“Anyone who helps with the washing up can’t be all bad.”
Satanic Panic comes to the Hammer House of Horror in episode 10: ‘Guardian of the Abyss’, which stars Ray Lonnen (‘Harry’s Game’), Rosalyn Landor (‘The Devil Rides Out’) and Paul Darrow (‘Die Another Day’).
Charming antique exporter Michael (Lonnen) picks up a scrying glass at an antiques fair and Allison (Landor), a young woman fleeing a fate as the next sacrifice of devil worshippers led by an evil hypnotist (Darrow), soon after. The cult will do anything to get Allison and the glass back so they can complete a ritual that even Aleister Crowley nearly lost his mind trying, but can Michael’s courage and charisma keep both from their clutches?
The genteel world of antiquing becomes a life or death battle in another excellent episode full of creepy performances, sinister intentions and mind control that leads to a chilling finale.
A gang of young people call themselves the Living Dead. They terrorize the population from their small town. After an agreement with the devil, if they kill themselves firmly believing in it, they will survive and gain eternal life. Following their leader, they commit suicide one after the other,...
“What are we to make of such an apocryphal story?”
Brain surgery is probably stressful enough without the patient waking up mid-cerebral fiddle to scream “Leave my soul alone!”, but so begins the final ‘Hammer House of Horror’ episode: ‘The Mark of Satan’.
Edwin is a new mortuary assistant who,...
Short film by Jim Van Bebber, My Sweet Satan (1993). A group of directionless, bored, drug-using teenagers get involved in a cult, resulting in a murder.
