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The Devil's Messenger is a film of genre Horror directed by Curt Siodmak released in USA on 1 january 1961 with Lon Chaney, Jr.

The Devil's Messenger (1961)

The Devil's Messenger
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Released in USA 1 january 1961
Length 1h12
Directed by ,    
Genres Horror
Rating47% 2.366232.366232.366232.366232.36623

The Devil's Messenger is a 1961 anthology horror film starring Lon Chaney Jr.

In this feature version of the 1959 Swedish TV series 13 Demon Street, a 50,000-year-old woman is found frozen in an ice field, and a man's death is foretold in dreams.

With the help of his seductive subject, Satanya (Karen Kadler), Satan (Lon Chaney Jr.) attempts to recruit new people to join him in hell. Satanya targets a scientist who discovers a woman frozen in ice, a sex-obsessed photographer and the man who drove her to commit suicide. Combining 3 episodes of the 1959 Swedish television series "13 Demon Street" (which was never broadcast in the USA), this horror film also follows Satan's plan to blow up the planet with a nuclear bomb

Synopsis

Au seuil du Purgatoire, le Diable accueille les nouveaux arrivants. Parmi ceux-là, une jeune suicidée est choisie pour lui servir de messagère auprès des vivants, dont il prend plaisir à rendre la vie "diablement" compliquée. Trois histoires bien distinctes se succèdent alors: un photographe qui voit dans un de ses clichés une femme s'approcher progressivement; un scientifique tombant sous l'emprise d'une femme préhistorique découverte congelée dans la glace; un homme hanté par un cauchemar récurrent, apprenant l'heure exacte de sa mort par les prédictions d'une diseuse de bonne aventure...

Actors

Lon Chaney, Jr.

(Satan)
John Crawford

(Donald Powell)
Ralph Brown

(Charlie)
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