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"La plus longue nuit du diable" is a pretty weird movie indeed. I've never seen a movie which'd succeeded with "the possessed by Satan" - theme as well as this movie did. The actors sure suit their characters very well and the acting is not bad at all either! They've really found the best person to play Satan and the best and the most beautiful succubus ever. The make-up of the succubus was very well thought of too and she really looked like as if she was possessed.

The plot itself isn't bad at all and it's got a twist in the end. This movie was enjoyable, but not so scary though.

I've never seen such an unnecessary cruel scene of a baby getting killed. This movie is not for sensitive people, but for those who enjoy classic horror this movie is a cult classic.

Then again this movie's got the most longest lesbian scene ever. It's pictured in a really innocent way and in a way it's really clean and beautiful. Back in the 70's it might have looked depraved and sinful and in some countries it might have been cut completely. Today it just looks funny. I do understand why this was the last movie of the director. They just couldn't tolerate this! Can you?

This movie appears to be 30 years ahead of its time. This film has it all; sex scenes, murders that fit well with the characters, and a decent looking devil.

The thing I liked most was how they incorporated the 7 deadly sins for each of the 7 tourists. The fat man was killed off under Gluttony, the guy who was killed for Envy had a wife who was killed under Greed, The blonde girl was killed for being Sloth, the old man was killed for Wrath and the brunette was killed for Lust. I'm sure the preacher was killed after the movie for Pride.

Most of the movie was decent but some of it was downright dumb. I give it 7 out of 10.

I love when movies have more than one title. You may know of this movie by its Belgian title, La Plus Longue Nuit du Diable (The Devil's Longest Night). In Italy, it's called La Terrificante Notte del Demonio (The Terrifying Night of the Demon). And it's also played as The Devil Walks at Midnight.

When a busload of tourists on holiday -- seven of them, all representing the seven deadly sins -- get lost, they end up at a gloomy castle. Could that be the same castle where we watched Nazis kill a baby at the end of World War II in the opening? Of course it is. That was the castle's master, Baron von Runberg, who sacrificed his baby daughter because of an ancient family curse that makes the first-born daughter into an insatiable succubus.

After a dinner in which the Baron explains all of this to his guests, Lisa Muller (Erika Blanc, who shows up in all manner of Eurohorror like Mario Bava's Kill, Baby, Kill and The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave) shows up to seduce each guest by using their personal sin against them.

From choking a man to death on food and wine to drowning a woman in powdered gold, guillotining another man, trapping a lustful woman in an iron maiden, throwing an old man out a window and killing yet another woman with a snake, Lisa is pretty much giving Dr. Phibes a run for his money.

Only Alvin, who represents pride, survives Lisa's rampage. Satan appears to him and makes him a deal: the six dead people can return to life if Alvin gives up his soul. But can things ever be so simple when you deal with the Devil? And hey -- is it just coincidence that the villains of this movie are Lisa and the Devil?

The Devil's Nightmare is the only full-length movie that Jean Brismee directed. That's a shame because I kind of love this movie's mix of Gothic atmosphere and Eurosleaze sex and violence. And I absolutely adore the fake-out ending.

Tourists and their bus driver must stay overnight at a château because of travel complications. What they don't know is that a succubus plans to prey on their innermost desires(each character preyed upon represents one of the seven deadly sins..an intriguing ingredient in the film's success)taking their souls from them, leaving the mark of Satan as they perish. The succubus' main desire is the conquest of a man studying to be a priest..if she can win his soul, a man of God, then her goal is a successful one. The succubus is played by the evocative Erika Blanc who only shows her true face(one quite hideous truly representing her evil)when she is about to vanquish her victims. Amonst the victims is the bus driver who likes to gorge on food, a wealthy woman who desires the supposed gold of the château's Baron von Rhoneberg(Jean Servais), a crusty old curmudgeon who thinks he knows it all and never ceases to insult others, etc.

There's no doubt that this film unfortunately suffers from a shoe-string budget, but director Jean Brismée really has a creepy château to provide an eerie sense of dread as each character walks unknowingly unto certain doom. Erika's "ugly make-up" representing her true face is quite creepy and the actress succeeds in her role as this soldier for Satan who relishes taking souls from those who harbor lusts of this world.

The ultimate question is will the "future" Priest be able to survive the advances of the succubus, or fall prey to lascivious wanton fleshly desire?

