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Eye of the Devil (1966)

Directed by J. Lee Thompson

Horror | Mystery

Most recently watched by zombiefreak, sleestakk, noahphex

Overview

A French nobleman deserts his wife because of an ancient family secret.

Rated NR | Length 96 minutes

Actors

Deborah Kerr | David Niven | Sharon Tate | David Hemmings | Donald Pleasence | Edward Mulhare | Flora Robson | John Le Mesurier | Emlyn Williams | Michael Miller | Donald Bisset | Pauline Letts | Robert Duncan | Suky Appleby

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Date ViewedDeviceFormatSourceRating
07/07/2012TVDVDBorrowed5 stars
 

Viewing Notes

The second film in our Warner Archive Movie Night. You can tell we picked these movies by their cool covers without regard to anything else. Unfortunately, we got bamboozled!

Eye of the Devil, also known as Day of the Arrow, is a pretty bland black and white ritual sacrifice style movie, perhaps a bit like Wicker Man but without any of the real mystery driving it. It felt like an episode of The Twilight Zone drawn out way too long.

David Niven has so little to do that he’s mostly wandering around and alternately consoling/warning his wife. Why she was in any particular danger throughout the movie remains a bit of a mystery.

Eye of the Devil is notable for being Sharon Tate’s first major movie role, so there’s that.

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