House of the Black Death (1971) User Reviews

Lon Chaney and John Carradine hit rock bottom

[kevinolzak · 3/10 · 29 November 2014]

Filmed in Sept 1965, "Night of the Beast" was the debut feature for novice producer William White, better known to horror fans as actor Bill Hampton, from 1959's "The Hideous Sun Demon" and 1965's "The Human Duplicators," while director Harold Daniels scored a success with the 1958 "Terror in the Haunted House" aka "My World Dies Screaming." The exceedingly small budget must have run out as completion neared, and the filmmakers lost control of the footage, soon picked up by schlockmeister Jerry Warren, whose additional 11 minutes of added scenes extended the running time to 74 minutes, but otherwise served little purpose due to his inept editing. A black and white movie that could only get playdates on the bottom half of double bills under the title "Blood of the Man Devil" (or even all night drive-in creature features), what is now better known as "House of the Black Death" languishes in obscurity to this day, little seen even on television despite the presence of genre heavyweights Lon Chaney and John Carradine (alas, not once sharing any scenes together). Sibling warlocks in service to their master Satan, Carradine's Andre Desard represents the wealthy upper class, while Chaney's Belial Desard heads up the plebeian tier, leading the tiny town of Widderburn to revolt against Andre and usurp his all powerful status with their lord and master (the book from which the excessively wordy script was adapted was titled "The Widderburn Horror"). Displaying the goat's horns that make him an even greater emissary of the Devil, the top billed Chaney gets more footage than his co-star, threatening the souls of Andre's son Paul (Tom Drake), cursed by lycanthropy, and daughter Valerie (Dolores Faith), whom Belial seems to covet for himself. Virtually everyone is defeated by the ill conceived screenplay, but even under these impoverished circumstances both Chaney and (especially) Carradine are remarkably professional. Jerry Warren never shied away from taking credit for the film's belated release, but as editor he blunders badly on several occasions: we see doctors Mallory (Andrea King) and Campion (Jerome Thor) accompanied by villager Stokes (Sherwood Keith) BEFORE Belial assigns him as their guide, while Carradine's Andre claims he must rest, but is being chastised by Valerie in the very next scene for revealing the family secrets to Campion. The most egregious error was in showing us Chaney's goat horns well before his supposed 'big reveal' in front of a shocked doctor Mallory! Gorgeous blonde bombshell Sabrina, known as 'Britain's Jayne Mansfield,' provides plentiful eye candy dancing for Chaney's delighted amusement, but otherwise serves no purpose and has no dialogue. Warren's new scenes feature a brunette dancer of lesser merit, and regular stock company performers Katherine Victor and George Andre attempting to plug a few gaps in continuity, their repeated chants only adding to the numbing sense of boredom. Still, it just might qualify as the best film that Jerry Warren was ever involved in! (Carradine and Victor would rejoin him for his 1981 comeback feature "Frankenstein Island").

The devil made them do it

[Zontar-2 · 2/10 · 9 September 2006]

Relatives returning to their ancestral home tangle with warlocks and a family curse.

If this was based on an actual novel, as the credits claim, it has to be filmdom's sorriest screen adaptation. (Then again, the book angle could have been fabricated by crudmeister Jerry Warren, whose cinematic transgressions include bogus credits.) Like MONSTER A GO GO ('65), this plays like an unfinished film. You pity old hands Tom Drake and Andrea King, clueless that they'll "star" in what amounts to a series of barely connected scenes.

On the other hand, Lon Chaney and John Carradine probably knew exactly what type of muck they were standing in. Carradine hams his role of family patriarch so badly, Hormel could sue for product defamation. Chaney, possibly hired because the plot includes a werewolf, plays a horned satanist who limps with an (unseen) cloven hoof...or did he just drop a hooch bottle on his foot? Familiar TV face Jerome Thor is screendom's most pitiful lycanthrope, though he gives it what I guess is his best shot.

Master film mangler Jerry Warren attempted to finish the film by randomly inserting new scenes that add nothing but running time. Sparse music cues contribute to the lethargy.

Dull and badly made horror flick

[JohnSeal · 4/10 · 8 August 2004]

If not for the coupling of horror icons John Carradine and Lon Chaney Jr.--who don't share a single scene together--House of the Black Death would be completely worthless. As it is, it's ALMOST completely worthless, being badly shot, appallingly lit, and poorly written. In a plot reminiscent of Roger Corman's version of The Raven, our two stars play brothers and dueling masters of the dark arts, with Chaney sporting a fetching pair of horns that mark him as the bad guy. (He's also called Belial, which doesn't help matters.) The endless exotic dancing sequences echo A.C. Stephens inept Orgy of the Dead, a film that, thanks to its colour photography, is a masterpiece in comparison to House of the Black Death.

