Night

The movie itself is actually in Black and White

The Night of the Demon (aka The Curse of the Demon ) is a B&W horror movie from 1957. It was approved for posting by the art director of this blog for its classy B&W style. This is also a 7+ rated B-movie on the imdb. The poster & trailer combination will not be enough for this culty flick. For the real addicts (like me) the links to the full movie are added below.

[With this type of critic, you can make every film look culty … LOL]

At the same time that Ingmar Bergman’s “The Seventh Seal” was introduced for the art house existentialist audiences, B-movie veteran Jacques Tourneur’s entry into another 50s genre, the monster movie, tapped as potently into humankind’s fear of the dark unknown.

American psychologist Dana Andrews investigates the death of a colleague possibly involving a British devil-cult leader, erupting in a Hegelian death-struggle between rationality and occultism; the outcome emerges when one side acknowledges the power of the other if only to turn it against him.

Tourner’s cinema embodies the best of both worlds, utilizing an impressive repertoire of scare techniques – from shock close-ups to long tracking shots shrouded in smoke and shadow; from disorienting geometries achieved through camera and editing to blunt, explicit imagery – in the service of genuine inquiry into the nature of man’s relationship with the supernatural. The results leave a lingering chill, even with Tourneur’s compromise to his producer by, instead of his preferred tactic of perpetual concealment, having to present the titular demon outright (a literalizing of the film’s central concept that’s as egregious as Bergman’s chess-playing Death). The film is perhaps never so unnerving as when it envisions evil in the simplest terms: a storm that descends with sudden implacable force on a children’s party; a slip of paper flapping relentlessly against a fire grate towards its own incineration; a man stumbling down railroad tracks, literally chasing after his life in vain.

http://rapidshare.com/files/15398063/NGHTODMN57.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/15402537/NGHTODMN57.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/15407283/NGHTODMN57.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/15411706/NGHTODMN57.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/15415909/NGHTODMN57.part5.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/15419889/NGHTODMN57.part6.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/15423499/NGHTODMN57.part7.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/15424313/NGHTODMN57.part8.rar

psw = radani

All credits go to the original poster.

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