The hilarious thing about Peter Sykes being the director of "To the Devil a Daughter" is that his next one was "The Jesus Film". I haven't seen TtDaD in more years than I can remember (I just recall that it was on VHS when I did watch it), but don't recall liking it much. I have that somewhat curious Hammer six-pack you showed, though I later upgraded to the 21-disc set someone else mentioned here, and now I'm trying to get all the Hammer I can get on blu... though to be honest this is not one I'm rushing to invest in. Devil Rides Out (wobbly as the effects can be) is peak Hammer for me, it and the third Quatermass film from the previous year are probably my two favourite Hammer productions. I suspect the runtimes difference you mention are just a case of PAL video speed-up, though (DVD would be running 25fps, the BD at 24fps).
Hello Terry, MAGG, Luna n Lucy (?). Thanks for this video as Janet and I love Christopher Lee. We both think he was terrific in this as a hero and scholar of the obscure and occult. Charles Gray was a fantastic villain as usual and the "witches" actors are perfectly weird. To The Devil...is one I've never seen mostly because of the negative reviews. Nastassja was and is gorgeous but even the VHS box made it look like a waste of time. A suggestion for you, a 1966, 5 part mini series from the BBC called A Bat Out Of Hell . It was considered lost until recently. A suspense thriller with John Thaw and Sylvia Syms that's got a lot of great twists. It's up on Internet Archive and pretty clean too.
Although Wheatley was known as 'The Black Magic Man', only nine of his 60+ books are explicitly about the occult. I can understand why he got annoyed with Hammer, as 'To The Devil - A Daughter', bears scant resemblance to the original novel.
I've spoken with authors about that. The best approach for an author is to take the money and run. Adaptation is never going to really work for the original creator.
I usually watch these two back-to-back, because despite the source material being so tightly linked, they're so dramatically different in style. While The Devil Rides Out feels very late-50s (despite being a decade out, it feels way more like Hammer's early Dracula and Frankenstein stuff than the other things they were doing in 68 -- very chaste, with much of the action taking place on cramped period sets), To The Devil a Daughter feels incredibly 70s (with a wide angle lens and a roving camera, lots of outdoor & urban shots). Even the performances feel 20 years apart rather than 10, and since I appreciate the aesthetics of both eras, seeing them back to back really highlights the differences.
"The Devil Rides Out" is also one of my favorite Hammer horrors. 🙂 "To the Devil a Daughter" on the other hand. 🙁 It's one of a few '70s Hammer films that I'm reluctant to add to the collection.
I had the mid 00's Hammer Collection & To The Devil is one of the films I gave away in a raffle. It had constant rewrite problems, to say nothing of Richard Widmark's winding up of Christopher Lee on set. OTOH maybe one reason it gets so maligned is that for Hammer it's completely atypical.
Luna knocked over a tripod. You should see if she can get a role in the next remake of War of the Worlds. 😀. The ending narration; "In his wisdom the great spirit put cats on the earth".
I love 'The Devil Rides Out', with a couple of provisos (provisoes ? ... quibbles), the dubbed voice for Leon Greene and a few fairly ropey back projection shots. But those apart, top class Hammer horror movie. IMO the golden era of Hammer Horror is bookended by 'The Curse of Frankenstein' in 1957 and this offering in 1968. Thanks for confirming that it was Patrick Allen who dubbed his voice for Leon Greene. For decades I've thought it might have been Allen, and now you've just confirmed it. PS - Gotta mention this … Terry, you chose to telegraph the Tripod Attack with an on-screen warning. Many an old-time movie director would’ve preferred to showcase that as a jump scare. I mean, can you imagine being in the cinema watching Jaws when halfway through, Spielberg flashes up a msg saying ‘Ben Gardner’s bitten off disembodied head in 3…2…1’ OR Ridley Scott putting up the message ‘John Hurt stomach explosion in 3…2…1’. Was never happening LOL … but maybe your remit isn’t to scare the audience
Of course I never felt Mr Lee was more effective than in his performance during 'The Wicker Man' . an intriguing little film. Not available for many years I find it most enjoyable, despite some flaws. By golly he did do some clunkers, but never lost his tremendous dignified presence as an actor.
