

Blood on Satan's Claw
A chill-filled festival of horror!
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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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
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Blood on Satan's Claw was released on 28 January 1971.
Audience reviews
3- J7/10
John Chard
10/18/2019
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…
- W6/10
Wuchak
3/27/2020
***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…
- F6/10
FolknHell
8/25/2026
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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