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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>''Nothing but the Night'' (1972), AKA ''The Resurrection Syndicate'', ''Devil Night'', ''The Devil's Undead'', ''Fatal Enigma'', ''Castle of the Living Dead''<br />
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==Summary==<br />
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"Where science and the occult clash! This nightmare has already killed five people, and for every death, there was a child. Now it's your nightmare to live!" Police detectives investigating a series of strange deaths of beneficiaries of a strange trust fund begin to suspect something strange about the children who stand to gain from the deaths.<br />
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==Details==<br />
[[File:Nothingbutthenight 1972film.png|thumb|200px|right|Promotional images for ''Nothing but the Night (1972 film)'' AKA ''The Resurrection Syndicate''...]]<br />
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* Release Date: 1972<br />
* Country/Language: UK, English<br />
* Genres/Technical: Horror, Mystery, Crime<br />
* Setting: [[1970s]] [[UK]]<br />
* Runtime: 1 hr 30 min <br />
* Starring: [[Christopher Lee]], [[Peter Cushing]]<br />
* Director: Peter Sasdy<br />
* Writer: Brian Hayles (screenplay), John Blackburn (novel) <br />
* Producer/Production Co: Charlemagne Productions<br />
* View Trailer: ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgbN5OvzaOg link])<br />
* Wikipedia: ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_but_the_Night link])<br />
* IMDB Page: ([http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069024/ link])<br />
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==Ratings==<br />
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Review Links:<br />
* Fred Anderson at Ninja Dixon ([http://ninjadixon.blogspot.com.au/2011/11/nothing-but-night-1973.html link])<br />
* Graeme Clark at The Spinning Image ([http://www.thespinningimage.co.uk/cultfilms/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=7005 link]) (5/10 Stars)<br />
* Burl Cummings at Ha ha, it's Burl! ([http://hiitsburl.blogspot.com.au/2016/02/burl-reviews-nothing-but-night-1973.html link])<br />
* Michael Den Boer at 10,000 Bullets ([http://10kbullets.com/reviews/n/nothing-but-the-night-katrinas-nightmare-theater/ link])<br />
* Brett Gallmann at Oh The Horror! ([http://www.oh-the-horror.com/page.php?id=990 link])<br />
* Mark Hodgson at Black Hole Reviews ([http://blackholereviews.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/nothing-but-night-1973-cushing-and-lee.html link])<br />
* Richard Scheib at The Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Film Review ([http://moria.co.nz/horror/nothing-but-the-night-1972.htm link]) (2/5 Stars)<br />
* Nathaniel Thomson at Mondo Digital ([http://www.mondo-digital.com/nothingnight.html link])<br />
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Police detectives investigating a series of strange deaths of beneficiaries of a strange trust fund begin to suspect something strange about the children who stand to gain from the deaths: the aging adults are actually a cult using weird science to steal the children's youthful bodies through a thought transfer process that abandons the children's minds into the elderly bodies, which are then sacrificed in many gruesome ways. <br />
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==Notes==<br />
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