I'm glad to see Luna has gotten so much better. Guess she was just chasing away evil spirits, lol Hammer horror did have some highs and lows. I don't think I made it through To The Devil A Daughter. Lust Of A Vampire, I think, is the worst. Which is a shame as I love most of the vampire movies they made.
Wasn't the crucifix that scared away the jinn. It got blown away by the sheer ferocity of the duck's unrelenting gaze. Christopher Lee brought gravitas and dedication to everything. He could have played a piece of furniture and scared our pants off.
That last Hammer film (did not realize that it was such) was pretty cool -- I saw that *many* years ago. Christopher Lee always bring so much 'nobility' and yet there is also so much "he's not really a good guy, is he?!?" that he also brings! Hey Terry -- totally off-topic -- what do you consider the best film version of "The Nutcracker" that combines the music and ballet *AND* does a 'cinematic' telling of the story?
@@terrytalksmovies -- Wow! With all of the Sci-Fi and radical horror elements in the story???? Hmmmm -- I'm not selling it very well, am I????? Cheers!
Interestingly enough, the inspiration for Dr Strange came from the character of Dr Craven from the Poe/Corman film The Raven - played by Christopher Lee's good friend Vincent Price.
I have many Hammer films, my first big collection was 21 film set, that has those two films, I have the blu rays of those films too. I totally agree with to the devil a Daughter, I thought could have better, since money was tight and end of an era. West German company took all their profits from the film . The Devil Rides out the film really works, Lee wanted to do another film with the same character, of course never happen, I did like The Lost Continent based On Uncharted Seas. I read couple books, I thought bit ordinarily. I hope do more Hammer films soon.
I haven't seen any of the new Hammer films, any good? Seen both of these, yes Devil Rides Out is far better than the other. I bought both of these novels but on the big "to read" pile right now. Matheson wrote some fantastic screenplays. Nice to see Lee play a hero for once. I recently rewatched The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane which I think has 2 versions and the 2nd time I saw one where there's a nude scene. Jodie Foster is naked from behind although it's actually her older (& legal I guess) sister. One wonders why they felt this was necessary, seems to be a 70s thing.
I remember watching TO THE DEVIL, A DAUGHTER, long after I saw THE DEVIL'S BRIDE (US title for THE DEVIL RIDES OUT), and being incredibly disappointed with how prosaic the direction was.
kind of an odd question, but what is the piece of music you played at the beginning of your video? I keep hearing it in other youtube videos. Thanks, Terry.
@@terrytalksmovies Those stories do a lot to build a background in "White Magic," in those stories built around Pennsylvania Dutch folk magic (even though the stories are set further south in Moore County, NC. i suspect the movie is based more on Orthodox/Catholic/Anglican practices.
The two things probably overlap with Albertus Magnus, a Doctor of the Church and Scholastic Philosopher. Not your cup of tea, but interesting from an historical POV.
I think I should add that I own all of DW's novels. I read a couple, and then asked a bloke at a car boot sale, who specialised in old paperbacks, if he could find me any more - the writing style was similar to Ian Fleming's, and the books were, although 'difficult' to validate nowadays, in some regards, a lot of fun. "Leave it with me." Said Peter. I got a text from him a few days later, saying that he had found "A couple". At the next car boot, he got out a tea chest, which contained all of DW's novels and anthologies. I was gobsmacked. "Nobody wants them" Peter told me. I wanted them. They cost me, and this was 60+ books, some unread, £25. Sale of the century. I enjoyed them all, bar his only 'modern' science fiction story, 'Star Of Ill Omen'. It is, and I can't state this any less bluntly, bloody awful. 😆😆😆
@@terrytalksmovies - I've had that happen a couple of times - the above, and a set of books by HG Wells, published by Penguin in 1946, shortly after he died - and was immediately conflicted - do I want them all, if the price is right?* Do I select a few, and not know if I'll ever be able find the rest again? Aaaargh! *They are now on one of my bookshelves. A tad more than £25, but, yeah. I had to have them. 😆😆😆
Ah, the old Copyright Claim Gag! I'm waiting for 23&me to begin suing their former 'clients' for DNA copyright infringement. Shylock's "pound of flesh" sounds like an appropriate 'legal remedy.' Stay safe and stay just this side of the law mate!
