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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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Eye of the Devil / int_117b3429 | type |
A Taste of the Lash | |
Eye of the Devil / int_117b3429 | comment |
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 | type |
Evil Sounds Deep | |
Eye of the Devil / int_16364a29 | comment |
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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Eye of the Devil / int_187bddc1 | type |
Religion of Evil | |
Eye of the Devil / int_187bddc1 | comment |
Religion of Evil: A cult of pagans who conduct ritual human sacrifice surely qualifies. | |
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Eye of the Devil / int_1fdaf8ff | type |
Ominous Latin Chanting | |
Eye of the Devil / int_1fdaf8ff | comment |
Ominous Latin Chanting: The very very ominous mass conducted by Père Dominic. Turns out it's a pagan ritual. | |
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Eye of the Devil / int_27a42ebc | type |
Spiritual Successor | |
Eye of the Devil / int_27a42ebc | comment |
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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Eye of the Devil / int_28114487 | type |
Bald of Evil | |
Eye of the Devil / int_28114487 | comment |
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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Eye of the Devil / int_28766e5d | type |
The Straight and Arrow Path | |
Eye of the Devil / int_28766e5d | comment |
The Straight and Arrow Path: Philippe is ritually sacrificed with an arrow to the heart. | |
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Eye of the Devil / int_2e338ce4 | type |
The Cavalry Arrives Late | |
Eye of the Devil / int_2e338ce4 | comment |
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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Eye of the Devil / int_319e4a2f | type |
Even Evil Has Standards | |
Eye of the Devil / int_319e4a2f | comment |
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 | type |
Kick the Dog | |
Eye of the Devil / int_34dcfc96 | comment |
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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Eye of the Devil / int_396e1c2a | type |
Face Death with Dignity | |
Eye of the Devil / int_396e1c2a | comment |
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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Eye of the Devil / int_454e6cf5 | type |
Hypnotic Eyes | |
Eye of the Devil / int_454e6cf5 | comment |
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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Eye of the Devil / int_4e3d253b | type |
Downer Ending | |
Eye of the Devil / int_4e3d253b | comment |
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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Eye of the Devil / int_4e40a927 | type |
Sleepwalking | |
Eye of the Devil / int_4e40a927 | comment |
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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Eye of the Devil / int_5290f613 | type |
A Fête Worse than Death | |
Eye of the Devil / int_5290f613 | comment |
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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Eye of the Devil / int_615fdb1f | type |
Dream Sequence | |
Eye of the Devil / int_615fdb1f | comment |
Dream Sequence: Catherine has a nightmare of all the scary things she's seen in and around the castle. | |
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Eye of the Devil / int_707ee167 | type |
Secret Circle of Secrets | |
Eye of the Devil / int_707ee167 | comment |
Secret Circle of Secrets: The coven of pagans, which dons the standard black robes when conducting occult rites. | |
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Eye of the Devil / int_73418f96 | type |
Psychic-Assisted Suicide | |
Eye of the Devil / int_73418f96 | comment |
Psychic-Assisted Suicide: Odile tries to do this to Catherine solely for for own amusement and nearly succeeds. | |
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Eye of the Devil / int_75e2bf23 | type |
Chiaroscuro | |
Eye of the Devil / int_75e2bf23 | comment |
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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Eye of the Devil / int_9245d989 | type |
Sinister Minister | |
Eye of the Devil / int_9245d989 | comment |
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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Eye of the Devil / int_95afab6 | type |
Black Cloak | |
Eye of the Devil / int_95afab6 | comment |
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 | type |
Faux Affably Evil | |
Eye of the Devil / int_95b7c400 | comment |
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 | type |
Foreshadowing | |
Eye of the Devil / int_9d12bbc1 | comment |
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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Eye of the Devil / int_a6049c20 | type |
Disturbed Doves | |
Eye of the Devil / int_a6049c20 | comment |
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 | type |
Gray Rain of Depression | |
Eye of the Devil / int_a8982539 | comment |
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 | type |
Town with a Dark Secret | |
Eye of the Devil / int_b02f996a | comment |
Town with a Dark Secret: The village is full of pagans who occasionally conduct human sacrifices. | |
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Eye of the Devil / int_b9af5ef3 | type |
The Film of the Book | |
Eye of the Devil / int_b9af5ef3 | comment |
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 | type |
Impairment Shot | |
Eye of the Devil / int_bc3b029b | comment |
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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Eye of the Devil / int_c40c8b74 | type |
And Starring | |
Eye of the Devil / int_c40c8b74 | comment |
And Starring: Sharon Tate gets an "And Introducing" credit after all the other actors are credited. | |
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Eye of the Devil / int_c4286511 | type |
For Doom the Bell Tolls | |
Eye of the Devil / int_c4286511 | comment |
For Doom the Bell Tolls: The chiming bells of the "le treize jour" parade come off as scary in context. | |
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Eye of the Devil / int_c66cb5a9 | type |
Human Sacrifice | |
Eye of the Devil / int_c66cb5a9 | comment |
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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Eye of the Devil / int_c9d9a85f | type |
Hot Witch | |
Eye of the Devil / int_c9d9a85f | comment |
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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Eye of the Devil / int_caf8c66c | type |
The Chains of Commanding | |
Eye of the Devil / int_caf8c66c | comment |
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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Eye of the Devil / int_cc39902e | type |
Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon | |
Eye of the Devil / int_cc39902e | comment |
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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Eye of the Devil / int_d1b4f0ef | type |
Everybody Lives | |
Eye of the Devil / int_d1b4f0ef | comment |
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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Eye of the Devil / int_d51263b9 | type |
Fake Shemp | |
Eye of the Devil / int_d51263b9 | comment |
Fake Shemp: Inverted. Some long shots of Kim Novak were still used after she was replaced. | |
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Eye of the Devil / int_da53340 | type |
Religious Horror | |
Eye of the Devil / int_da53340 | comment |
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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Eye of the Devil / int_e11b003d | type |
Translation Convention | |
Eye of the Devil / int_e11b003d | comment |
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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Eye of the Devil / int_e5411cdf | type |
Cult | |
Eye of the Devil / int_e5411cdf | comment |
Cult: The entire town is a pagan cult masquerading as a normal French Catholic village. | |
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Eye of the Devil / int_f0e85546 | type |
Unbuilt Trope | |
Eye of the Devil / int_f0e85546 | comment |
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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A Fête Worse than Death / int_aa48b0d5 | |
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