Disciple of Death
{{Short description|1972 British film directed by Tom Parkinson}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Disciple of Death
| image = Disciple_of_Death_film_Lobby_card_(1972).png
| caption = Lobby card
| director = Tom Parkinson
| writer = Tom Parkinson
Mike Raven (as Churton Fairman)
| producer = Tom Parkinson
Mike Raven
| starring = {{unbulleted list | Mike Raven | Ronald Lacey | Nicholas Amer | Stephen Bradley}}
| cinematography = William Brayne
| studio = Embassy Pictures
| distributor =
| released = {{Film date|1972}}
| runtime = 84 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| budget =
| gross =
}}
Disciple of Death is a 1972 British horror film directed by Tom Parkinson and starring Mike Raven, Ronald Lacey and Nicholas Amer.{{Cite web |title=Disciple of Death |url=https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150154496 |access-date=1 July 2024 |website=British Film Institute Collections Search}} It was written by Parkinson and Mike Raven.
Plot
In 18th century Cornwall, a minion of Satan poses as a priest to get closer to young, virginal women needed for human sacrifice.
Cast
- Mike Raven as stranger
- Ronald Lacey as Parson
- Nicholas Amer as Melchisidech
- Stephen Bradley as Ralph
- Marguerite Hardiman as Julia
- Virginia Wetherell as Ruth
- George Belbin as Squire
- Betty Alberge as Dorothy
- Rusty Goffe as dwarf
- Louise Jameson as Betty
- Joe Dunlop as Mathew
- Daisika as gypsy
Reception
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Disciple of Death, the second offering from the Crucible of Terror team, shares with its predecessor the same leading players (Mike Raven and Ronald Lacey) and the use of Cornish locations. The film veers uneasily between Grand Guignol (the close-up of a hand squeezing blood from a heart into a goblet; the dwarf feeding noisily on the parson's neck) and parody, the latter emphasised by Raven's gestures and intonation (straight out of Victorian Era melodrama) and by Lacey's sustained impersonation of Charles Laughton. Tom Parkinson, who both photographed and co-scripted the previous film, shows a good eye for colour, especially the varied reds in the scenes of ritual sacrifice. Occasionally, though, his over-fondness for telephoto shots in the location sequences lends a deadening flatness to the frame."{{Cite journal |date=1 January 1972 |title=Disciple of Death |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1305834329 |journal=The Monthly Film Bulletin |volume=39 |issue=456 |pages=230 |id={{ProQuest|1305834329}} |via=ProQuest}}
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|0068489|Disciple of Death}}
- {{YouTube|id=oOaAsWMB5to|title="Disciple of Death (16mm)"}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20210507215418/https://www.britishhorrorfilms.co.uk/discipleofdeath.shtml Review] by Chris Wood (archived from the [https://www.britishhorrorfilms.co.uk/discipleofdeath.shtml original])
- [https://moviesandmania.com/2013/07/17/disciple-of-death/ Reviews] at moviesandmania.com