries to save her from the group of Satanists. The movie is supposedly based on Dennis Wheatley's book by the same name, but it really has nothing much to do with it. The story has it's moments, but especially the ending is such an anti-climax that it's a bit too uneven to work. Actually as the documentary on the disc says the original ending was cut from the movie and the new ending was just edited together from what they had. The cast is quite great with Christopher Lee and Richard Widmark as the most notable. The movie has it's moments and is nicely twisted at parts, but it's just a bit too uneven to make it a good one. Surely worth the watch for Hammer fans, but I doubt anyone else will get much out of it. The document on the DVD, To the Devil... The Death of Hammer, is well worth the watch. There's also Eddie Powell interview and a trailer as extras, no subtitles.
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