Hammer House of Horror: The Mark of Satan (1980)

Country of Origin: UK
Date(s) of Broadcast: 6th December 1980
Running Times: 50 mins
Format: colour
Sound:

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: A Jack Gill Presentation for Chips Productions Ltd / Cinema Arts International / Hammer Films for ITC Films International
Executive Producers: Brian Lawrence, David Reid
Producer: Roy Skeggs
Production Manager: Ron Jackson

SCRIPT
Script: Don Shaw
Story Editor: Anthony Read

DIRECTION
Director: Don Leaver

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Norman Warwick

MUSIC
Music: Paul Patterson
Music Supervisor: Philip Martell

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Ian Scoones

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Designer: Carolyn Scott

LOCATIONS
Locations: Hampden House, Great Hampden, England, UK

CAST
Peter McEnery (Edwin)
Georgina Hale (Stella)
Emrys James (Dr Harris)
Anthony Brown (priest)
Conrad Phillips (Dr Manders)
Peter Birrel (Markham)
James Duggan (Simpson)
Andrew Bradford (Steve)
James Curran (Pritchard)
Peter Cartwright (surgeon)
Annie Dyson (Mrs Rord)
Crispin Gillbard (policeman)

PLOT SUMMARY

Samuel Holt drills a hole in his head, claiming that he needs to release a disease that he believes has been planted there by the devil who has possessed him. Morgue attendant Edwin Rore numbers Holt's body "9", then finds the number turning up all the time in his every day life - he wins £9 in a sweepstake, and is stitching wounds on a corpse at a rate of 9 stitches every three inches when he pricks his finger - has he contracted Holt's mysterious disease?

UK
Television Distributor: ITV

UK
Rating: 15

1980
December
6: UK - television broadcast (on ITV)

KEYWORDS

possession; morgues; diseeases; the devil