At the end of their run, Hammer took another shot at adapting a Dennis Wheatley novel. Their previous Wheatley story The Devil Rides Out had Terence Fisher as the director and Richard Matheson adapting the book, this film didn't have that level of talent. However To The Devil a Daughter isn't bad.
Christopher Lee is the defrocked priest who has established a cult that worships the demon Astaroth. He plans to use one of his "nuns," Nastassia Kinski to summon Astaroth into the world. To the rescue is occult writer Richard Widmark. Lee and Widmark are quite good in their parts, Kinski does what she does best, take off her clothes. Overall the film actually has a fairly decent cast.
Since To The Devil A Daughter was made towards the end of film production for Hammer the sex, nudity and violence were ramped up to compete with films like Rosemary's Baby. None of that stuff really brings anything to the film and I doubt that the original author Dennis Wheatly would have been very happy about these little additions to his story.
Apparently Widmark was a huge pain in the butt during filming the script went through numerous revisions and the budget was cut. Considering all the issues this film turned out fairly well.
95 minutes.
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