Curse of the Demon (1958)

Dana Andrews is John Holden, an American skeptic, in England to help investigate an alleged Satanist. When he gets there, he finds that his research partner has died under mysterious circumstances and it seems he's next. Good thing his dead partner left behind a pretty young niece/daughter/whatever who wants to get to the bottom of uncle's/dad's/whatever's death as badly as Holden does.

Some scenes are creepy and have a nice sense of foreboding -- but there's so much talking and vocal skepticism that some of the scare leaks right out. It's fine, but certainly could have been better. And while most of the special effects work well enough, the demon himself is ripe for parody on MST3K.

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