![]() Jennifer’s tragic character was reputed to be a composite of Marilyn Monroe and Carole Landis, both of whom had died of barbiturate poisoning. Eye of the Devil is an imperfect but inventive entry in the horror genre, and very much of its time – its disturbing narrative of secret cults and devil worship anticipates the more popular Rosemary’s Baby (1968) and The Wicker Man (1973), while the casting of Tate and David Hemmings, who would shortly appear in Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow-Up (1966), imbues it with a stylish Youthquake sensibility. Cameraman Erwin Hillier, who had worked with Fritz Lang, Alfred Hitchcock and Michael Powell, uses a stark black-and-white palette to capture Tate’s laconic ice queen, whose only betrayal of pleasure comes when she is whipped with the marquis’s riding crop. ![]() Tate portrays Odile de Caray, a witch conspiring to sacrifice the visiting Marquis du Montfaucon (David Niven). ![]() Eye of the Devil is a bleakly gothic tale set in the French Périgord. Tate’s first credited pictures Eye of the Devil (1966) and Don’t Make Waves (1967) illustrate not only the eclectic range of her initial roles but the trends popular with youth culture of the era – the occult and Californian bohemianism. ![]()
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