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Blood on Satan's Claw

A chill-filled festival of horror!

6.2(181)19711h 37m6

After a landsman in 18th century England discovers a corpse covered in fur buried in a field, the town becomes infected by "the devil's skin," leading the local children to engage in demonic rituals and criminal behavior.

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Status
Released
Budget
$140K
Box office
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Language
English
  • rape
  • sacrifice
  • england
  • village
  • satanism
  • murder
  • devil
  • witchcraft
  • occult
  • mutilation
  • beast
  • folk horror

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United Kingdom

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • PremiereRNew York City, New York14 Apr 1971
  • United KingdomGB

    • Theatrical1828 Jan 1971
  • AustraliaAU

    • Theatrical4 May 1972
  • DenmarkDK

    • Theatrical5 Nov 1973
  • FinlandFI

    • TheatricalK-167 Jul 1972
  • FranceFR

    • Theatrical1219 Jul 1972
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical1630 Jun 1972
  • MexicoMX

    • TheatricalC28 Jun 1973
  • NetherlandsNL

    • Theatrical6 Jun 1974
  • NorwayNO

    • Theatrical1512 Oct 1972
  • South KoreaKR

    • Premiere15Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival30 Jun 2023
  • SpainES

    • TV20 Aug 1998

Frequently asked questions

Blood on Satan's Claw was released on 28 January 1971.

Audience reviews

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  • J

    John Chard

    10/18/2019

    7/10

    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 under demonic possession after a living one eyed skull is unearthed by the local ploughman. Well it's quite a title t…

  • W

    Wuchak

    3/27/2020

    6/10

    ***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 Wymark plays the investigator and Anthony Ainley the minister. The young females include Tamara Ustinov (Rosalind), Linda Ha…

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    FolknHell

    8/25/2026

    6/10

    Few films make their intentions quite as efficiently as *The Blood on Satan's Claw*. Ralph ploughs an apparently ordinary field, turns over something that should have remained underneath it, and finds a decayed skull with a living eye staring back. Rural idyll, meet problem. That image does an enormous amount of work. The evil here is not arriving from somewhere else. It is unearthed. Something buried beneath the …

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