Satan's Slave

Goat's Head Soup.

Satan's Slave is a cult film, a horror pic for those with a bent for occult based euro trash made on a small budget. Plot has a young woman played by Candace Glendenning caught up in a devil worshipping cult run by her uncle Alexander Yorke (Michael Gough).

It's full of the familiar tropes of such movies, plenty of nudity, violence and blood, and of course some interesting attire - gotta love those goat head masks! But it's all so tediously ridiculous and acted accordingly. Yes the violence is cold and nasty, and there's shock value here, including attempted rape, making this one that for sure would have had the censors of the time looking nervously through the print. But the interim passages of dialogue, of which th...

Sometimes trippy British superantural horror-thriller has its moments and seeing Michael Gough in a villanous role was fun, but the acting from the lead actress was rather bad, or I should say, bland.

Deviltry in the shadowy woods outside London

A young woman with premonitions (Candace Glendenning) visits her uncle at his mysterious country manor (Michael Gough) where something tragic happens and she ends up staying to recover, getting close to her cousin (Martin Potter). But something weird and devilish is going on. Barbara Kellerman is on hand as the secretary at the estate.

Satans Slave (1976) is a British flick whose plot is similar to "The Witches," aka The Devils Own (1966), and "Curse of the Crimson Altar, aka The Crimson Cult (1968), both of which begin and end with occultic witcheries while the entire midsection is mostly slow rural happenings. Its also comparable to "The City of the Dead" (1960) and "The Wicker Man...