The Devil's Daughter (1973 film)


The Devil's Daughter is a 1973 American made-for-television horror film starring Shelley Winters, Belinda Montgomery and Robert Foxworth. It originally aired as the ABC Movie of the Week on January 9, 1973.
It was an early screenwriting credit for Colin Higgins.

Plot

Diane is a young woman who attends the funeral of her mother; one of her mother's old friends, a wealthy woman named Lilith, introduces her to a Satanic cult. The cult members have been keeping track of Diane throughout her childhood and teenage years, and believe her to be their "princess of darkness," insisting she take that role, which Diane rejects, horrified. Several strange things happen to Diane and her friends as the cult tries to take control over her. Diane eventually meets Steve, a charming young man, and as she falls in love with him, feels she can defy the cult and live her own life. On her wedding day, Diane learns, to her shock and horror, that there are sinister conditions for the marriage, making her destiny unavoidable when she finds out that Steve is really a demon prince.

Cast

The movie was filmed in Pacific Grove, California and Paramount Studios in Hollywood, California.

Reception

The Los Angeles Times said it "had about as much suspense as the Nixon-McGovern race." The New York Times called it "one of the better made for TV movies."

Legacy

Higgins later described the script as "just a job". However producers Milkis and Miller enjoyed working with Higgins and commissioned him to write a Hitchcock style thriller. This became Silver Streak.