My rating might be quite harsh but except for a few scenes I didn't find this movie an enjoyable experience. Even though Deborah Kerr does her best to carry the movie like she did marvelously in The Innocents here she is is not really given much of a story to work with nor are the other characters very interesting. Except for Sharon Tate as Odile who made a great (and seductive) witch. The scene where she hypnotized Kerr's character Catherine is one of the best scenes, the other being Catherine getting chased by those devil worshippers in the woods and getting stuck. Unfortunately Tate has very limited screen time. David Niven as Catherine's husband Philippe seems to accept his fate passively and right from the start and also looks rather uninterested the whole movie. Donald Pleasence looks creepy as the priest Pere Dominique but this doesn't really add to the story nor does David Hemmings as some kind of evil Willem Tell. A forgotten movie which best remains forgotten in my opinion.
Review of Eye of the Devil