"The Devil's Nightmare" is Eurotrash about seven travelers trapped in a castle. But the castle's resident family is cursed: every firstborn daughter is a succubus! And there are Nazis! Mostly, this movie is an excuse for gorgeous Erika Blanc to run around in Frederick's of Hollywood style outfits as she plays the succubus. And as such, it succeeds.

The travelers are supposed to represent the Seven Deadly Sins, but we only get gluttony, greed, lust and wrath. Maybe the blonde is supposed to represent vanity, but she gets scared to death by a python, so that goes nowhere.

"The Devil's Nightmare" is very awkward and talky and slooow, but I won't deny that it has a certain sleazy charm and watchability in spite of its shortcomings.

Did I mention that Erika Blanc was hot?

La Plus Longue Nuit du Diable, or The Devil's Nightmare as it's more commonly known to English speaking audiences, tells the tale of five stranded tourists, the holiday organiser & some woman who all take shelter at the ancestral castle of Baron von Rhoneberg (Jean Servais) somewhere in the rural heart of Germany. The seven travellers are all given a room by Hans the butler & they all bed down for the night. Unfortunately there is an evil & sinister presence within the house that the guests begin to fall victim to...

This Italian Belgium co-production was co-written & directed by Jean Brismee & in my opinion is crap. The script by Brismee & Pierre-Claude Garnier is incredibly slow & is pretty stupid. The character's are really bad in this one, apparently each one is meant to represent one of the seven deadly sins. Well, all I can say is that Brismee & Garnier's writing style must be subtle to say the least as I didn't notice this in any regard apart from the sin of Greed which is well represented. I mean if I want to watch a great film about the seven deadly sins then I'll watch Se7en (1995) & not this obscure, abstract, unfocused, poorly written & badly thought out mess of a film. I didn't like it & the even the twist ending which supposedly ties everything up is hard to grasp & frankly I couldn't be bothered to try & figure it out. There is one funny scene here though, there's a scene when a woman is taking a bath & her lesbian female friend walks in & starts to help her wash & generally fondle her body & her excuse is that 'if I don't help you we'll be late for dinner'! Now that's a chat up line, right? I really have to try that one out at some point when the situation presents itself...

Director Brismee has a great location at his disposal in a fantastic Gothic looking castle so the film has a pretty good atmosphere, unfortunately it doesn't have a good script which would have helped. I found it all rather dull, slow & forgettable with some of the worst, most stiff & unnatural sounding dialogue your likely to hear. There's not much exploitation, not much nudity & no decent blood or gore at all. What's the point?

Technically the film is alright, it is quite well made. Since everyone is dubbed with comedy voices it's hard to determine what the original performances were like, I'll be kind to the script & say that what is said in the English version isn't a direct translation of the original French dialogue.

La Plus Longue Nuit du Diable is total crap in my opinion, the story is slow, goes nowhere fast & is pretty abstract. Did nothing for me at all, one to avoid. Also known as Castle of Death, Nightmare of Terror, Succubus, The Devil Walks at Midnight, The Devil's Longest Night & the misleading Vampire Playgirls as there isn't a single Vampire in it.

Gathering up Horror DVDs to list on Ebay,I spotted a Gothic Horror title starring Erica Blanc that my dad had recently picked up,which led to me getting ready to experience some devilish nightmares.

Berlin 1945:

As bombs fall around them,the wife of Baron von Rhoneberg dies in childbirth.Shortly after his wife dies,Rhoneberg kills their new born baby girl (talk about taking things easy for the viewer!)

Years later:

Planning to visit an erotic island,a group of tourists discover that they have missed the last cruise ship for the day.Searching round for a place to stay,the tourists run into a stranger on the road,who tells them that Rhoneberg may allow them to stay at his castle for the night.Met by Rhoneberg's butler Hans,they are invited in and shown to their bedrooms. Settling down,the tourists meet Rhoneberg over dinner,who decides to treat the guests to some folk tales involving his family,one of which claims that the family have made a deal with the devil,who turns the first Rhoneberg daughters into a Succubus.

