The long eyelashed Satan
| Movie | |
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| German title | The long eyelashed Satan |
| Original title | Nightmare |
| Country of production | United Kingdom |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1964 |
| length | 79 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Freddie Francis |
| script | Jimmy Sangster |
| production | Jimmy Sangster for Hammer Films |
| music | Don Banks |
| camera | John Wilcox |
| cut | James Needs |
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Satan with long eyelashes (Original title: Nightmare ) is a British in black and white twisted Suspense - horror film from the year 1964 , that of Hammer Films produced. Directed by Freddie Francis , Jimmy Sangster acted as producer and screenwriter . The leading roles were played by David Knight , Moira Redmond and Jennie Linden .
action
The film begins with Janet, a teenage girl, walking down the dark corridors of an insane asylum while being called by a creepy yet soothing voice. Finally she comes into the room from which the voice comes. Inside is Janet's insane mother. The door slams behind Janet and her mother says they are both crazy now. She repeats this over and over, driving Janet insane. It turns out that it was all just a dream. Janet wakes up screaming in her bed at the boarding school she goes to, which also wakes her classmates.
Since Janet has been suffering from these nightmares for a long time, her teacher, Mary Lewis, decides to give her psychiatric treatment. Janes refuses, however, and wants to be sent home to her guardian Henry Baxter. Mary agrees and decides to accompany Janet home. When Janet and Mary arrive in Janet's hometown, they are picked up by Janet's chauffeur , who is clearly concerned about the latter . As they drive past a mental institution, Janet and John act strangely. When Janet arrives at Henry's villa, she finds that Henry is not there. The maid, Mrs. Gibbs, tells her that Henry won't come for a week. A new housekeeper named Grace Maddox was also hired.
Later that evening, Mrs. Gibbs reads a letter from Henry to Janet saying that he was happy to see her again. However, she does not tell her that Henry still wrote that she should tell Grace, who is no ordinary housekeeper but also a psychologist, everything she wants to know about Janet. Among other things, she tells her why Janet has these nightmares. When Janet was a child, she came home on her 11th birthday. Mrs. Gibbs greeted them. Janet went upstairs and Mrs. Gibbs suddenly heard her screech loudly. Janet's mother had stabbed her father with a knife to cut Janet's birthday cake.
That night, Grace goes to see Janet. When she notices that Janet's room is empty, she looks for her and finally finds her completely terrified. She says she saw a black-haired woman with a scar on her face in her room who gave her a hand sign to follow her. She followed the woman, but she was gone. Grace reassures Janet that it was just a dream, but Janet felt the dream was incredibly real and, like her mother, fears that she will go insane.
Henry is informed of Janet's nightmare. He arrives immediately and speaks to a psychologist who recommends that Janet seek psychiatric treatment. But Henry says that there is no way Janet can become like her mother. However, the psychologist believes that it is precisely because of the fear of becoming like her mother that Janet is being driven insane. Henry still insists on his opinion.
But Janet has other nightmares. One night she sees the woman standing in front of her bed again. She asks the woman who she is, but she just leaves the room in silence. Janet follows her. Finally she comes to a room. There she sees the woman lying stabbed to death on the bed. The next night she dreams that this time the woman is stabbed to death in her bed. Janet immediately calls Grace to help, who reassures her that tomorrow is her birthday. Janet doesn't want to sleep in her bed, so Grace allows her to use her bed. In the morning she wakes up, but nobody seems to be in the house, apart from the woman who appears to Janet again. She leads Janet into the living room. Janet asks the woman again who she is and orders her to leave her alone, but the woman just stops in front of her. Janet runs back to her room. When she is finally really awake, Mrs. Gibbs and Grace take her downstairs, where she is greeted by Henry. Suddenly Janet notices with horror that a black-haired woman is standing in the room. Henry says she is his wife. The black-haired woman turns around. It's the woman with the scar from Janet's dream. Janet goes crazy, takes the knife that was meant to cut her birthday cake, and stabs the woman with it. Everyone is horrified. Henry's wife's body is eventually carried outside and Janet is admitted to the closed psychiatric ward. She is given her doll, which is always lying on her bed, with her. When Janet is carried outside, she sees the black-haired woman watching her from the window.
At that moment there is a surprising twist. You can see the black-haired woman sitting in front of the fireplace. It turns out that the whole time it was Grace in disguise as Henry's wife. She takes off her face mask and wig and throws them into the fire. Henry is in league with Grace. Both have used Janet's fear of becoming like her mother to drive her insane, so that she stabs Henry's wife to death, as Grace has subliminally ordered her in her "dreams". Henry and Grace are secretly in love. They eventually get married and spend their honeymoon in a hotel. Henry goes down to the bar one day without Grace. Grace follows him. The bartender talks to Henry as if he were a regular and says that he had been to the hotel with another woman a few days earlier. Grace grows suspicious, but Henry claims there was a mix-up.