All good. I remediated the video and reupped it. Pain in the arse because the copyright claim hit while I was asleep. I could've fixed it before it released if I had known.
@@terrytalksmovies The Uncle Fester strategy. "Shoot 'em in the back!" I don't envy you navigating the shoals and reefs of the "Creative's Internet." Did you ever get the trophy? If so, give us a peek, will ya? Continue on a safe path.
Catholic horror, The Exorcist notwithstanding, is one of my least favourite horror genres - it just seems to me to play into the Church's preposterous and delusional claims - because they make a good story - and to divert attention from the true horror. Charles Williams (of The Inklings) wrote a series of interestingly silly Christian occult thrillers back in the 1940s - he was a kind of thinking person's Dennis Wheatley - which would fit your vision of a modern Christian occult film rather well. I remember thinking back when The Da Vinci Code was a thing (Williams deals with the Holy Grail and Knights Templar and all that nonsense) that a good filmmaker could adapt Williams quite succesfully...
@@terrytalksmovies Williams took it seriously, too, but he was a much more interesting and intellectually acute writer, even if he came to see himself as a kind of Anglican Love Guru before his early death...
_The Devil Rides Out_ is the good good stuff. Love the Inter-War middle class Satanism vibe of it. Did not need to see Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee CBE CStJ's O-face...
Wheatley's novels, even if you can overlook how obnoxiously bigoted they are, are almost impossible to adapt & incredibly badly written nonsense; The Ka of Gifford Hillary has some of the worst writing ever! The Welsh Scientist, Prof. Evans ( '''Sopsen Fach!! Boyo!! I Av Perfected The Death Ray, So I Av!!'', just so you know he's Welsh ), Gifford's wife ( ''having a disorder of the glands that made her a nymphomaniac''.... I Am Not Making This Up ). You read them with a constant WTF? face. The filming of TTDAD had to be re-ordered after Shane Briant, who would have played Astoroth, read the script & decided he had better things to do.
I'm always excited when a new TTM vid drops because I know I'm about to learn something new and fascinating.
I'm glad you like it. Tell your friends. 😉😀
The hilarious thing about Peter Sykes being the director of "To the Devil a Daughter" is that his next one was "The Jesus Film". I haven't seen TtDaD in more years than I can remember (I just recall that it was on VHS when I did watch it), but don't recall liking it much. I have that somewhat curious Hammer six-pack you showed, though I later upgraded to the 21-disc set someone else mentioned here, and now I'm trying to get all the Hammer I can get on blu... though to be honest this is not one I'm rushing to invest in.
Devil Rides Out (wobbly as the effects can be) is peak Hammer for me, it and the third Quatermass film from the previous year are probably my two favourite Hammer productions. I suspect the runtimes difference you mention are just a case of PAL video speed-up, though (DVD would be running 25fps, the BD at 24fps).
Sometimes you take the gigs you're offered, I suppose.
1968 was definitely a prime year for Hammer.
I've never seen To the Devil a Daughter but I do love The Devil Rides out.
TDRO is definitely the better of the two.
Hello Terry, MAGG, Luna n Lucy (?). Thanks for this video as Janet and I love Christopher Lee. We both think he was terrific in this as a hero and scholar of the obscure and occult. Charles Gray was a fantastic villain as usual and the "witches" actors are perfectly weird. To The Devil...is one I've never seen mostly because of the negative reviews. Nastassja was and is gorgeous but even the VHS box made it look like a waste of time. A suggestion for you, a 1966, 5 part mini series from the BBC called A Bat Out Of Hell . It was considered lost until recently. A suspense thriller with John Thaw and Sylvia Syms that's got a lot of great twists. It's up on Internet Archive and pretty clean too.
