Demons of the Mind
Brief Synopsis
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Baron Zorn (Robin Hardy) keeps his teenaged children locked up and drugged, fearing that his insane wife passed along a congenital curse to them before her own suicidal death. Elizabeth (Gillian Hills) escapes for a brief tryst with a local before being recaptured and subjected to a bleeding process to 'draw out the bad blood.' Emil (Shane Bryant) keeps trying to escape, but is thwarted time and again by his aunt Hilda (Yvonne Mitchell) who runs the house like a prison. One reason the siblings have to be kept apart, is their incestuous attraction to each other. Local wenches are being murdered in the woods, and the superstitious peasants think demons are responsible. A wandering Priest (Michael Hordern) dedicates himself to root out the evil, but isn't taken seriously. Arriving at the castle are two more interested parties: Mountebank scientist-huckster Falkenberg stands to make a small fortune if his strange apparatus can cure the children of their inherited evil. Young Carl (Paul Jones) simply wants to rescue Elizabeth. As more murders mount, Falkenberg enlists village lass Inge (Virginia Wetherell) to play the dead mother in a psycho-drama that he hopes will shock the children from their morbid state; but Baron Zorn's symptoms of derangement soon make it obvious that the doctor is treating the wrong patient...
Cast & Crew
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Peter Sykes
Director
Shane Briant
Jane Cardew
Thomas Heathcote
Patrick Magee
Yvonne Mitchell
Film Details
MPAA Rating
Genre
Drama
Horror
Release Date
1971
Technical Specs
Duration
1h 29m
Color
Color (Eastmancolor)
Synopsis
A young noblewoman and her brother are imprisoned by their unstable father, who's convinced they're afflicted with the family's hereditary insanity.
Director
Peter Sykes
Director
Cast
Shane Briant
Jane Cardew
Thomas Heathcote
Patrick Magee
Yvonne Mitchell
Deirdre Costello
Robert Hardy
Mary Hignett
Michael Hordern
Gillian Hills
Virginia Wetherell
Sidonie Bond
Kenneth J. Warren
Barry Stanton
Robert Brown
Jan Adair
Paul Jones
Sheila Raynor
Crew
Len Abbott
Sound
Chris Barnes
Editor
Trevor Crole-rees
Makeup
Frank Godwin
Producer
Frank Godwin
Story By
Arthur Grant
Director Of Photography
Philip Martell
Music
Ted Morley
Assistant Director
Christopher Neame
Production Manager
John Purchese
Sound
Harry Robinson
Music
Roy Skeggs
Production Supervisor
Michael Stringer
Art Director
Christopher Wicking
Story By
Christopher Wicking
Screenplay
Film Details
MPAA Rating
Genre
Drama
Horror
Release Date
1971
Technical Specs
Duration
1h 29m
Color
Color (Eastmancolor)
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Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States 1971
Released in United States 1971
