The Devil's Nightmare
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| Directed by | Jean Brismée |
| Produced by | Charles Lecocq |
| Written by | Patrice Rhomm |
| Starring |
Erika Blanc Jean Servais Jacques Monseau Ivana Novak Lorenzo Terzon Shirley Corrigan Colette Emmanuelle Christian Maillet Lucien Raimbourg Daniel Emilfork |
| Music by | Alessandro Alessandroni |
| Cinematography | André Goeffers |
| Edited by | P. Panos |
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Release date
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1971 |
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Running time
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94 min. |
| Country |
Belgium Italy |
| Language | French |
Devil's Nightmare (1971) is a Belgian/Italian horror film first released in Belgium under the title La plus longue nuit du diable and in Italy as La terrificante notte del demonio.
Baron von Rhoneberg (Jean Servais), a former World War II German general, sacrificed his daughter as the war ended. This condemned his family to be placed under a terrible curse. Many years later, he tells the story to a reporter who wishes to write an article about it and take pictures of his castle. However, the Baron is against any photographs. Despite his protests, the young woman goes up to visit the castle and take pictures but is killed when a dry thunderstorm suddenly rolls in while she is in close proximity to it. Her body is taken back to the town where it is discovered she has a burn in the shape of a lobster-like claw on her arm which is confirmed as the Mark of the Devil.
Some time later, a group of tourists become lost during a bus trip. They meet Satan in the guise of a man (Daniel Emilfork) who recommends that they take the ferry boat, but they arrive too late to catch the last ferry of the day. They are then directed to an old castle which offers room and board. When they arrive, one of the doors opens by itself and a piece of the façade breaks off, nearly killing one of the tourists. Hans (Maurice De Groote) the butler greets them and shows each of them to their rooms giving them a briefing of the history of two of the rooms, one of which bears the same lobster-like claw mark on the floor tiles in front of the fireplace. After the guests have been accommodated to their rooms, Hans goes down to a laboratory basement and informs the Baron who is practicing alchemy. Over dinner the Baron explains his family's history to his guests. His ancestor made a pact and sold his soul to the Devil in exchange for his services. Satan demanded that the eldest daughter of each generation become a succubus. When asked if he ever had a daughter he shakes his head no.
A young woman named Lisa Müller (Erika Blanc) also comes to stay at the castle and proceeds to seduce each tourist according to their own personal weaknesses, then kills them, using their own sin against them. Each tourist is a representative of one of the Seven Deadly Sins. Matt Ducard (Christian Maillet) represents Gluttony and dies by choking to death while gorging on food and wine. Nancy (Colette Emmanuelle) dies representing Greed by drowning in a hidden treasure hoard of powdered gold. Howard (Lorenzo Terzon), representing Envy, and Corrine (Ivana Novak), embodying Lust, are murdered while in the middle of an adulterous tryst. Wrathful old Mr Mason (Lucien Raimbourg) is thrown out of a window. Regine (Shirley Corrigan) dies as Sloth when a snake kills her in her sleep. Only the seminarian, Alvin Sorelle (Jacques Monseau) as Pride, seems immune to Lisa's seductive charms. When six of the seven tourists are dead, Satan appears to Alvin. Alvin offers his soul if Satan will return the dead tourists to life, to which Satan agrees. The next morning, Alvin awakes to find that the dead tourists have indeed been returned to life as though the previous night's events never happened and are having breakfast before they set out to continue their trip. Even Alvin himself remembers it as only a dream.
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