Confusing, isn't it?

[reptilicus · 5/10 · 9 January 2005]

Jerry Warren, Harold Daniels and (if we can believe the credits) Reginald LeBorg all had something to do with putting this movie together. Jerry is famous for importing Mexican movies, adding new scenes and releasing them as "new". CREATURE OF THE WALKING DEAD and CURSE OF THE STONE HAND come quickly to mind. He also directed MAN BEAST and introduced to world to "Rock Madison" an actor who never really existed! Harold Daniels directed the original version of BAYOU (1956) which was spiced up with "Adults Only" footage a few years later and re-released as POOR WHITE TRASH. Reginald LeBorg had worked with stars Lon Chaney and John Carradine previously in things like DEAD MAN'S EYES, THE MUMMY'S GHOST and THE BLACK SLEEP. The combination of these three culminates with a movie that is . . . well . . .unusual to say the least.

The small town of Wydeburn (it seems to only have 20 residents) is controlled by the feuding DeSade family. The good warlock Andre (John Carradine) controls half the citizens and bad warlock Belial (Lon Chaney) rules the others. Andre tells us that Belial has a cloven hoof but we never see it. Chaney's limp is no doubt due to an attack of gout which he was plagued with for the last years of his life. He does sport a nice pair of horns though. Another member of the family is supposed to be a werewolf and to be fair we do get a brief insert shot of the man wearing what is meant (I guess) to be a werewolf mask! Another DeSade brother (Tom Drake, who costarred with Chaney in THE CYCLOPS back in 1957) comes home with a doctor colleague (Andrea King, best remembered from THE BEAST WITH FIVE FINGERS) to save his sister (Delores Faith) from what he believes is the family madness. Without spoiling too much of the plot (actually the directors did that themselves!) he soon learns that not all of Life's mysteries can be explained away in medical books!

Continuity is barely there and scenes jump around so much you have to wonder who did the editing. At one moment Carradine declares he is tired and must rest yet in the very next scene he is in the living room talking about the family history! Watch how Delores Faith is wearing high heels when she leaves Carradine's house but is barefoot when she arrives at Chaney's place. Everyone I this picture had experience with the genre and I can only assume they did the best they could with a budget that from probably non existent from Day One and three directors all going in different directions. Katherine Victor from THE CAPE CANAVERAL MONSTERS shows up long enough to initiate a new member into Belial's coven. One name "Adults Only" star Sabrina (qv THE ICE HOUSE)shows up as a harem dancer.

If you think Roger Corman's THE TERROR (1963) is all over the map plotwise sit down and try to watch this movie! It's too incoherent to even to be funny. Oh well, call me a completist but I'll watch anything with Lon and John in it. Nice try, guys.

Career U-Turns for Chaney, Carradine!

[sanzar · 1/10 · 8 May 1999]

"House of the Black Death", an obscure B & W horror pic from the mid-60's, marked Lon Chaney's entrance into the world of Grade Z schlock, a domain already inhabited by his co-star, John Carradine. Unfortunately, both stars would continue a downward career spiral from this point on, making numerous low-grade bombs along the way.

The story here involves dueling warlocks, battling for control of the Desard family in the village of Wydeburne, wherever that is. Chaney's Belial is on the outside, looking in, lusting for his brother Andre's (Carradine)fortune. Belial employs his coven of witches to bedevil the opposing members of the Desard family in his quest for power. Spells are cast, demons and Werewolves are invoked (although mostly off-screen) but the end result is viewer boredom, thanks to an incoherently talky script and stilted performances.

As originally filmed, this picture was obviously an unreleasable mess. Hence, the producers invited noted hack Jerry Warren ("Face of the Screaming Werewolf", "Teenage Zombies", "Incredible Petrified World", plus many more truly awful movies) to try to piece things together. Warren dragged in his longtime "star" Katherine Victor, for a few insert shots and dropped in some dancing girl segments, all to little avail. The movie remained unreleasable and received few, if any, playdates under an assortment of titles.

Don't look for it on TV: your only chance to view this disaster is probably by ordering a copy from a PD video dealer. Take my advice, save your money!

