Anyone know old horror films?

[drivin_me_nuts]

There was a film I watched when I was a kid. It was a black and white horror film that I think it was made in the 1940's. It featured a man who had a ring that could summon a demon. Whoever possessed the ring would be mangled by said thing that would materialise out of a billowing cloud before your eyes.

(I think) the final scene featured a chap on a train realising he possessed the ring running over railway lines to escape the demon and then being found mangled by railwaymen.

I know it's a long shot, but does anyone have any idea what the movie might be?

[Alex]

Night of the Demon.

http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0050766/

[drivin_me_nuts]

thanks. Spot on!

[Eric Mc]

I thinks "Night of the Demon" is a BRitish film dating from the late 1950s/early 1960s.

[drivin_me_nuts]

Eric Mc said:

I thinks "Night of the Demon" is a BRitish film dating from the late 1950s/early 1960s.

That was the movie - my old noggin took one look at the steam trains and the style of the movie and thought of the 40s.

I recall as a kid in my cousin's house about 7 or 8 watching a late night double bill; night of the demon and the beast with five fingers. Needless to say I did not sleep well that night, especially when my cousin tried to strangle me a la movie!

Good films, black and white adds so much more mystery to suspense films - it lets your imagination run wild.

[Halb]

Night of the Demon is a great film, watched it few years back and was mildly surprised at it's atmosphere.

[welsh blackbird]

drivin_me_nuts said:

Eric Mc said:

I thinks "Night of the Demon" is a BRitish film dating from the late 1950s/early 1960s.

That was the movie - my old noggin took one look at the steam trains and the style of the movie and thought of the 40s.

I recall as a kid in my cousin's house about 7 or 8 watching a late night double bill; night of the demon and the beast with five fingers. Needless to say I did not sleep well that night, especially when my cousin tried to strangle me a la movie!

Good films, black and white adds so much more mystery to suspense films - it lets your imagination run wild.

In the 70's, BBC2 used to show a double bill of horror films on a saturday night; the first was usually in black and white, the second from the likes of Hammer and in colour. I used to stay with a friend to watch them because his family had a colour TV!

Amazing how much scarier films were in those days, compared with the "show everything" films of today.

[drivin_me_nuts]

... there were two others that scared the life out of me for years. One featured a biker gang who committed suicide and at the end were turned into standing stones and the second featured two 'possessed' or satanic type children, one of whom had the trick of opening his cloak and revealing his intestines and associated plumbing sans skin. Not nice for a kid holidaying in the desolates boggy wastelands of North Kent.

[Poledriver]

Night of the demon scared the life out of me when I was young. Saw it again a while ago, things have changed over the years!

[becksW]

The Creeping Flesh - Christopher Lee & Peter Cushing.

Still makes me shudder now just remebering it! and with two of the best actors in old horror films. Still worth a watch now and would beat many of todays horror films.

[shoggoth1]

drivin_me_nuts said:

One featured a biker gang who committed suicide and at the end were turned into standing stones

Sounds like Psychomania.