TO THE DEVIL... A Film Review

Finally saw Hammer's final film, TO THE DEVIL... A DAUGHTER (1976) and, aside from the abrupt, incompetent ending, I'd say that this was one of their best films. I'd enjoyed their earlier Dennis Wheatley adaptation, THE DEVIL RIDES OUT (it's also an excellent book if you get the chance to pick it up), so I was really looking forward to this. The direction and cinematography were first-rate, even if the script did not follow Wheatley's novel. Watching a bloody, demonic "hand puppet" crawl inside Nastassja Kinski's vagina was a bit, er, unexpected in a Hammer film, but after watching a full-grown man birth himself out of one in XTRO, pretty much nothing shocks me anymore, LOL.

The Anchor Bay DVD features the trailer, photo/poster gallery and a lively 24 minute documentary on the making of the film (and the death knell of Hammer) with Christopher Lee and other cast and crew.