Even Ed Wood might have thought this film was terrible!

[planktonrules · 1/10 · 14 March 2013]

This film starts off wonderfully--with Satan himself introducing the characters. While this was inspired and clever, nothing else in the film was. In fact, it's pretty much a stupid mess about two warlocks who fight over the family fortune in some godforsaken (literally) town. While John Carradine and Lon Chaney Jr. star in the film, both were at the points in their careers where they would have appeared in ANYTHING--even ads for Playtex girdles if they'd asked! In addition to being an extremely dull and talky film, 'sexy' dancing girls are rather randomly inserted throughout the film to try to keep you awake. However, their alluring antics are about as alluring as a bowel obstruction.

"House of Black Death" (also known as "Blood of the Man Devil") is an absolutely horrible film that has not surprisingly slipped into the public domain. While IMDb often links such films to archive.org, this time they didn't--though if you go to this site you can download it for free. But, in many cases, why should you?! My advice is to only watch it if you love schlocky films--such as those of Larry Buchanan, Ed Wood or William Grefe. In this sense, it is watchable because it's THAT bad! Don't say I didn't warn you.

I've actually read the book!

[barcham_99 · 8 September 2009]

Unfortunately I can't comment on the movie as I have never seen it, but I just thought I'd let people know that yes, it is based on a book! The book is the Widderburn Horror and from what I've been reading here, it's considerably better than this movie.

I had always felt that it would make a good movie so I did a search on it and ended up here only to be sadly disappointed. If someone would do it properly, I still think it would make a fine movie. The book has it all, witchcraft, devil worship, werewolves - actual transformation into a wolf, not some horror film monster, and a family of witches going back centuries that could be the inspiration for Anne Rice's witches in the Witching Hour. Not to mention a story of unrequited love.

Considering how old the novel is, there is no indication of the time period and it could still work very well if it were set in the present day. If anyone is interested, you can find the book on amazon, used of course. It's the Widderburn Horror by R.Warner-Crozetti aka Lora Crozetti. As far as I can tell, it's the only book she ever wrote and it seems that it was meant to be the first of a series but never went any further.

Considering all the remakes being produced today that are pointless and inferior to the original, this is one book that cries out for someone to do it properly.

Disorienting, Disturbing

[Scott_Mercer · 5/10 · 12 November 2013]

If the goal here was to make a good movie, they failed miserably.

If the goal was to confuse, disturb and disorient the viewer, then JACKPOT, baby! This movie is not scary because it evokes a disturbing real atmosphere of fear the way something like Night of The Living Dead does. The effect here in HOTBD is much more surreal.

No, the world of House of The Black Death, aka Blood of the Man Devil is not a world that you or I might recognize. But it is a world that sucks you in. A world of grainy, back-and-white horror; a world of creeping, Gothic torment, a world of a furtively glimpsed fever dream while under the influence of absinthe or laudanum, as you are restrained with rubber hoses in a rusty dentist's chair from the 19th century and assaulted with various antique dental implements.

The stark textures of the muddy, washed out print I viewed only added to the sense of ennui and nausea endured while watching this exercise in creepiness, a tableau which added death-desiring boredom to the mix during the endless talky scenes of people discussing the battle for the soul of the Dessard family between Carradine and Chaney. The extra added frisson provided by the poor condition of the print I viewed was clearly not intended by the filmmakers, but you know what they say, when life hands you lemons...or, more concisely, whatever works.

Now that I have accidentally referred to Woody Allen and Larry David in this review, a highly inappropriate turn of events, I will end with just one command: I importune you to watch this film only late at night, with the lights off, preferably when you are so tired that you will not be able to stop dozing off (if you weren't already there, the dialog will see to that). The wretched visuals of this nightmare of a psychotic will mix with your own dreams as you drift off into an impenetrable trap amongst the ether, of both your own making and that of the (many) directors of this "film."

Pleasant screams.

UPDATE: As of 1/2014, now available on DVD from VCI Entertainment, who have released 2 volumes each of three Jerry Warren "classics." For those with strong constitutions only...

A (very) minor but amusing genre item.

[Hey_Sweden · 5/10 · 17 November 2019]

John Carradine and Lon Chaney Jr. headline this micro-budget horror flick about a family called the Desards that are always at odds with each other. Lon plays Belial, decked out with forehead horns and supposedly bearing a cloven foot. He's the antagonist seeking to wrest power away from his more benevolent brother, black magician Andre (Carradine). Caught in the ensuing battle are Paul (Tom Drake, who acted with Lon in "The Cyclops"), their brother, and Valerie (sultry young Dolores Faith, "The Phantom Planet"), their sister. A pair of psychiatrists, Eric Campion (Jerome Thor, "10 to Midnight") and Katherine Mallory (Andrea King, "The Beast with Five Fingers") are brought in to lend some assistance.

