The Blood on Satan's Claw

1971 96 min ★ 6.2 Horror

After a landsman in 18th century England discovers a corpse covered in fur buried in a field, the town becomes infected by "the devil's skin," leading the local children to engage in demonic rituals and criminal behavior.

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Cast

Patrick Wymark

The Judge

Linda Hayden

Angel Blake

Barry Andrews

Ralph Gower

Michele Dotrice

Margaret

Wendy Padbury

Cathy Vespers

Anthony Ainley

Reverend Fallowfield

Charlotte Mitchell

Ellen Vespers

Tamara Ustinov

Rosalind Barton

Simon Williams

Peter Edmonton

James Hayter

Squire Middleton

Details

Director

Piers Haggard

Tagline

"A chill-filled festival of horror!"

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Budget

$140,000

Production

Tigon British Film Productions, Chilton Films

Reviews

J

John Chard

October 18, 2019

★ 7/10

Tigon's Talons. Out of Tigon Productions comes The Blood On Satan's Claw. Directed by Piers Haggard (who co-writes with Robert Wynne-Simmons) it stars Patrick Wymark, Linda Hayden, Barry Andrews, Michele Dotrice & Wendy Padbury. Story is set in rural 17th century England and sees a village fall under demonic possession after a living one eyed skull is unearthed by the local ploughman. Well ...

W

Wuchak

March 27, 2020

★ 6/10

***Creepy, unsettling, unconventional, realistic and artistic, but also tedious*** In the early 1700s, devil worship rears its sinister head in a village in England. Barry Andrews (who looks like Roger Daltrey) plays the young man who initially acquires evidence of the deviltry while Patrick Wymark plays the investigator and Anthony Ainley the minister. The young females include Tamara Ustinov ...