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Eye of the Devil

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Eye of the Devil is a 1966 British folk horror film directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Donald Pleasence, Sharon Tate (in her film debut), and David Hemmings.After receiving an ominous summons from a creepy bearded messenger, French nobleman Philippe de Montfaucon (Niven) tells his wife Catherine (Kerr) that he must leave immediately for the family estate of Bellenac, a vineyard out in the country. Though he asks her to remain in Paris with their children Jacques and Antoinette, Catherine decides to follow after Jacques tells her of a dream he had of his father needing him.In Bellenac, she finds a thoroughly creepy town with thoroughly creepy people, who all look at her oddly. The Montfaucon mansion is a creepy old castle. Two super-creepy siblings, Odile and Christian de Caray (Tate and Hemmings), roam the grounds of the mansion shooting doves out the sky. A creepy and Obviously Evil priest, Père Dominic (Pleasence), knows a lot more than he is telling. And on her first night in the mansion, Catherine stumbles upon a creepy ceremony in which the de Carays present one of their dead doves to a mysterious group of people in black cloaks.Basically, it's creepy.
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A Taste of the Lash
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A Taste of the Lash: In a fairly obvious appeal to Fetish, Phillipe whips Odile after Odile tries to kill Catherine.
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 Eye of the Devil / int_16364a29
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Evil Sounds Deep
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Evil Sounds Deep: Odile is one of the main villains and speaks in a very low, menacing voice. Sharon Tate even took extensive voice lessons to make her voice deeper to fit the character.
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Religion of Evil
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Religion of Evil: A cult of pagans who conduct ritual human sacrifice surely qualifies.
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Ominous Latin Chanting
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Ominous Latin Chanting: The very very ominous mass conducted by Père Dominic. Turns out it's a pagan ritual.
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Spiritual Successor
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Spiritual Successor: It has one in The Wicker Man (1973), another British Horror film about a small community with a dark secret, whose leads are constantly put off by the creepy behavior they encounter.
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Bald of Evil
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Bald of Evil: Père Dominic. One of many times in his career that Donald Pleasence plays a weird, evil bald guy.
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The Straight and Arrow Path
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The Straight and Arrow Path: Philippe is ritually sacrificed with an arrow to the heart.
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The Cavalry Arrives Late
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The Cavalry Arrives Late: Not that it's clear what she would have done anyway, but Catherine arrives just in time to see Phillipe take an arrow from Christian.
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Even Evil Has Standards
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Even Evil Has Standards: It's revealed that Père Dominic and other followers don't want to kill Catherine, simply to frighten her enough to leave so the ceremony can be conducted. He gets extremely angry with Odile when she tries to kill Catherine solely for her own amusement.
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 Eye of the Devil / int_34dcfc96
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Kick the Dog
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Kick the Dog: Odile hypnotizes Catherine and tries to get her to walk off the roof of the church for no other reason than sheer sadism.
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Face Death with Dignity
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Face Death with Dignity: Phillipe knows exactly what is expected of him and fully accepts his fate from the start and goes without any resistance.
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Hypnotic Eyes
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Hypnotic Eyes: Odile has these, as seen when she hypnotizes Catherine with her stare and nearly gets Catherine to kill herself.
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Downer Ending
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Downer Ending: Phillipe dies in a pagan human sacrifice ritual. And little Jacques has bought into the religion and will continue the tradition.
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Sleepwalking
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Sleepwalking: Jacques is apparently prone to this, as seen when he wanders out of his bedroom and starts talking about how he wants to take a motorcar to see his dad, while still asleep.
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A Fête Worse than Death
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A Fête Worse than Death: "Le treize jour,", in English "the thirteen days", supposedly the town fair but actually the rite for the human sacrifice.
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Dream Sequence
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Dream Sequence: Catherine has a nightmare of all the scary things she's seen in and around the castle.
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Secret Circle of Secrets
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Secret Circle of Secrets: The coven of pagans, which dons the standard black robes when conducting occult rites.
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Psychic-Assisted Suicide
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Psychic-Assisted Suicide: Odile tries to do this to Catherine solely for for own amusement and nearly succeeds.
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Chiaroscuro
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Chiaroscuro: It's a black and white film, and the vast empty spaces of Castle Bellenac are artfully lit, filling the place with spooky shadows.
