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 ...