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 Demons Of The Mind (DVD)
Description: Genre: Horror / Suitable for 18 years and over / Director: Peter Sykes / Actors: Michael Horden, Patrick Magee, Paul ... more  Demons Of The Mind (DVD) ... Jones, Gillian Hills, Yvonne Mitchell ... / DVD released 2007-01-01 at Optimum Home Entertainment / Features of the DVD: Anamorphic, PALNewest Review: ... usual pretty clothes horses (although Paul Jones, the singer of Manfred Mann, could perhaps have been better). Shane Briant, ... more ... an intense screen presence, is especially good as Emil. The older cast members are allowed to act it up a storm. Robert Hardy thankfully doesn't go to the annoying, mannered lengths he does in his later work. Michael Hordern is amazing, doing his usual twitchy, muttering thing, which works very well in the context. Best of all, as ever, is Patrick Magee, a jowly Northern Irish actor with the most astonishing vocal inflections and an incredible raspy voice.
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Demons Of The Mind (DVD): They came to torture an agonised mind (670 words)
by hogsflesh - written on 14.04.08 (Very useful, 70 readings)
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A review of the Hammer Collection DVD. Made in 1972, this is probably the last good (or at least interesting) film that Hammer made. It's one of their very few good films that isn't based explicitly on one of the classic old monsters. It's a very atypical Hammer horror. The rather complicated story involves Baron Zorn (Robert Hardy) and his two children Emil and Elizabeth (Shane Briant and Gillian Hills); all three are insane. Elizabeth has fallen in love with a medical student (Paul Jones), and the Baron has hired a mountebank mesmerist (Patrick Magee!) to try and cure his family. Meanwhile, local girls are being murdered, and a deranged priest ...
