• Source: Disciple of Death

      • Disciple of Death is a 1972 British horror film directed by Tom Parkinson and starring Mike Raven, Ronald Lacey and Nicholas Amer. It was written by Parkinson and Mike Raven.


      Plot


      In 18th century Cornwall, a minion of Satan poses as a priest to get closer to young, virginal women needed for human sacrifice.


      Cast


      Mike Raven as stranger
      Ronald Lacey as Parson
      Nicholas Amer as Melchisidech
      Stephen Bradley as Ralph
      Marguerite Hardiman as Julia
      Virginia Wetherell as Ruth
      George Belbin as Squire
      Betty Alberge as Dorothy
      Rusty Goffe as dwarf
      Louise Jameson as Betty
      Joe Dunlop as Mathew
      Daisika as gypsy


      Reception


      The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Disciple of Death, the second offering from the Crucible of Terror team, shares with its predecessor the same leading players (Mike Raven and Ronald Lacey) and the use of Cornish locations. The film veers uneasily between Grand Guignol (the close-up of a hand squeezing blood from a heart into a goblet; the dwarf feeding noisily on the parson's neck) and parody, the latter emphasised by Raven's gestures and intonation (straight out of Victorian Era melodrama) and by Lacey's sustained impersonation of Charles Laughton. Tom Parkinson, who both photographed and co-scripted the previous film, shows a good eye for colour, especially the varied reds in the scenes of ritual sacrifice. Occasionally, though, his over-fondness for telephoto shots in the location sequences lends a deadening flatness to the frame."


      References




      External links


      Disciple of Death at IMDb
      "Disciple of Death (16mm)" on YouTube
      Review by Chris Wood (archived from the original)
      Reviews at moviesandmania.com

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