Someone is decimating the ancient Smythe-Webster family of Upper Walden, and the bad blood between the villages of Upper and Lower Walden is renewed with a vengeance. First, young heart-throb actor Larry Smith (alias Laurence Smythe-Webster) dies in an explosion at a publicity event for a new film. House of Satan is based on a book by a local writer, the late Ellis Bell of Lower Walden - a village whose inhabitants are referred to by its Vicar, the Reverend Simon Smythe-Webster, as 'the wease ...[Read Story ]
A sequence featuring Ken Russell was shot but later scrapped. He can still be seen getting off a train car in the railway station segment. In order to save money, copies of uncopyrighted Soviet recordings of Claude Debussy and Alexander Scriabin were made. The mock "Polish folk song" that Sophie (Dorothy Tutin) sings at the posh dinner party was "composed" (improvised) by the actress herself.