Night Of The Demon [1958] (DVD)

Night Of The Demon [1958] (DVD): Where does imagination end and reality begin? (942 words)
by hogsflesh - written on 01.12.06 (Very useful, 364 readings)
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(This is a review of just the film. There are two films called Night of the Demon. The one I’m reviewing here is the classic British horror movie from 1957 rather than the entertaining video nasty where a homicidal Bigfoot tears off a man’s penis.) This is a fantastic British horror. Based on the story ‘Casting the Runes’ by MR James, it’s still pretty damn suspenseful, despite its age. John Holden, an American scientist, comes to London to participate in a conference on the supernatural. He’s a non-believer, and is determined to expose an occultist named Karswell as a fraud. But the last scientist who tried to take on Karswell died in mysterious circumstances ...

Scariest B & W movie ever made? (378 words)
by Fu-Manchu - written on 13.12.00 (Very useful, 167 readings)
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This 1957 masterpiece was way ahead of its time, and remains a genuinely scary horror movie. Working with an intelligent and witty script, a simple Twilight Zone-style central premise, Tourneur uses his trademark slow-slow-fast method to crank up the tension and provide some well timed jumps. Tourneur practically invented the 'false shock' in his earlier classic, The Cat People. Nowadays teen slashers are littered with friends jumping out on one another, cats leaping out of the dark, etc, etc. Dana Andrews is his usual laconic self as the sceptical scientist, arriving in England for a conference on the paranormal. At this conference, suave ...