The story goes that this schlock epic was begun by one group of hack filmmakers, but not finished, and *another* group of hacks stepped in to try to salvage the production. Harold Daniels ("Bayou"), Jerry Warren ("Teenage Zombies"), and Reginald LeBorg ("The Black Sleep") were all involved, to one degree or another. It's fortunate that the story (credited to Richard Mahoney, who based it on a novel by Lora Crozetti) is at all coherent or entertaining, although the limited funding available shows at every turn. What counts as either the high point or the low point, depending on your sensibilities, is the hilariously inadequate werewolf makeup seen on one character near the end. Overall, the film is on the dull, uneventful side, but this viewer couldn't really bring himself to hate it. It's watchable, if hardly a "good" film. Other people, however, might cringe seeing Lon and Carradine in this, and feel that they couldn't possibly have sunk any lower. Both men had a tendency to say "yes" to a lot of scripts when it might have been best to say "no".

The running time is padded out with a couple of scenes of attractive young ladies belly-dancing, and to be honest, one of the brightest unintentional laughs comes from watching this film on DVD with the English SDH subtitles on. The word "(dancing)" actually appears on screen whenever these scenes take place!

Pay attention to see one of Warrens' regulars, Katherine Victor, as one of the coven members.

Five out of 10.

Splendid ideas, not used in the best of ways

[I_Ailurophile · 5/10 · 16 October 2023]

On the one hand, three minutes of voiceover introducing characters isn't the best start for a horror film, and one may reasonably fear that the thrust of the whole will be little more than the gentle thematic horror we often saw in the 1940s (i.e., the very idea of A Thing is supposed to be titillating). On the other hand, our first scene following the opening credits portend a tale of corruption, manipulation, and induction more akin to those genre flicks we enjoy most as devil worshippers scheme to draw in more followers and gain power. On the one hand, small touches like having two women fighting (recalling 'Manos: The hands of fate'), or setting a scene in a burial ground in hopes of Instant Atmosphere, are a gauche touch. On the other hand, rich dramatic music, and a ritual dance intended to reflect the seductive allure of Satan, are genuinely nice touches. Then again, excessive use of the latter quickly becomes just as gauche - and we get five such scenes. See the pattern yet?

For better and for worse, 'House of the black death' goes back and forth like this throughout its length. Some of the scene writing is promising, while other instances are limp. Some instances of Harold Daniels' direction are strong and inviting; others are flaccid and unconvincing - and the acting is impacted in turn. There are a lot of great ideas in the narrative; then again, it sometimes feels like the tale boils down to a struggle between family for money and prestige at least as much if not more than a saga of Satanism. There are also substantial notes in the dialogue of snobbish, prejudiced pooh-poohing of non-Christian religion that simply don't sit well with broad-minded viewers. A lot of these lines are given to Jerome Thor as the character Eric, and regrettably, Thor also bears a rough, deep, grating, wooden timbre and delivery that (a) reminds of John Wayne (NOT a favorable comparison), and (b) means that all those scenes that make him talk drag down the pacing, and our favor.

I think there is much to like here, and though they struggle sometimes with the material and the direction, I believe that includes the committed acting of the cast. Would that the cast had more to do, because too often it feels like 'House of the black death' relies a tad too much on dialogue without a lot of movement, let alone action, or scenes that would invite the sinister vibes we crave. On that note, that the story trends more toward Brother Versus Brother than it does toward devil worship and ascending power, and that those scenes portraying the Satanists are mostly rendered so very flatly and also trend toward dialogue, dampens what potential the plot could have had at its best. All the ideas are here, but they present in proportions and forms that often don't come off very well, and the storytelling subsequently comes off as fairly scattered and weak. Even the climax sadly suffers from the noted faults, and still others, and it falls short of hitting the peak that it should.

