After a schoolgirl is raped while taking a short cut through the local woods, and another murdered a few days later, the police are baffled. With the help of a reporter, and against the wishes of a local psychologist, a young schoolteacher uses herself as bait to lure the perpetrator out.

Suzy Kendall
as Julie West

Frank Finlay
as Det. Chief Supt. Velyan

Freddie Jones
as Reporter

James Laurenson
as Greg Lomax

Lesley-Anne Down
as Tessa Hurst

Tony Beckley
as Leslie Sanford

Anthony Ainley
as Mr. Bartell

Dilys Hamlett
as Mrs. Sanford

James Cosmo
as Det. Sgt. Beale

Marianne Stone
as Matron
Wuchak
**_A rapist/murderer lurks in the woods outside a girls’ school near London_** “Assault” (1971) was renamed “In the Devil’s Garden” for its American release. It fits because the only eyewitness in the movie says that the killer looks like the devil. Yet producers also wanted to take advantage of ...