The Blood on Satan's Claw

The accidental unearthing of Satan’s earthly remains causes the children of a 17th-century English village to slowly convert into a coven of devil worshipers.

Cast

Patrick Wymark

as The Judge

Linda Hayden

as Angel Blake

Barry Andrews

as Ralph Gower

Michele Dotrice

as Margaret

Wendy Padbury

as Cathy Vespers

Anthony Ainley

as Reverend Fallowfield

Charlotte Mitchell

as Ellen Vespers

Tamara Ustinov

as Rosalind Barton

Simon Williams

as Peter Edmonton

James Hayter

as Squire Middleton

Reviews

John Chard

Tigon's Talons. Out of Tigon Productions comes The Blood On Satan's Claw. Directed by Piers Haggard (who co-writes with Robert Wynne-Simmons) it stars Patrick Wymark, Linda Hayden, Barry Andrews, Michele Dotrice & Wendy Padbury. Story is set in rural 17th century England and sees a village fall ...

Wuchak

***Creepy, unsettling, unconventional, realistic and artistic, but also tedious*** In the early 1700s, devil worship rears its sinister head in a village in England. Barry Andrews (who looks like Roger Daltrey) plays the young man who initially acquires evidence of the deviltry while Patrick Wyma...

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