Night of the Demon

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Night of the Demon (released in the United States as Curse of the Demon) is a 1957 British horror film directed by Jacques Tourneur and starring Dana Andrews, Niall MacGinnis and Peggy Cummins. It was produced by Hal E. Chester and Frank Bevis, and was adapted from the M. R. James' short story "Casting the Runes", first featured in his 1911 collection More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary. The film's storyline concerns an American psychologist (Andrews) who travels to England to investigate a satanic cult suspected in more than one death. Turbulent artistic differences arose between Chester on one side and Tourneur and the screenwriter Charles Bennett on the other over Chester's plan to show the demon on screen, but Chester prevailed. To accelerate the pace and make the film more commercial, the 96-minute original feature was trimmed down to 82 minutes prior to its release in the United States. This shortened version was retitled Curse of the Demon, playing in June 1958 as the second half...

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