Clearly inspired by the worldwide box office slashing success of 'The Bogeyman', lurid low-budget mastermind, Ulli Lommel creates another malevolently moody, ungodly grisly shocker, this time eerily invoking his own skewed, dark-tinted version of the Salem witch trials. Lommel nastily recreates all the banshee batty, unwholesomely loathsome, flesh-tormenting mayhem in the boggy, Lovecraftian backwater of the fictitious New England homestead of diabolically doom enshrouded Devonsville!
300 years ago in superstitious Devonsville, the ignoble town's forefathers salaciously succumbed to their collective misogyny, and in a maniacal haze of irreligious fervour, bloodily bound, deliriously defiled, grievously tortured, and cruelly expunged the blameless lives of three beautiful young women for the wholly unproven crimes of witchcraft. In the midst of this malign mortal conflagration the vengeful spirit of one victim cast a most terrible curse upon all the jeering villagers, damning them and their Descendants to a collective fate far worse than death!
With the synchronous arrival of three independent-minded women, Dr. Worley (Donald Pleasence) becomes increasingly convinced that an ancient prophesy he has long feared is about to be made horribly manifest, thereby bringing a monstrous malediction upon all those related to the historical murders of three no less blameless women of town's far from silent past.
The Devonsville Terror' is morbidly steeped in oppressive atmosphere and stultifying dread, and not long after pretty, metropolitan, self-possessed Jenny Scanlon (Suzanna Love) settles awkwardly into her increasingly uneasy new life as the replacement teacher, when the centuries old curse becomes a terrifying reality! The eldritch events befalling these three innocent women are ominously staged by, Lommel, who seems to have a genuine affinity for the macabre material, with some of the more shocking scenes reaching a sublime Gothic hysteria no less eerily enthralling than the Hammer/Amicus shockers of yore! Once again, the delightful, Suzanna Love proves herself a capable and sympathetic actress, and twitchy horror icon, Donald Pleasence's worm-infested Dr. Worley is an eccentric, doom-auguring delight! With 'The Devonsville Terror' now widely available on a rigorously remastered Blu-ray, a great many horror fans are destined to be bewitched by its sinisterly Satanic thrall!
300 years ago in superstitious Devonsville, the ignoble town's forefathers salaciously succumbed to their collective misogyny, and in a maniacal haze of irreligious fervour, bloodily bound, deliriously defiled, grievously tortured, and cruelly expunged the blameless lives of three beautiful young women for the wholly unproven crimes of witchcraft. In the midst of this malign mortal conflagration the vengeful spirit of one victim cast a most terrible curse upon all the jeering villagers, damning them and their Descendants to a collective fate far worse than death!
With the synchronous arrival of three independent-minded women, Dr. Worley (Donald Pleasence) becomes increasingly convinced that an ancient prophesy he has long feared is about to be made horribly manifest, thereby bringing a monstrous malediction upon all those related to the historical murders of three no less blameless women of town's far from silent past.
The Devonsville Terror' is morbidly steeped in oppressive atmosphere and stultifying dread, and not long after pretty, metropolitan, self-possessed Jenny Scanlon (Suzanna Love) settles awkwardly into her increasingly uneasy new life as the replacement teacher, when the centuries old curse becomes a terrifying reality! The eldritch events befalling these three innocent women are ominously staged by, Lommel, who seems to have a genuine affinity for the macabre material, with some of the more shocking scenes reaching a sublime Gothic hysteria no less eerily enthralling than the Hammer/Amicus shockers of yore! Once again, the delightful, Suzanna Love proves herself a capable and sympathetic actress, and twitchy horror icon, Donald Pleasence's worm-infested Dr. Worley is an eccentric, doom-auguring delight! With 'The Devonsville Terror' now widely available on a rigorously remastered Blu-ray, a great many horror fans are destined to be bewitched by its sinisterly Satanic thrall!