View on the film:

Filmed in a real castle,director Jean Brismée and cinematographer André Goeffers lock the group in with tight winding shots,which along with displaying long corridors in the castle,also creates a smooth atmosphere of impending Gothic Horror doom.Whilst the camera goes a bit jumpy for the ghost/demon effects, Brismée makes up for it by treating the Succubus in a lavish manner,by matching the rotting special facial effects with a keen eye to show ever section of the Succubus naked flesh.

Based around the 7 deadly sins,the screenplay by Pierre-Claude Garnier & Patrice Rhomm attempts to make each of the tourist a various sin.Whilst this idea does lead to some nice vicious deaths and a wonderfully jet-black comedic ending,the writers fail to connect any of the tourists to their particular sins,which leads to a long dry build up before the exposure of their original sins. Slithering across the screen, Erika Blanc gives a sizzling performance as Lisa Müller/the Succubus,thanks to Blanc making Lisa's nakedness being a powerful tool for dominance,as Lisa entwines herself around the tourists,and gives them all a devilish night.

This is another one of those Italian made horror films. The Italian horror industry seemed to thrive in the 70's, but somehow never made anything that was really that good. In this little gem, there's a bus load of tourists who end up at some castle in Germany. They are methodically killed by a succubus. Some of them did engage in deadly sins before dying (gluttony, greed, lust, yada yada yada). But she also ended up killing the old guy who as far as I could tell was a jerk but didn't really do anything. All in all, it's pretty lame. There was one lesbian love scene that was kinda cool, but that's about it. The gore wasn't really present, and the plot was sub-par at best.

I recommend only for the true horror enthusiasts.

"La Plus Longue Nuit Du Diable" aka. "La Terrificante Notte Del Demonio" aka. "The Devil's Nightmare" of 1971 is an admittedly cheesy, but overall delicate piece of Eurohorror that no lover of Cult cinema should miss. Jean Brismées film has the overall reputation of being more or less a piece of crap, but while the plot is doubtlessly incoherent, the film profits from sinister characters, a macabre mood, a nice Gothic atmosphere, as well as some gore, sleaze and creepiness, and, last but not least the beautiful Erica Blanc in a genuinely demented role. The film starts out in the final days of Nazi Germany, when Baron Von Rhoneberg (Jean Servais) kills his newborn daughter after baptizing her - for unknown reasons. Two and a half decades later, a bus-load of tourists come to visit the Baron's castle. We learn that, 700 years before, an ancestor of the Baron's had made a pact with the devil, which resulted in every first-born Rhoneberg daughter becoming a Succubus, a female demon in service of the devil. And, apparently, the infanticide committed by the Baron years ago did not stop a devilish creature to come into existence... Erika Blanc is a stunning beauty, also in this film, but she looks creepy as hell as the Succubus. The most intense, creepiest moments in the film are those when she turns into the succubus, especially when she does so for the first time. I do not want to give too much away, but i can assure that these scenes alone make it worth watching the film. Blanc is best known to Horror fans for her roles in Mario Bava's 1966 masterpiece "Kill Baby... Kill!" (aka. "Operazione Paura") and Emilio Miraglia's Gothic Giallo "The Night Evelin Came Out Of The Grave" of 1971. This is another film a lover of European Horror/Exploitation cinema should not miss her in. Apart from Blanc, there are several other beautiful female cast members. Praise also goes to Daniel Emilfork - man, what a CREEPY-looking fellow! One would not want to run into this fellow by night, I can assure. "The Devil's Nightmare" is actually less sleazy than I expected it to be, with a rather small dose of occasional female nudity, sex and lesbianism. However, the film is as macabre as one could possibly hope, with loads of insanity, demented characters and a generous use of bizarre execution/murder devices. And, all the cheese aside, this also has quite a dose of creepiness All said, this is probably not the kind of film that will appeal to those who strictly fall for the "Citizen Kane" type of cinema, but all my fellow fans of demented Eurosmut should have a great time watching this. Highly recommended!

Dull and disjointed - though very sexy at times (and I think the sexiest woman in the film is not Blanc, but that red-haired actress whose name nobody mentions). In fact, the sensuous lesbian scene is the only way the filmmakers could think of to keep you awake during, say, the first 45 minutes of the film. Then the killings begin, but the effects are not that impressive. And (POSSIBLE SPOILER) the film ends with the old "it was all just a dream....or maybe it wasn't" trick. Problem is, you'll probably be asleep by then, so you won't be able to think it over. (*1/2)