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Sinister Minister
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Sinister Minister: The unblinking, ominous Père Dominic, who speaks in a spooky monotone and is bald Donald Pleasance, so therefore Obviously Evil. Turns out he's not a Catholic priest, he's a pagan priest.
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Black Cloak
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Black Cloak: How the cultists dress for their ceremonies, like whatever was going on with the dead dove, or the ritual sacrifice of Phillipe at the end.
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 Eye of the Devil / int_95b7c400
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Faux Affably Evil
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Faux Affably Evil: Odile is very charismatic and always has a polite tone and extremely creepy and sadistic.
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 Eye of the Devil / int_9d12bbc1
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Foreshadowing
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Foreshadowing: Catherine mentions that on her one previous visit to Bellenac, it struck her as "someplace out of the middle ages." She's quite right.
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Disturbed Doves
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Disturbed Doves: A flock of doves flies away when Catherine drives into the courtyard of the castle. The doves get more disturbed when Christian shoots one out of the air.
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 Eye of the Devil / int_a8982539
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Gray Rain of Depression
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Gray Rain of Depression: It's pouring rain as Catherine takes her children away after failing to save Phillipe.
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 Eye of the Devil / int_b02f996a
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Town with a Dark Secret
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Town with a Dark Secret: The village is full of pagans who occasionally conduct human sacrifices.
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The Film of the Book
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The Film of the Book: Adapted from the 1964 novel Day of the Arrow by Philip Loraine (Pen Name of Robin Estridge, who also wrote the screenplay adaptation).
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 Eye of the Devil / int_bc3b029b
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Impairment Shot
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Impairment Shot: Catherine's vision goes blurry when Odile is hypnotizing her, with a view to make her take a fatal step off a high wall. They're interrupted just in time.
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And Starring
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And Starring: Sharon Tate gets an "And Introducing" credit after all the other actors are credited.
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For Doom the Bell Tolls
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For Doom the Bell Tolls: The chiming bells of the "le treize jour" parade come off as scary in context.
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Human Sacrifice
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Human Sacrifice: The men of the de Montfaucon family, going back for centuries, are occasionally sacrificed in a fertility rite, when the crops are failing. Phillipe is called back home to be sacrificed because the vineyard is failing after three years of drought. Unlike many examples of this trope, he is fully aware of this from the start and goes to his fate completely voluntarily, never even trying to run away.
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Hot Witch
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Hot Witch: Besides being a pagan, Odile can do some magic, like when she causes a toad to appear and then changes the toad into a dove. She is also played by Sharon Tate, crammed into some tight black dresses.
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The Chains of Commanding
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The Chains of Commanding: It's nice to be a count with a large estate and a whole town to work it for you, but it's less nice when you are obligated to come back home to be ritually murdered.
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Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon
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Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: Odile is played by the stunningly beautiful Sharon Tate and is a witch who is not afraid to use her magic for wicked ends.
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Everybody Lives
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Everybody Lives: Other than Phillipe, whose fate was sealed pretty much from the start and who went to his death completely willingly, every major character is still alive at the end of the film.
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Fake Shemp
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Fake Shemp: Inverted. Some long shots of Kim Novak were still used after she was replaced.
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Religious Horror
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Religious Horror: A local pagan cult, which has taken on much of the iconography and symbolism of the Catholic Church, including black masses that look a lot like the regular Mass, and the use of crosses and Christian symbolism for their human sacrifice.
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Translation Convention
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Translation Convention: A film set in France with a cast speaking English. Makes for a couple of odd moments, like when Catherine finds a carved inscription written in French and reads it in English.
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Cult
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Cult: The entire town is a pagan cult masquerading as a normal French Catholic village.
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Unbuilt Trope
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Unbuilt Trope: It preceded The Wicker Man (1973) and other films in that vein, but avoids many of the conventions of the Town with a Dark Secret genre. Most notably, Philippe, rather than being an unwitting outsider, is a lifelong and full fledged member of the religion, is fully aware of the town's secret and what is expected of him and never tries to run away, meeting his eventual fate without resistance and seeing it as a necessary part of his faith, and the focus is mostly on Catherine and her encounters with the townspeople. And the creepy behavior she encounters is deliberately over the top, a way to frighten her enough to leave so she won't interfere with the sacrifice. And despite some close calls, Catherine and her children both survive and it's made clear Père Dominic never wanted to hurt them either, albeit with the implication that her son Jacques is being groomed take over Philippe's role in the pagan religion.
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Eye of the Devil

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