Grace implies Henry that he cheated on her with another, which Henry denies. One day she sees Janet walking through the house and looks for her. She finds Janet's doll on her bed. Grace is starting to get paranoid. She calls the mental hospital to ask about Janet. She is told that Janet has escaped from the asylum and is most likely very dangerous. Grace thinks Henry is hiding Janet in the house and wants to use her to kill her too. She keeps seeing Janet walking around the house until one day she threatens Henry with a knife and says that she has figured out his plan. Henry denies that; when he tries to get up, she cuts his arm. He finally tries to pick up the phone, whereupon Grace stabs him and tries to put the blame on Janet. She runs downstairs to call the police, but suddenly Mrs. Gibbs shows up. Grace tells her that Henry was murdered, but Mrs. Gibbs knows that Janet was the murderer. It turns out that Mrs. Gibbs, John, and Mary knew what Henry and Grace did to Janet. So you drove Grace insane to get revenge. The woman who ran through the house was Mrs. Gibbs in disguise; the bartender was paid by Mary to pretend he knew Henry and when Grace called the mental hospital, she was actually talking to John. In reality, Janet is still in psychiatry and has already made great strides. Grace finally goes mad and John calls the police.
background
useful information
Freddie Francis' Satan with the long eyelashes was after Hammer's suspense thrillers The Snorkel (1958), Shadow of a Cat (1960), Seth Holt's A Dead Plays the Piano (1960), Michael Carreras ' The Boiled Out and Freddie Francis' first hammer film House des Grauens (1962) the fourth psychological thriller typical for Hammer in the 1960s, shot in black and white, for which Jimmy Sangster wrote the script. The fifth film followed later, Hysteria (1965). Until the early 1970s, Hammer-Films shot other suspense thrillers, but in color, such as B. The gloomy house (1965), Crescendo - The Handwriting of Satan (1970) and The Fear (1972).
The woman who appears in Janet's dreams was played by Clytie Jessop , who Francis met while filming Castle of Secrets (1961). She later played in his film The Torture Garden of Dr. Diabolo (1967) the role of Moire Atropos . Thanks to the successful camera work by John Wilcox , whom Freddie Francis had known since the 1940s from films such as Affair Macomber (1947) and The Damned of the Islands , when he was still “ Clapper Boy ” or “Camera Operator”, Satan was included the long eyelashes to the darkest of Hammer's b / w psychological thrillers.
An estate on Oakley Curt that has appeared in previous films was used for the exterior of the boarding school that Janet attended . One of the most nightmarish scenes in the film is when Janet drives past a lunatic asylum and gets nervous that her greatest fear is being taken there herself. This establishment was a model built by Ian Scoones and photographed along with a background painted by Ray Caple .
The role of Janet should originally be cast with the young Julie Christie . When she was offered the leading role in John Schlesinger's Beloved Spinner at short notice , she canceled. After some hesitation, Hammer released Christie from her contract. Shortly before production began, Sangster and Francis discovered Jennie Linden, then 23, during a theatrical performance in Worthing, who made her film debut with her role as Janet in The Long-Lashed Satan . In the following years she starred in several well-known films, such as Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965) with Peter Cushing , Ken Russells Liebende Frauen (1968) and the horror comedy Vampira (1974) and also had guest appearances in well-known television series such as Mit Schirm, Charme und Melone , Simon Templar and Die 2 . In 1971 she was offered the role of Amy in Sam Peckinpah's Who Sows Violence , which she declined and was replaced by Susan George.
George A. Cooper , who plays the chauffeur John, is also relatively well known from films such as Hammer's film noir Hetzjagd (1960), Freddie Francis' A Dead Seeks His Murderer (1962), and countless British television series. In 1968 he played a supporting role as an innkeeper in Dracula's Return, also produced by Hammer-Films . Brenda Bruce , the actress of Janet's teacher Mary Lewis, played one of the murder victims in Michael Powell's scandalous film Eyes of Fear (1959), which is considered the forefather of the slasher film .
The two actors David Knight and Moira Redmond , the actors of the couple Henry and Grace, apart from frequent television appearances by Redmond, mainly occupied themselves with the theater. Redmond has rarely been seen in movies. One of them is Blake Edward's second Inspector Clouseau film, A Shot in the Dark (1964) starring Peter Sellers .
Production notes
Bernard Robinson and Don Mingaye acted as art directors, as in the previous films. Don Banks was responsible for the music, who composed the music for a hammer production for the second time after Captain Clegg's gang (1962).
The first take on Satan with the Long Eyelashes fell on December 17, 1962. The filming took a total of six weeks. Originally the film was supposed to be called Here's a Knife Dear - Now use is . Jimmy Sangster was against this title. In an interview with Cinematograph Weekly on January 3, 1963, he said: "The problem with this title is that it reveals too much - namely everything." The harsh winter of 1962/63, which caused the rare one, was advantageous for the film There was an opportunity to shoot scenes with real snow, which underlines the “coldness” of the film.
Theatrical release
On April 19, 1964, over a year after the filming was finished, The Satan with the Long Eyelashes premiered in England. He was shown in British cinemas as a double feature with Freddie Francis Frankenstein's monster (1964). In the USA the film was released by Universal International on June 17, 1964, and in Germany it was released by Universal on February 28, 1964.
criticism
"[...] The Oscar-winning cameraman Freddie Francis (" Sons and Lovers "), who had staged" Paranoiac "for Hammer last year, manages to build tension from the very first minute and to keep them alive with surprising twists. [...] "
“Ghost apparitions and murders in the parents' house of a mentally distressed young girl. Effectively staged horror film, the story of which is not particularly original. "
Publications
Satan with the long eyelashes was not published on VHS in Germany . On July 10th, 2009 it was published by Koch Media in an extensively restored version as Hammer Collection # 10 on DVD .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Booklet of the German DVD by Koch Media (EAN: 4020628970017)
- ↑ Criticism on kino.de
- ↑ Satan with the long eyelashes. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ^ Entry on the German DVD by Koch Media in the online film database
Web links
- Satan with long eyelashes in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Long-eyed Satan in the online film database