In all earnestness I think this is significantly better than too many other horror flicks, not least as it broaches the subject matter in a fashion that many of its contemporaries or forebears refused to (particularly with regards to how it ultimately ends). We do actually get some meaningful horror flavors, and while I wish we got more, mostly I just wish they were used in smarter and more impactful manners. At its worst this is only on par with a lot of other titles from the mid-twentieth century. Suffice to say, however, that it remains less than essential, and when all is said and done I quite think it's only those viewers who are receptive to all the wide variety that the genre has to offer who will be especially able to appreciate it. I think I can honestly say that I like 'House of the black death' in some measure, but I'm not inclined to argue with those who don't. Set this aside as something lighter to watch on a lazy, quiet day, and maybe that's the best way to have a good time with it.

An example for veteran Hollywood stars: Don't let this happen to you.

[mark.waltz · 4/10 · 23 June 2015]

Some second string actors of the 1930's and 40's get to chew the scenery in this supernatural thriller about Satanists gathering together for an annual celebration of the dark moon and the rivalry of two witch brothers (John Carradine and Lon Chaney Jr.) of who will take over the coven. Andrea King ("The Beast With Five Fingers") plays a doctor (it is never mentioned if she is Christian, but she obviously isn't a Satanist) who comes to take care of Chaney's son (Tom Drake, "Meet Me in St. Louis") who is suffering from the same disorder Chaney Jr. Suffered from in "The Wolf Man". The ironically named Dolores Faith is the ingénue here who has Satanic leanings but is fighting with herself to escape the dark side of her existence.

A spooky set with practically everybody wearing monk robes and some scary moments make for an interesting, if often disturbing supernatural drama. Of course, every time the horrible Chaney speaks, it just becomes laughable. Everybody else seems to be speaking with some sincerity or wisdom, but Chaney is totally one-note. Nobody delivered bad dialog more badly than Chaney. Carradine at least gets to show some vulnerability in his performance, and even if he is on the side of the prince of darkness, you do find yourself rooting for him in his quest to squelch Chaney. But one thing is for sure. This film will never be a threat to the memory of the big budgeted witches coven picture, "Rosemary's Baby".

There is something about it I like.

[dbborroughs · 7/10 · 15 November 2009]

Sue me I liked this. perhaps seeing it late at night with the lights out and being half a sleep the film came across as a twisted dream. Perhaps I had to eventually like a film that Jerry Warren was involved in. What ever the reason I liked the film. (Actually I think its the fact that Sinister Cinema's print is dark and shadowy and very moody) The plot has a white magician getting involved with two warring brothers who are black magicians. Lon Chaney is one John Carradine is the the other.

Its a strange film that has a rhyming opening intoned by Satan, a plot that wanders all over the place and plot holes that you could drive a rampaging demon through. Its not by any real normal sense a good film, but it has mood and a sense of place and a reality that is sort of bent, I liked it.

I have no idea if anyone else will but its a dark tale that clicked with me.

Irksome

[Leofwine_draca · 3/10 · 28 August 2021]

Here's one I never heard of before watching: HOUSE OF THE BLACK DEATH, a 1965 slice of black and white B-movie horror starring two genre titans, John Carradine and Lon Chaney Jr. Both were on a downward projectory at this point in their careers and the film is far from entertaining, which is perhaps why it's so obscure these days. Luckily, it's just been added to Amazon Prime so will pick up a few new watchers. It's a muddled and overly talky production marked by long stretches of exposition and small talk where not much else happens.

The background is a rich family and its legacy and various members battling for supremacy. Chaney is cast as the villain of the piece, the leader of a black magic cult complete with devil horns (!), while Carradine is less bad and trying to maintain some semblance of normality. There's even a couple of werewolves thrown in but not much is made of their presence. This attempts the same kind of gothic atmosphere in the black magic scenes as the minor classic CITY OF THE DEAD but comes nowhere near close, so they throw in some dancing girls too and they don't work either.

Jerry Warren crashes and burns again!

[telepinus1525 · 2 December 2007]

This is one movie that probably would have been improved if Ed Wood had directed it instead! The whole thing plays out like a fever dream after you've eating a bad chicken salad. It's impossible to say if Jerry Warren "improved" on it or not; check out the ax job he did on "La Marca del Muerto", repackaging it as "Creature of the Walking Dead". The story of two brothers with Satanic powers dueling it out over the family fortune(and bragging rights over a kitschy-looking standing stone called the "Devil's Saddle") is barely coherent, the direction is barely coherent, the acting is barely coherent, and I was barely coherent after watching it. It was so bad it wasn't even funny--Warren seems to have that magic touch, doesn't he? The only good thing I can think about this turkey is that Bruno VeSota(a reliable Warren alumnus) didn't have to appear in it. Hmmm. Maybe if Warren had taken a cue from "Attack of the Giant Leeches"...but that's just me. BTW: I caught this on the old late-night schlock show, "Fright Night" hosted by "Sinister Seymour". When Seymour did a bumper between commercials, saying "...and we'll be right back with 'House of the Black Death'! Whaddya think of that, fringies?", they cut to John Carradine sitting up in bed and screaming in abject terror! I know how you felt, John, believe me, I do...

