The Fiend (1972)
It's a Sickness of the Soul!
Led by a sinister minister, a controlling religious sect called the Brethren has taken control of widow Birdy Wemys, sending her unstable son, Kenny, into a spiraling descent into madness and murder. No woman is safe when Kenny's religious mania overpowers him and leads to a rampage of carnage and chaos!
- Date of release
- 1972-04-30
- TMDB
- 5.0 / 10 (20)
- Runtime
- 1h 32m
- Genres
- Horror
- Director
- Robert Hartford-Davis
Casting
- Ann Todd — Birdy Wemys
- Patrick Magee — Minister
- Tony Beckley — Kenny Wemys
- Percy Herbert — Commissionaire Jim Hudson
- Suzanna Leigh — Patricia 'Paddy' Lynch
- David Lodge — CID Inspector
- Ronald Allen — Paul
- Madeleine Hinde — Brigitte Lynch
- Jeannette Wild — Prostitute
- Susanna East — Teenage Girl
- Brenda Kempner — Congregation
- Hani Borelle — Riverside Girl
Interesting facts
The Fiend is a 1972 British horror film produced and directed by Robert Hartford-Davis and starring Ann Todd, Tony Beckley and Patrick Magee. It was written by Brian Comport. The film is set against a background of religious fanaticism and, as with other films directed by Hartford-Davis, includes elements of the sexploitation genre of the early 1970s.
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