I love when movies have more than one title. You may know of this movie by its Belgian title, La Plus Longue Nuit du Diable (The Devil's Longest Night). In Italy, it's called La Terrificante Notte del Demonio (The Terrifying Night of the Demon). And it's also played as The Devil Walks at Midnight.
When a busload of tourists on holiday -- seven of them, all representing the seven deadly sins -- get lost, they end up at a gloomy castle. Could that be the same castle where we watched Nazis kill a baby at the end of World War II in the opening? Of course it is. That was the castle's master, Baron von Runberg, who sacrificed his baby daughter because of an ancient family curse that makes the first-born daughter into an insatiable succubus.
After a dinner in which the Baron explains all of this to his guests, Lisa Muller (Erika Blanc, who shows up in all manner of Eurohorror like Mario Bava's Kill, Baby, Kill and The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave) shows up to seduce each guest by using their personal sin against them.
From choking a man to death on food and wine to drowning a woman in powdered gold, guillotining another man, trapping a lustful woman in an iron maiden, throwing an old man out a window and killing yet another woman with a snake, Lisa is pretty much giving Dr. Phibes a run for his money.
Only Alvin, who represents pride, survives Lisa's rampage. Satan appears to him and makes him a deal: the six dead people can return to life if Alvin gives up his soul. But can things ever be so simple when you deal with the Devil? And hey -- is it just coincidence that the villains of this movie are Lisa and the Devil?
The Devil's Nightmare is the only full-length movie that Jean Brismee directed. That's a shame because I kind of love this movie's mix of Gothic atmosphere and Eurosleaze sex and violence. And I absolutely adore the fake-out ending.
When a busload of tourists on holiday -- seven of them, all representing the seven deadly sins -- get lost, they end up at a gloomy castle. Could that be the same castle where we watched Nazis kill a baby at the end of World War II in the opening? Of course it is. That was the castle's master, Baron von Runberg, who sacrificed his baby daughter because of an ancient family curse that makes the first-born daughter into an insatiable succubus.
After a dinner in which the Baron explains all of this to his guests, Lisa Muller (Erika Blanc, who shows up in all manner of Eurohorror like Mario Bava's Kill, Baby, Kill and The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave) shows up to seduce each guest by using their personal sin against them.
From choking a man to death on food and wine to drowning a woman in powdered gold, guillotining another man, trapping a lustful woman in an iron maiden, throwing an old man out a window and killing yet another woman with a snake, Lisa is pretty much giving Dr. Phibes a run for his money.
Only Alvin, who represents pride, survives Lisa's rampage. Satan appears to him and makes him a deal: the six dead people can return to life if Alvin gives up his soul. But can things ever be so simple when you deal with the Devil? And hey -- is it just coincidence that the villains of this movie are Lisa and the Devil?
The Devil's Nightmare is the only full-length movie that Jean Brismee directed. That's a shame because I kind of love this movie's mix of Gothic atmosphere and Eurosleaze sex and violence. And I absolutely adore the fake-out ending.