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Koukol 5	DEVILS OF DARKNESS	Lead	[-]
(07/19/08 4:04 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Tags : None Wow...what a boring, boring, boring film. It looked good in color but what a boring...
John Bernhard		#1	[-]
(07/19/08 5:16 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	It's a sleeper for sure ( in the wrong way ), but I enjoyed Carole Grey's vengeful bitch routine. Don't think I'd have made it to the end without her. Last Edited By: John Bernhard 07/19/08 5:32 PM. Edited 1 times.
Jeffrey Allen Rydell		#2	[-]
(07/19/08 5:28 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	I really kinda dug this admittedly pretty dull flick. - Jeff
Koukol 5		#3	[-]
(07/19/08 8:11 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Some of my favourite movies are British but I gotta say... I don't think this British filmaker likes horror films. I mean why else do they not show any blood or fangs IN A COLOURED FILM? (except, of course coming from the stupid painting)
Jeffrey Allen Rydell		#4	[-]
(07/19/08 8:20 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Koukol 5 wrote: I mean why else do they not show any blood or fangs IN A COLOURED FILM? Wait - are you talking about BLACULA now?! - Jeff
Rick		#5	[-]
(07/19/08 9:36 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	I first caught DEVILS OF DARKNESS when it was released in the U.S. (in black and white) back in 1965. It was double-featured with CURSE OF THE FLY--a Carole Grey extravaganza! Back then, when I was 15, I actually sorta liked the vampire film (I remember distinctly preferring it to CURSE). Not long ago, thanks to Fox Movie Channel, I finally got to see it again, in color this time, and I cannot imagine what I found to like about it when I was a teenager. It really is a monumental bore.
dobrien		#6	[-]
(07/20/08 7:30 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	I saw this on TV over 25 years ago and found it deeply tedious. Director Lance Comfort did much better - or at least more interesting - work, such as 'Hatter's Castle' and even 'Old Mother Riley Detective'. 'Devils of Darkness' was his penultimate film; maybe he'd just run out of steam. 'Curse of the Fly' is in a different class altogether; solidly crafted throughout, with some extraordinary moments.
Imhoteps Ashes		#7	[-]
(07/20/08 8:41 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Funny... First words to pop into my head on seeing this topic really were "boring, boring, boring!" It's a hunka junk. I'm sure better prints exist than the one I saw on television, but the colours are drab and poorly-utilised. A Hungarian vampire is charming, but a French one just smarmy and annoying. The plot seemed to drag on forever, a mystery story we already know the answer to. The peasants are particularly bad. They worked for Universal thirty years earlier in black-and-white, but they're just an embarrassment here. Not planning a second view.

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