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Curse of the Demon: Directed by Jacques Tourneur. With Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins, Niall MacGinnis, Maurice Denham. American professor John Holden arrives in London for a parapsychology conference, only to find himself investigating the mysterious actions of Devil-worshipper Julian Karswell.
Night of the Demon (U.S. title: Curse of the Demon) is a 1957 British horror film directed by Jacques Tourneur and starring Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins and Niall MacGinnis. It was produced by Hal E. Chester and Frank Bevis, and was adapted from the M. R. James story "Casting the Runes".
American psychologist Dr. John Holden is in London to attend a conference on the dark arts - witchcraft, the occult, devil worship, the paranormal among other such areas - which he and his colleagues at the conference are trying to debunk.
American professor John Holden (Dana Andrews) arrives in London for a conference on parapsychology only to discover that the colleague he was supposed to meet was killed in a...
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Dec 11, 2006 · An anthropologist investigates a devil worshipper who commands a deadly demon.
In director Jacques Tourneur's fourth true horror film (a fantasy horror thriller), an intelligent and thoughtful adaptation of the original ghost story "Casting the Runes" by noted practitioner Montague R. James - about a US psychiatrist's investigation into a Satanic cult in England:
Dec 11, 2007 · Despite some flaws in Charles Bennett’s mostly involving script and some controversial meddling after initial shooting, Curse of the Demon remains one of the eeriest and most haunting films of the fifties – a decade that gave us so many horror classics.
