

Assault
Evil grows wild... nothing else lives very long.
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.
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- Released
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- Language
- English
- rape
- police
- exploitation
- stalker
- woods
- rape victim
- murder
- psychologist
- hospital
- schoolgirl
- voyeur
- murder mystery
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalR19 May 1973
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical1511 Feb 1971
IrelandIE
- Theatrical11 Jul 1971
TürkiyeTR
- Theatrical13 Dec 1971
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Assault was released on 11 February 1971.
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Wuchak
4/20/2025
**_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 satan’s popularity in cinema in 1973-1974 when it finally made it to America. Lesley-Anne Down appears as the main st…
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