Review – To the Devil ... a Daughter

To the audience ... some boredom. Honestly, the only time this movie isn't painfully dull is when it's repulsively offensive. For example, for the sake of peacefully digesting your dinner, don’t look up how old Nastassja Kinski was when she did the nude scene toward the end. An excommunicated priest (Christopher Lee) is trying to put the demonic spirit of Astaroth (depicted as a spread-eagled parody of the crucifixion) into the body of a young nun (Kinski). And only a novelist (Richard Widmark) can stop him. Which he does, rather abruptly and without further explanation at the end. Though I can see why Hammer Studios might have wanted to move away from their usual chain-rattling horror fare from the 1960s, I’m certain this wasn't the right direction to move in. If nothing else, it served as a point of departure between Hammer and Lee. What a shame. See if desperate