Classic 1940s type horror film made in the late 1950s by a master of the horror and noir genre. Film that deals with the concept of the occult in an interesting way. Notion of parchment that can control a man's destiny which ends up being burned in a fire was perhaps an inspirational device for Mario Bava's Baron Blood(1972). Images of unknown horror are exquisite. Night of the Demon(1957) is impressive because it uses the same kind of style as early Jacques Tourneur horror such as Cat People(1944) and I Walked with a Zombie(1946). The story has elements of Lovecraft and Wheatley in the frame of the plot.
Review of Curse of the Demon
