Tigon's Talons. Out of Tigon Productions comes The Blood On Satan's Claw. Directed by Piers Haggard (who co-writes with Robert Wynne-Simmons) it stars Patrick Wymark, Linda Hayden, Barry Andrews, Michele Dotrice & Wendy Padbury. Story is set in rural 17th century England and sees a village fall under demonic possession after a living one eyed skull is unearthed by the local ploughman. Well it's quite a title…
Top Cast
Patrick Wymark
The Judge
Linda Hayden
Angel Blake
Barry Andrews
Ralph Gower
Michele Dotrice
Margaret
Wendy Padbury
Cathy Vespers
Anthony Ainley
Reverend Fallowfield
Charlotte Mitchell
Ellen Vespers
Tamara Ustinov
Rosalind Barton
Simon Williams
Peter Edmonton
James Hayter
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Howard Goorney
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Isobel Banham
Roberta Tovey
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Robin Davies
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Reviews
***Creepy, unsettling, unconventional, realistic and artistic, but also tedious*** In the early 1700s, devil worship rears its sinister head in a village in England. Barry Andrews (who looks like Roger Daltrey) plays the young man who initially acquires evidence of the deviltry while Patrick Wymark plays the investigator and Anthony Ainley the minister. The young females include Tamara Ustinov (Rosalind), Linda…
Few films make their intentions quite as efficiently as *The Blood on Satan's Claw*. Ralph ploughs an apparently ordinary field, turns over something that should have remained underneath it, and finds a decayed skull with a living eye staring back. Rural idyll, meet problem. That image does an enormous amount of work. The evil here is not arriving from somewhere else. It is unearthed. Something buried beneath the…
FAQ about The Blood on Satan's Claw
What is The Blood on Satan's Claw about?
After a landsman in 18th century England discovers a corpse covered in fur buried in a field, the town becomes infected by "the devil's skin," leading the local children to engage in demonic rituals and criminal behavior.
When was The Blood on Satan's Claw released?
The Blood on Satan's Claw was released in 1971.
What genres does The Blood on Satan's Claw belong to?
The Blood on Satan's Claw is categorised as Horror.
Who stars in The Blood on Satan's Claw?
The cast of The Blood on Satan's Claw includes Patrick Wymark, Linda Hayden, Barry Andrews, Michele Dotrice, Wendy Padbury.