Demons of the Mind is a British

United Kingdom

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 period

Period piece

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 horror film

Horror film

Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres...

, produced by the Hammer

Hammer Film Productions

Hammer Film Productions is a film production company based in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1934, the company is best known for a series of Gothic "Hammer Horror" films made from the mid-1950s until the 1970s. Hammer also produced science fiction, thrillers, film noir and comedies and in later...

 studio. It was directed by Peter Sykes

Peter Sykes

Peter Sykes, FRSC was a British chemist and a former Fellow and Vice-Master of Christ's College, Cambridge. He is the author of highly popular undergraduate-level organic chemistry textbook A Guidebook to Mechanisms in Organic Chemistry, now in its sixth edition.-References:...

 and its cinematographer

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 was Arthur Grant. The cast includes Gillian Hills

Gillian Hills

Gillian Hills is an actress and singer. She rose to fame as a teenager in the 1960s in the British films Beat Girl and later, Blowup...

 (playing a role originally intended for Marianne Faithfull

Marianne Faithfull

Marianne Evelyn Faithfull is an award-winning English singer, songwriter and actress whose career has spanned five decades....

), Robert Hardy

Robert Hardy

Timothy Sydney Robert Hardy, CBE, FSA is an English actor with a long career in the theatre, film and television. He is also an acknowledged expert on the longbow.-Early life:...

, Patrick Magee

Patrick Magee (actor)

Patrick Magee was a Northern Irish actor best known for his collaborations with Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter, as well as his appearances in horror films and in Stanley Kubrick's films A Clockwork Orange and Barry Lyndon.-Early life:He was born Patrick McGee in Armagh, County Armagh, Northern...

, Michael Hordern

Michael Hordern

Sir Michael Murray Hordern was an English actor, knighted in 1983 for his services to the theatre, which stretched back to before the Second World War.-Personal life:...

, and Shane Briant

Shane Briant

Shane Briant is an actor and novelist. Briant studied Law at Trinity College Dublin but became a professional actor playing the name role in Hamlet at the Eblana theatre...

. The film was released in the US on a double bill with Fear in the Night

Fear in the Night (1972 film)

Fear in the Night is a 1972 British psychological horror film directed by Jimmy Sangster and starring Judy Geeson, Joan Collins and Peter Cushing. A young woman goes to take up a new position working in a boy's boarding school. She soon begins to believe she is losing her mind when a one armed man...

.

Plot

A widower locks up his two children, afraid that they will go mad, as did his wife. He then invites a doctor of dubious reputation to supervise the young people's mental health. Meanwhile, in the vicinity of the house, grisly murders are happening...

Cast

• Robert Hardy
  Robert Hardy
  Timothy Sydney Robert Hardy, CBE, FSA is an English actor with a long career in the theatre, film and television. He is also an acknowledged expert on the longbow.-Early life:...
  
   as Zorn
• Shane Briant
  Shane Briant
  Shane Briant is an actor and novelist. Briant studied Law at Trinity College Dublin but became a professional actor playing the name role in Hamlet at the Eblana theatre...
  
   as Emil
• Gillian Hills
  Gillian Hills
  Gillian Hills is an actress and singer. She rose to fame as a teenager in the 1960s in the British films Beat Girl and later, Blowup...
  
   as Elizabeth
• Yvonne Mitchell
  Yvonne Mitchell
  Yvonne Mitchell was an English stage, television and film actor. She was born Yvonne Frances Joseph, but in 1946 changed her name by deed poll to Yvonne Mitchell . Her mother's maiden name was Mitchell. After beginning her acting career in theatre, Mitchell progressed to films in the late 1940s...
  
   as Hilda
• Paul Jones as Carl Richter
• Patrick Magee
  Patrick Magee (actor)
  Patrick Magee was a Northern Irish actor best known for his collaborations with Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter, as well as his appearances in horror films and in Stanley Kubrick's films A Clockwork Orange and Barry Lyndon.-Early life:He was born Patrick McGee in Armagh, County Armagh, Northern...
  
   as Falkenberg
• Kenneth J. Warren
  Kenneth J. Warren
  Kenneth John Warren was an Australian actor.-Selected Filmography:*Long John Silver *I Was Monty's Double *The Criminal *The Double Man *S*P*Y*S...
  
   as Klaus
• Michael Hordern
  Michael Hordern
  Sir Michael Murray Hordern was an English actor, knighted in 1983 for his services to the theatre, which stretched back to before the Second World War.-Personal life:...
  
   as Priest
• Robert Brown as Fischinger
• Virginia Wetherell
  Virginia Wetherell
  Virginia Wetherell is an English actress best known for her roles in Hammer horror films such as Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde and Demons of the Mind...
  
   as Inge
• Deirdre Costello as Magda
• Barry Stanton as Ernst
• Sidonie Bond as Zorn's Wife
• Thomas Heathcote
  Thomas Heathcote
  Thomas Heathcote was a British character actor.He was educated at Bradfield College, near Reading in Berkshire, England. His films included A Night to Remember , Village of the Damned , Billy Budd , A Man for All Seasons , Night of the Big Heat and Quatermass and the Pit...
  
  as Coachman