Night of the Demon

An American psychologist, John Holden, travels to London for a conference on parapsychology and learns that the colleague he was due to meet has died in a strange accident. The dead man had been looking into a cult headed by Dr. Julian Karswell, who claims expertise in the occult. Holden is a skeptic and doubts that anything supernatural is at work, but he begins to investigate with the help of the dead man's niece. Karswell warns him that his time is running out, and Holden gradually finds himself doubting the scientific outlook he came to defend.

The film was directed by Jacques Tourneur, working from a screenplay by Charles Bennett and Hal E. Chester, with Frank Bevis as producer. It came seventh among the features Tourneur directed, arriving between Nightfall and The Fearmakers. Dana Andrews plays Holden, Peggy Cummins plays Joanna Harrington, and Niall MacGinnis plays Karswell; Maurice Denham, Athene Seyler and Liam Redmond are also among the twenty credited cast members. The British production runs 96 minutes.

Audiences have received the film well over the years: on TMDB it holds a rating of 7 out of 10 from 321 votes, while a smaller group of 17 critics' reviews gives it 8.2 out of 10, a noticeably warmer response than the general audience score.