The Devil's Messenger (1962)


 It's been awhile since I've seen an anthology film and I was in the mood for one and low and behold, The Devil's Messenger popped up on my feed and I checked it out. Now, I read into the film upon watching the movie and discovered the stories in The Devil's Messenger were taken from an obscure TV show in Sweden called 13 Demon Street and that they shot new footage with Lon Chaney Jr. to pad out the running time and with a crisp run time of 70 minutes, it wastes no time getting into the 3 stories of terror. The movie itself is very low budget and the vhs quality left a lot to be desired but I'm not hear to talk about the quality but the film and stories themselves.


The first story concerns a sex crazed photographer burnt out on chasing the ladies takes a trip to New England for rest. As he takes pictures on his trip, he comes across a woman coming out of a house, proceeds to attack her. The photographer slowly goes nuts when the woman appears on the photograph of the house he took which comes closer and closer, slowly driving him insane.

The second story is about a scientist who discovers a woman in a block of ice from 50,000 years ago and is convinced that they were lovers in a different life.

The final story concerns the boyfriend of the main woman who's in hell with Satan has nightmares about going into the house and blanks out on what happens.

The stories aren't bad as they move at a crisp pace, the acting is so-so and script is okay, a little weak, but not bad. I think this was one of those films that Lon Chaney only did for the money.

I will say that I enjoyed The Devil's Messenger and I do recommend it for bad movie lovers or people who dig anthology films.

I'm Jeff Roman.

2/5

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