La plus longue nuit du diable (1971)

User Rating:

5.5/10   

Director:

Jean Brismée

Writers:

Jean Brismée (writer)
Pierre-Claude Garnier (writer)

Release Date:

April 1974 (USA)

Genre:

Fantasy | Horror

Tagline:

Can You Be Possessed By The Devil?

Plot:

Six of seven tourists in a east European castle overnight are victims of a helper of the devil. Is Satan willing to spare their souls? |

Plot Keywords:

Devil | Iron Maiden | Nudity | Erotica | Seven Deadly Sins

Cast

Erika Blanc	...	Lisa Müller
Jean Servais	...	Baron von Rhoneberg
Jacques Monseau	...	Father Alvin Sorel (as Jacques Monseu)
Ivana Novak	...	Corinne
Lorenzo Terzon	...	Howard
Shirley Corrigan	...	Regine
Colette Emmanuelle	...	Nancy (as Colette Emmarvelle)
Christian Maillet	...	Ducha
Lucien Raimbourg	...	Mason (as Luciene Raimbourg)
Daniel Emilfork	...	Satan (as Daniele Emilfork)

Also Known As:

Au service du diable
Castle of Death (video title)
La notte piu lunga del diavolo (Italy)
La nuit des pétrifiés
La terrificante notte del demonio
Nightmare of Terror (video title)
Succubus
The Devil Walks at Midnight
The Devil's Longest Night
The Devil's Nightmare (USA)
Vampire Playgirls (USA) (reissue title)

Runtime:

95 min

Country:

Belgium | Italy

Language:

French

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

UK:18 (video rating) (1999) | UK:X (original rating) | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Belgium

Company:

Cetelci S.A.

Trivia:

Each of the seven tourists, represent one of the Seven Deadly Sins.

Movie Connections:

Edited into 42nd Street Forever, Volume 1 (2005) (V)

"DEVIL'S NIGHTMARE will leave its MARK on you!"

A neat little Belgian-Italian horror flick brimming with atmosphere. Complete with a kinky wardrobe, Erika Blanc is perfect as Lisa Miller, the succubus. She displays supreme sensuality in her "normal" guise, then transforms into a murderous demon with such face-pulling, over-the-top relish that your skin will crawl. If she's not enough, Daniel Emilfork is on hand to complete things as a corpselike vision of the devil. The deaths are creative and brutal, the Gothic castle is very creepy, and the ending has a shock-twist that you'll never see coming. Julie sings the haunting theme song, which will stick with you long after the picture is over. The only debit is the moralizing angle, which is faintly offensive, but can be overlooked in light of everything else. Very well done on a small budget and beautifully photographed in wonderfully cheap, grainy color.

I saw this movie on videotape under the title Succubus. This tape is an absolute mess--videoburned title, scenes trimmed, scenes out of order toward the end--and should be avoided. It turns a fun, entertaining Euro-horror into a throughly frustrating experience.

Trivia: Though it was released in Europe in 1971, this film did not hit the U.S. until 1974, when Hemisphere released it as Devil's Nightmare to coattail The Exorcist.