Desard Power.

[morrison-dylan-fan · 5/10 · 11 February 2016]

With a poll being held on IMDb's Classic Film board for the best titles from 1965,I started looking round for films to view from that year,and I spotted on Ebay a fun sounding Horror starring Lon Chaney Jr. and John Carradine,which led to me getting ready to enter the house of death.

The plot:

Fighting over the family fortune,warlocks Andre & Belial Desard battle over who controls the fortune.Falling in love for Valerie Desard, Eric Campion and his friend Dr. Kate Mallory decide to go and try to help end the feud between Andre and Belial.Arriving at the Desard's,Campion and Mallory soon discover that they have entered the house of black death.

View on the film:

Getting passed along between 3 directors, Harold Daniels, Jerry Warren & Reginald Le Borg contributions are each cut in with a hacksaw,as the jarring pause of dialogue and abrupt change in scenes are spread across the movie.Whilst this pulled apart approach does lead to Richard Mahoney's adaptation of Lora Crozetti's novel to feel rather hazy,it also gives the title a peculiar dream-logic atmosphere,thanks to satanic chants being joined by monks and beautiful dancing girls,

It's Not All That Bad

[Rainey-Dawn · 7/10 · 29 October 2014]

This movie really is not all that bad; it's actually a fairly decent older horror mystery film. The story does seem to be lacking quite a bit - it's not that well written. It does have the potential to be a good story with a bit more work on the script. The acting is so-so. It's as if the actors did not have their heart into making this movie - only to acquire a quick paycheck.

What the film has got going for it besides being the potential of being a good horror film: a satanic witchcraft theme, a mysterious small town called Wydeburn and werewolf (a very quick glimpse at the werewolf which looked more like an ape-man to me).

I have to say, there is something I like about this film - it's a horror film nugget to me.

Comparable film: If you want a good older film concerning satanic witches and a mysterious small town then try The City of the Dead 1960 (aka Horror Hotel) starring Christopher Lee.

7/10

Waste of Talent

[Michael_Elliott · 13 March 2008]

House of the Black Death (1965)

* (out of 4)

Two warlocks, one good (John Carradine) and one evil (Lon Chaney, Jr.) battle over human souls. I really don't have the faintest idea what this film is about because there are three story lines going on and none of them make any sense on their own so mixing them together is even more confusing. One of the stories deals with the warlock's other brother who's a werewolf but we never actually see the wolf. Again, here's a film that you hang onto because you're expecting something to happen but nothing ever does happen so in the end you've just wasted your time. To make matters even worse Chaney and Carradine don't share any scenes together.

"I Give This Day, In Every Way, Myself To Satan's Duty!"...

[azathothpwiggins · 28 June 2021]

HOUSE OF THE BLACK DEATH stars John Carradine as Andre Desard, and Lon Chaney Jr. As his brother, Belial. At first glance this sounds fantastic. Two horror legends together in one movie!

Not so fast buckaroo!

It's fairly late in both of their careers at this point, so, the two spend most of the time somnambulating, and trying not to bump into things.

Much satanic ballyhoo and mumbo jumbo is blathered, while they wear cool, hooded robes. As an added bonus, apparently, bikini-clad dancers are big among the devil worshipping set.

Meanwhile, there's a werewolf running around killing sheep, dogs, and anything else it can get its claws on. There's also Dr. Mallory (Andrea King), who's in this movie for no discernable reason. Oh, and we can't forget Sabrina, Satan's belly dancer. As it turns out, she's the only aspect about this wretched mess worth watching! Alas, her part is far too brief.

ASTONISHING FACTS: #1- Three (3!) directors worked on this toilet boat! One of whom was the notorious, sub-sludge schlock Meister, Jerry Warren! #2- Both Carradine and Chaney Jr survived the making of this movie, going on to be in several more productions, though their glory days were certainly left behind!

If unending, gaseous "dialogue" and stunned-by-a-blunt-instrument "acting" are your cup of Hemlock, then, prepare to drown!...