Nice! BTW, it's Sally, not Lucy. Thanks for the tip!
Although Wheatley was known as 'The Black Magic Man', only nine of his 60+ books are explicitly about the occult. I can understand why he got annoyed with Hammer, as 'To The Devil - A Daughter', bears scant resemblance to the original novel.
I've spoken with authors about that. The best approach for an author is to take the money and run. Adaptation is never going to really work for the original creator.
I usually watch these two back-to-back, because despite the source material being so tightly linked, they're so dramatically different in style. While The Devil Rides Out feels very late-50s (despite being a decade out, it feels way more like Hammer's early Dracula and Frankenstein stuff than the other things they were doing in 68 -- very chaste, with much of the action taking place on cramped period sets), To The Devil a Daughter feels incredibly 70s (with a wide angle lens and a roving camera, lots of outdoor & urban shots). Even the performances feel 20 years apart rather than 10, and since I appreciate the aesthetics of both eras, seeing them back to back really highlights the differences.
To The Devil really needed a script doctor and enough money put toward the climax. It would've been much better with those additions.
"The Devil Rides Out" is also one of my favorite Hammer horrors. 🙂 "To the Devil a Daughter" on the other hand. 🙁 It's one of a few '70s Hammer films that I'm reluctant to add to the collection.
I can understand why.
I had the mid 00's Hammer Collection & To The Devil is one of the films I gave away in a raffle. It had constant rewrite problems, to say nothing of Richard Widmark's winding up of Christopher Lee on set. OTOH maybe one reason it gets so maligned is that for Hammer it's completely atypical.
Luna knocked over a tripod. You should see if she can get a role in the next remake of War of the Worlds. 😀. The ending narration; "In his wisdom the great spirit put cats on the earth".
She has to get to know the tripod first.
@@terrytalksmovies She also needs to learn that when the ON AIR sign is illuminated, she stays clear of the equipment
I love 'The Devil Rides Out', with a couple of provisos (provisoes ? ... quibbles), the dubbed voice for Leon Greene and a few fairly ropey back projection shots. But those apart, top class Hammer horror movie. IMO the golden era of Hammer Horror is bookended by 'The Curse of Frankenstein' in 1957 and this offering in 1968. Thanks for confirming that it was Patrick Allen who dubbed his voice for Leon Greene. For decades I've thought it might have been Allen, and now you've just confirmed it.
PS - Gotta mention this … Terry, you chose to telegraph the Tripod Attack with an on-screen warning. Many an old-time movie director would’ve preferred to showcase that as a jump scare. I mean, can you imagine being in the cinema watching Jaws when halfway through, Spielberg flashes up a msg saying ‘Ben Gardner’s bitten off disembodied head in 3…2…1’ OR Ridley Scott putting up the message ‘John Hurt stomach explosion in 3…2…1’.
Was never happening LOL … but maybe your remit isn’t to scare the audience
I was really into the performance head space when Luna knocked over the tripod. She's annoying and loveable, so what can ya do?
Of course I never felt Mr Lee was more effective than in his performance during 'The Wicker Man' . an intriguing little film. Not available for many years I find it most enjoyable, despite some flaws.
By golly he did do some clunkers, but never lost his tremendous dignified presence as an actor.
Lord Summerisle was a great role. Tongue-in-cheek and scary both.
He was fond of saying "Every actor has to make terrible films; the trick is not to be terrible in them."
I'm glad to see Luna has gotten so much better. Guess she was just chasing away evil spirits, lol Hammer horror did have some highs and lows. I don't think I made it through To The Devil A Daughter. Lust Of A Vampire, I think, is the worst. Which is a shame as I love most of the vampire movies they made.
I like Lust For A Vampire because it is so incredibly silly and weird.
