The main plot is a bit confusing – a female cult member has a baby that is a deformed fetus looking demon creature. I’ve read reports that the script was being written up until the last minute, changes made practically on-set.
There are some nice scenes of supernatural spookiness but overall the film is a little slow paced and falls apart at the end. The leader of this cult is, naturally, played by Christopher Lee. The story involves a demon cult that has raised a young girl (Kinski) from birth to become the vessel for their dark lord, Astaroth, that he might walk on the earth as a mortal. But the story apparently strayed so far from writer Dennis Wheatley’s novel that he hated it and refused to let them option any further stories. That’s not to say it is a BAD film – in fact I liked it. How many children did Polanski assault before his ultimate arrest? As Lloyd Kauffman told me in an interview, “In America they give you an Academy Award for being a pedophile.”Īs for TO THE DEVIL A DAUGHTER, it isn’t one of Hammer’s best pictures. That People article reports it very matter of fact, as if they were describing a trip to the grocery store, not a sexual assault by a 43 year old upon a 15 year old.
I’m really amazed at how open the entire Polanski relationship was. He educated me." All part of the con game, which Polanski was good at, manipulating a young child like actors on a set to get what he wanted. "He introduced me to beautiful books, plays, movies. Kinski defended Polanski, saying "He was really a gentleman, not at all like the things I had heard," she continues.
She knew I had good instincts and would not go into drugs or wrong roads." But at age 12 kids don’t have good instincts, and that is what a parent’s job is, to protect them from predators like Polanski. When I was 12, she let me loose like a wild animal. As the father of a 15 year old I can’t understand how her mother allowed these things to occur – undoubtedly the sway of money and glamour of Hollywood was compelling – but that’s YOUR DAUGHTER, man! In a PEOPLE magazine article from 1981 Kinski says, about her mother, “She always trusted me. Undoubtedly Kinski caught his eye in TTDAD, a film similar in theme to Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby. Well documented pedophile Roman Polanski had a romantic relationship with the under aged Kinski, reportedly beginning sometime after To The Devil A Daughter and ending after she starred in the Polanski film TESS. Nastassja has since said she felt exploited in her younger age and rightfully so. This definitely wouldn’t fly in today’s day and age. Nastassja Kinski was only 15 years old at the time she made this film, which is kind of shocking considering there is a full frontal nude scene and sexual content.
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