Blood on Satan’s Claw Beautifully re-mastered print. (1971) DVD Color Optional subtitles / close captions in English. Shown in original aspect ratio Approx. 93 Min. (Region 1 - Playable in North America - The US, Canada, Mexico, etc.)
Starring: Patrick Wymark, Linda Hayden, Barry Andrews, Michele Dotrice, Wendy Padbury, Anthony Ainley, Charlotte Mitchell, Tamara Ustinov, Simon Williams, James Hayter, Howard Goorney, Avice Landone, Robin Davies and Godfrey James. Written by Robert Wynne-Simmons and Piers Haggard. Directed by Piers Haggard.
In a rural village in early 18th-century England, farmer Ralph Gower (Barry Andrews) uncovers a deformed skull with one intact eye and strange fur. He insists that the local judge (Patrick Wymark) look at it, but it mysteriously vanishes. The judge disregards the incident, crediting it to Ralph's superstitious fears. Meanwhile, Peter Edmonton (Simon Williams) brings his fiancée, Rosalind Barton (Tammy Ustinov), to meet his aunt, Mistress Banham (Avice Landone), with whom the judge is staying. Mistress Banham and the judge disapprove of the match and arrange for Rosalind to sleep in a disused attic room. Rosalind begins screaming during the night and injures Banham when she investigates, causing her to fall mysteriously ill.
Vincent Canby, of The New York Times, praised the performances in the film, adding that it has "a good deal of the quality of an H. P. Lovecraft work, in the vulnerability of even its heroic characters, as well as in its pastoral landscape that contains the threat of "eeveel" within every sun-dappled glade.