Wasn't the crucifix that scared away the jinn. It got blown away by the sheer ferocity of the duck's unrelenting gaze.
Christopher Lee brought gravitas and dedication to everything. He could have played a piece of furniture and scared our pants off.
Lee was a true pro.
That last Hammer film (did not realize that it was such) was pretty cool -- I saw that *many* years ago. Christopher Lee always bring so much 'nobility' and yet there is also so much "he's not really a good guy, is he?!?" that he also brings! Hey Terry -- totally off-topic -- what do you consider the best film version of "The Nutcracker" that combines the music and ballet *AND* does a 'cinematic' telling of the story?
Dunno. I'm not sure I've ever seen a Nutcracker movie.
@@terrytalksmovies -- Wow! With all of the Sci-Fi and radical horror elements in the story???? Hmmmm -- I'm not selling it very well, am I????? Cheers!
Interestingly enough, the inspiration for Dr Strange came from the character of Dr Craven from the Poe/Corman film The Raven - played by Christopher Lee's good friend Vincent Price.
I love the early Ditko Dr Strange illustrations, too.
I have many Hammer films, my first big collection was 21 film set, that has those two films, I have the blu rays of those films too. I totally agree with to the devil a Daughter, I thought could have better, since money was tight and end of an era. West German company took all their profits from the film . The Devil Rides out the film really works, Lee wanted to do another film with the same character, of course never happen, I did like The Lost Continent based On Uncharted Seas. I read couple books, I thought bit ordinarily. I hope do more Hammer films soon.
I might find some Hammer to do. If I di, I'll be looking at some obscurities.
Some of their thrillers
I'll keep an eye out (not literally) for both of these, but I doubt I'll purchase either. Still, great episode even with the widescreen (and Luna).
Thanks! The cinematic has been removed from the Sony ZV-1 Mark 2
I haven't seen any of the new Hammer films, any good? Seen both of these, yes Devil Rides Out is far better than the other. I bought both of these novels but on the big "to read" pile right now. Matheson wrote some fantastic screenplays. Nice to see Lee play a hero for once. I recently rewatched The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane which I think has 2 versions and the 2nd time I saw one where there's a nude scene. Jodie Foster is naked from behind although it's actually her older (& legal I guess) sister. One wonders why they felt this was necessary, seems to be a 70s thing.
There were a lot of rock spiders in film making at the time. I put it down to that.
Duc and Duke are pronounced the same. Sorry about the pronunciation pointers. 😁
Yep. I should've called him Nicholas. 😀
@@terrytalksmovies😅😅
Was there an oops and you had to reload this?
Yeah, some bastard hit the music with a copyright claim. Had to alter and reup it to keep monetization.
I remember watching TO THE DEVIL, A DAUGHTER, long after I saw THE DEVIL'S BRIDE (US title for THE DEVIL RIDES OUT), and being incredibly disappointed with how prosaic the direction was.
Yeah, Peter Sykes' direction was workmanlike at best.
Denholm is pronounce Den-Um, almost a pair of jeans. 😁
Silly name anyway but thanks for the correction. 😀
kind of an odd question, but what is the piece of music you played at the beginning of your video? I keep hearing it in other youtube videos. Thanks, Terry.
It's the music from Nintendo Wii consoles. Works well for problem-free TH-cam videos.
@@terrytalksmovies I was wondering about that. Thanks for clearing that up!
Was the Duc's first name "Howard."
I see what you did there, but no, it's Nicholas.
Cf. Manley Wade Wellman, and the Long Lost Friend of Albertus Magnus and "Silver John the Balladeer/"
Nice deep cut references there.
@@terrytalksmovies Those stories do a lot to build a background in "White Magic," in those stories built around Pennsylvania Dutch folk magic (even though the stories are set further south in Moore County, NC.
i suspect the movie is based more on Orthodox/Catholic/Anglican practices.
The two things probably overlap with Albertus Magnus, a Doctor of the Church and Scholastic Philosopher. Not your cup of tea, but interesting from an historical POV.
