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Demons of the Mind

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Plot
Cast
Background
Critical reception
References
Sources
External links

{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2014}}{{Use British English|date=November 2014}}{{Infobox film
| name = Demons of the Mind
| image = Demons of the Mind FilmPoster.jpeg
| alt =
| caption = Theatrical release poster
| director = Peter Sykes
| producer = Michael Carreras
Frank Godwin
| writer = Christopher Wicking
| story = Frank Godwin
| starring = Gillian Hills
Robert Hardy
Patrick Magee
Michael Hordern
Shane Briant
| music = Harry Robinson
| cinematography = Arthur Grant
| editing = Chris Barnes
| studio = Anglo-EMI
Frank Godwin Productions
Hammer Film Productions
| distributor = Anglo-EMI Film Distributors
MGM-EMI
| released = 5 November 1972
| runtime = 89 min.
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| budget = £250,000^[1]
}}

Demons of the Mind is a 1972 British horror film, directed by Peter Sykes and produced Anglo-EMI, Frank Godwin Productions and Hammer Film Productions. It was written by Christopher Wicking, based on a story by Frank Godwin. It was released on 5 November 1972.{{sfn|Hearn|Barnes|2007|p=155}} The cast includes Gillian Hills (playing a role originally intended for Marianne Faithfull), Robert Hardy, Patrick Magee, Michael Hordern and Shane Briant.

Plot

A widower locks up his two children, afraid that they will go mad, as did his wife. He then invites a doctor of dubious reputation to supervise the young people's mental health. Meanwhile, in the vicinity of the house, grisly murders are happening.

Cast

Robert Hardy as Zorn
Shane Briant as Emil
Gillian Hills as Elizabeth
Yvonne Mitchell as Hilda
Paul Jones as Carl Richter
Patrick Magee as Falkenberg
Kenneth J. Warren as Klaus
Michael Hordern as Priest
Robert Brown as Fischinger
Virginia Wetherell as Inge
Deirdre Costello as Magda
Barry Stanton as Ernst
Sidonie Bond as Zorn's Wife
Thomas Heathcote as Coachman
Sheila Raynor as Old crone

Background

The film's working title was Blood Will Have Blood.{{sfn|Hearn|Barnes|2007|p=155}}

"Hammer thought there were too many bloods," said Wicking later. "I don't think anybody knew it was a quote from Shakespeare because they would have said no to that."^[2]

Principal photography took place from 16 August to September 1971.{{sfn|Hearn|Barnes|2007|p=155}}

Peter Sykes was hired after Hammer were impressed by his work on Venom. The movie was based on the life of Franz Mesmer.^[1]

Wicking says "there was a sort of snobbery about" the film "which I think is a bad thing."^[2] He says Sykes wanted Paul Scofield and then Dirk Bogarde and when neither of them wanted to do it Hammer felt they could not ask their usual leading men, Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, and went to Robert Hardy, which Wicking thought was a mistake.^[2]

Critical reception

Time Out called the film "an exotic, Wildean horror story, visually as extravagant and tantalising as a decadent painting" that is "badly let down, though, by some grotesque overacting".^[3] The Hammer Story: The Authorised History of Hammer Films wrote of the film: "oblique, ambitious and suffused with an air of primal dread, Demons of the Mind deserved better."{{sfn|Hearn|Barnes|2007|p=155}}

References

1. ^¹{{cite journal |last=Gilbert |first=Basil |date=July 1977 |title=Peter Sykes |journal=Cinema Papers |page=36}}
2. ^¹²All's Well That Ends: an interview with Chris WickingMonthly Film Bulletin; London Vol. 55, Iss. 658, (Nov 1, 1988): 322.
3. ^{{cite book |editor-last=Milne |editor-first=Tom |year=1991 |title=The Time Out Film Guide |publisher=Penguin Books |edition=Second |page=167}}

Sources

{{cite book |last1=Hearn |first1=Marcus |last2=Barnes |first2=Alan |title=The Hammer Story: The Authorised History of Hammer Films |chapter=Demons of the Mind |publisher=Titan Books |date=September 2007 |edition=Limited |ref=harv |isbn=1 84576 185 5}}

External links

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