Product: The Devil's Bride [VHS] (1968)
Rating: 3.0
A mystical classic of social criticism.
This Hammer cult classic can be enjoyed in two ways:1. as a campy horror melodrama, with daft names, covens, black magic rites, absurdly solemn uttering of Tolkitsch, and risible special effects.2. More seriously, as an investigation into the smug assumptions of Middle England. Richleau is a very ambiguous hero - a devout Christian, he is versed in the black arts, homosocial (at least!), and seemingly anti-family. The Satanists, with the their pagan evocations of Camelot, have more claim to rural England than the timid stockbrokers who now populate it.