Widmark was a: !) good actor; 2) a decent guy; and 3) a guy who took little crap.
He was always good value in cinema.
I think I should add that I own all of DW's novels. I read a couple, and then asked a bloke at a car boot sale, who specialised in old paperbacks, if he could find me any more - the writing style was similar to Ian Fleming's, and the books were, although 'difficult' to validate nowadays, in some regards, a lot of fun.
"Leave it with me." Said Peter.
I got a text from him a few days later, saying that he had found "A couple". At the next car boot, he got out a tea chest, which contained all of DW's novels and anthologies. I was gobsmacked.
"Nobody wants them" Peter told me.
I wanted them. They cost me, and this was 60+ books, some unread, £25. Sale of the century.
I enjoyed them all, bar his only 'modern' science fiction story, 'Star Of Ill Omen'. It is, and I can't state this any less bluntly, bloody awful. 😆😆😆
A great haul, that one! That's like when I went to Hay-On-Wye and found an entire vast wall of Jules Verne editions. Mindblowing.
@@terrytalksmovies - I've had that happen a couple of times - the above, and a set of books by HG Wells, published by Penguin in 1946, shortly after he died - and was immediately conflicted - do I want them all, if the price is right?* Do I select a few, and not know if I'll ever be able find the rest again? Aaaargh!
*They are now on one of my bookshelves. A tad more than £25, but, yeah. I had to have them. 😆😆😆
Ah, the old Copyright Claim Gag! I'm waiting for 23&me to begin suing their former 'clients' for DNA copyright infringement. Shylock's "pound of flesh" sounds like an appropriate 'legal remedy.'
Stay safe and stay just this side of the law mate!
All good. I remediated the video and reupped it. Pain in the arse because the copyright claim hit while I was asleep. I could've fixed it before it released if I had known.
@@terrytalksmovies The Uncle Fester strategy. "Shoot 'em in the back!" I don't envy you navigating the shoals and reefs of the "Creative's Internet." Did you ever get the trophy? If so, give us a peek, will ya? Continue on a safe path.
@@terrytalksmovies -- Just asking -- is there a way to check against copyright before uploading/making your videos public?
Catholic horror, The Exorcist notwithstanding, is one of my least favourite horror genres - it just seems to me to play into the Church's preposterous and delusional claims - because they make a good story - and to divert attention from the true horror.
Charles Williams (of The Inklings) wrote a series of interestingly silly Christian occult thrillers back in the 1940s - he was a kind of thinking person's Dennis Wheatley - which would fit your vision of a modern Christian occult film rather well. I remember thinking back when The Da Vinci Code was a thing (Williams deals with the Holy Grail and Knights Templar and all that nonsense) that a good filmmaker could adapt Williams quite succesfully...
Wheatley took it all very seriously.
@@terrytalksmovies Williams took it seriously, too, but he was a much more interesting and intellectually acute writer, even if he came to see himself as a kind of Anglican Love Guru before his early death...
_The Devil Rides Out_ is the good good stuff. Love the Inter-War middle class Satanism vibe of it. Did not need to see Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee CBE CStJ's O-face...
LOL. I don't do honorifics for anyone, so you won't see Sir, Lord or Lady on the channel, but Lee was always good value.
Wheatley's novels, even if you can overlook how obnoxiously bigoted they are, are almost impossible to adapt & incredibly badly written nonsense; The Ka of Gifford Hillary has some of the worst writing ever! The Welsh Scientist, Prof. Evans ( '''Sopsen Fach!! Boyo!! I Av Perfected The Death Ray, So I Av!!'', just so you know he's Welsh ), Gifford's wife ( ''having a disorder of the glands that made her a nymphomaniac''.... I Am Not Making This Up ). You read them with a constant WTF? face. The filming of TTDAD had to be re-ordered after Shane Briant, who would have played Astoroth, read the script & decided he had better things to do.
The script also needed a LOT of work.