Today's travel tip: if you're visiting a sleepy English village and someone uncovers a strange, hairy skull, book the next carriage out of town. THE BLOOD ON SATAN'S CLAW Release Date: January 17th, 1971 BUDGET: £82,000 When a farmer digs up the strange remains of a mysterious creature in a quiet 1700s English village, it awakens an ancient evil that slowly infects the community. Before long, the village's young people fall under the spell of the manipulative Angel Blake, played by Linda Hayden, while the local Judge, Patrick Wymark, races to stop the growing wave of terror. Barry Andrews, Michele Dotrice, and James Hayter round out the cast in this eerie tale of paranoia, witchcraft, and satanic influence.

Directed by Piers Haggard, written by Robert Wynne-Simmons, produced by Malcolm B. Heyworth and Peter L. Andrews, and featuring an unsettling score by Marc Wilkinson, Blood on Satan's Claw has become one of the defining folk horror films, often mentioned alongside The Wicker Man and Witchfinder General.

The movie was filmed across the English countryside, and many of the cult scenes were shot at the ruins of St. James's Church. Fun fact: the script originally started as three separate horror stories before Piers Haggard and Robert Wynne-Simmons combined them into one longer story.

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