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Blood on Satan's Claw (1970)

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After a plowboy accidentally unearths the skeletal remains of a demonic creature, a cult of teenage devil-worshippers emerges in a 17th-century Cornwall farming community, led by the gorgeous temptress Angel (Linda Hayden, who positively smolders). Together, the children begin performing blood sacrifices in order to bring the skeletal demon back to life. The film eventually steers into witch-hunt territory -- in the vein of Michael Reeves' Witchfinder General -- as the superstitious locals use

R, 1 hr. 30 min.

Horror

Directed By: Piers Haggard

Cast

Anthony Ainley
Rev. Fallowfield
Michele Dotrice
Margaret
Denis Gilmore
Howard Goorney
Doctor
Linda Hayden
Angel
James Hayter
Squire Middleton
Avice Landone
Isobel
Charlotte Mitchell
Ellen
Simon Williams
Peter Edmonton
Patrick Wymark
Judge
Barry Andrews
Ralph Gower
Robin Davis
Mark
Wendy Padbury
Cathy
Tamara Ustinov
Rosalind

Critic Reviews for Blood on Satan's Claw

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A little hard to find these days, but well worth searching for, 'Blood on Satan's Claw' is a classic.

June 17, 2008 Full Review Source: ESplatter

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Lucius Gore

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If The Blood on Satan's Claw is a fundamentally conservative film, it's pretty vigorous in depicting Satan's foul mischief.

April 11, 2008 Full Review Source: Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus

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Bryant Frazer

Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus

... But it all seems so silly.

June 20, 2002 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews

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Dennis Schwartz

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excellent gothic horror from the seventies. beautifully shot, wonderfully creepy score, fantastic atmosphere! starring the fiend and a bunch of possessed teenagers! awesome!!

May 19, 2008

Stella Dallas

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A creepy and unsettling British "folk horror" picture. Not to be confused with Hammer offerings with similar period settings, this is less gore & camp and more a forerunner of chillers like the Omen or even exorcist which play on our superstitions and fears of imagined malevolent things that go bump in the night.

December 27, 2010

The Shrewlord

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