Daughters of Satan (1972)

• Year: 1972
• Released: 17 Nov 1972
• Country: United States, Philippines
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• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068448/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/daughters_of_satan
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• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: R
• Genre: Horror
• Runtime: 90 min
• Writer: John C. Higgins, John A. Bushelman
• Director: Hollingsworth Morse
• Cast: Tom Selleck, Barra Grant, Tani Guthrie
• Keywords: witch, cult, philippines, evil witch,

	4.4/10
	21% – Critics
	21% – Audience

Daughters of Satan Storyline

James Robertson buys a painting depicting witches being burned at the stake, one of whom bears an uncanny resemblance to his wife, Chris. Chris, gradually taken over by the personality of the witch in the painting that she resembles, allies herself with two other reincarnated witches to plan James’ death, as he proves to be a descendant of the man responsible for the witches’ fate.—Doug Sederberg

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Early Tom Selleck For The Win

James Robertson (Tom Selleck) buys a painting depicting witches being burned at the stake, one of whom bears an uncanny resemblance to his wife (Barra Grant).

This is Tom Selleck before “Magnum PI”, but still with the same great mustache… much, much better than the film “Runaway”. Some of the stunts are pretty cool (like flipping over a horse). I would like to believe Selleck did them himself, but I am not so gullible.

The film opens with a pretty intense scene, possibly a sacrifice, and soon after we are treated to a story of a satanic knife… definitely a solid start to a movie.

Director Hollingsworth Morse worked almost exclusively in television, and it shows, though not in a bad way. The quality is television quality, but the story really holds strong for the full length.

The film takes place in the Philippines… and it makes me wonder: was this a decision because of the plot (which does revolve around Spanish conquistadors) or because of budget? The Philippines were a notorious hotspot for low budget films… curious.

Fun, entertaining and highly enjoyable

After buying a strange painting at a sale, a man begins to suspect something sinister is occurring after noticing his wife’s resemblance to a figure in the painting and comes to realize that a coven of witches are involved and tries to stop them before he becomes a victim of their wrath.

This was an admittedly fun witchcraft movie, though it does has a few minor areas of improvement to really work itself out of it’s overall hum-drum feel. That’s the main fault of the pacing in this one feeling just so dreary that nothing really exciting happens, with everyone tending to talk about the proceedings since the film plays it off as a mystery about painting and the reincarnation which can be fun but overall it tends to just drag the pace out. That said, the mystery angle here is actually inviting due to being a rather creepy mystery surrounding the painting, the few action scenes are rather well-done and it’s certainly got enough horror elements to keep it enjoyable. Plus, any film that opens with topless female whipping definitely has it’s head in the right direction. Overall, not bad but has some problems.

Rated R: Violence, Language and Nudity.

Neglected slice of scariness

A very rarely seen little oddity this but I like it. The unusual location of the Philippines is pleasing and there a couple of very creepy sequences. The Robertsons seem positively crazy about each other which is a sure sign she’ll end up doing very nasty things to him, but they were both quite believeable and the supporting cast were all adequate. The painting that is the centre of the whole mystery is very chilling, especially in the scenes where Jim meets the new housekeeper and then glances at the picture and sees her in it. The death of the Doctor is very eerie but best of all has to be the very simple scene of Chris lying in bed and hearing a voice in the night calling out “Christina…” Very creepy especially if you are watching this movie for the first time on late night television and wonder if the sound is on the screen or not! There is also an extraordinary sequence where Jim sees movement outside the house at night and investigates only to be attacked. When he returns to the house the incident is almost forgotten in his bemusement..just like a sort of “was it a dream?” sleepy kind of unreality. My main reason for liking this movie is that compared to what Hammer were churning out it is different and scary, unlike most of Hammer’s films, and doesn’t need to rely on gore. It also predates The Omen and The Exorcist and yet deals with the subject matter intelligently, so in a sense it is ahead of it’s time. Good stuff…not exactly the greatest movie ever made but effective and successful in its clearly limited ambitions.