Rating of
3.5/4
Night of the Demon
Old Winter - wrote on 11/22/12
A creaking B-movie which is greater than the sum of its scenes.
Dana Andrews was the American interest for that important market. His best work probably behind him at this stage of his career (this isn't a big budget movie).
Niall MacGinnis is too good for the movie but gives it his all.
Peggy Cummins has more of a role than just too look good.
The whole, should we should we not see the monster seems to dominate a lot of discussion among fans.
Personally I am glad we get too see it, especially the scenes where it looks like it is pedalling on an invisible unicycle.
More to the point, the film could have done without the obviously stuffed big cat that "attacks" Andrews.
The location shots are wonderfully atmospheric, it is a lost Britain we are looking at. The police station, the long house with the extended family.
The sceance scene is just a comic wonder to be cherished.
For a B-movie the effects are well done, actually for any movie in the late 50s.
This really is a movie any vintage horror buff has to see.
