I recall seeing this TV movie twice as a child and it scared me more than the Exorcist! I have'nt seen it on British TV for at least 15 years. The way it is set up and ends seems like it is a continuing series. I don't know if this was the original intention, or just to make it spookier.
Roy Thinnes, made one or two movies like this at the same time and was excellant in both. In this he is the 'goody' but in the other ( Satan's School For Girls ) he was the ultimate baddy. From his Invaders Days he always had the ambivalent look of always looking like the opposite of the character he played.
This film had that early seventies supernatural feel of many TV movies and series of the same ilk, but I thought this quite original. Thinnes investigates a disappearance or death of a woman's sculpter husband. Meanwhile people are being killed and drained of blood. Through numerous chills mainly because the monster/vampire in this looks like a proper scary version of a Scooby-Doo monster, it transpires that the sculpter is a devil-desciple who is making an effigy of Lucifer out of clay and human blood, in order to bring him to life. The scene at the end when Lucifer comes alive is numbing. Don't know why all the Hollywoood rip-off merchants dont remake this. Would be a smash
Roy Thinnes, made one or two movies like this at the same time and was excellant in both. In this he is the 'goody' but in the other ( Satan's School For Girls ) he was the ultimate baddy. From his Invaders Days he always had the ambivalent look of always looking like the opposite of the character he played.
This film had that early seventies supernatural feel of many TV movies and series of the same ilk, but I thought this quite original. Thinnes investigates a disappearance or death of a woman's sculpter husband. Meanwhile people are being killed and drained of blood. Through numerous chills mainly because the monster/vampire in this looks like a proper scary version of a Scooby-Doo monster, it transpires that the sculpter is a devil-desciple who is making an effigy of Lucifer out of clay and human blood, in order to bring him to life. The scene at the end when Lucifer comes alive is numbing. Don't know why all the Hollywoood rip-off merchants dont remake this. Would be a smash