Review of Devil's Nightmare

Tourists and their bus driver must stay overnight at a château because of travel complications. What they don't know is that a succubus plans to prey on their innermost desires(each character preyed upon represents one of the seven deadly sins..an intriguing ingredient in the film's success)taking their souls from them, leaving the mark of Satan as they perish. The succubus' main desire is the conquest of a man studying to be a priest..if she can win his soul, a man of God, then her goal is a successful one. The succubus is played by the evocative Erika Blanc who only shows her true face(one quite hideous truly representing her evil)when she is about to vanquish her victims. Amonst the victims is the bus driver who likes to gorge on food, a wealthy woman who desires the supposed gold of the château's Baron von Rhoneberg(Jean Servais), a crusty old curmudgeon who thinks he knows it all and never ceases to insult others, etc.

There's no doubt that this film unfortunately suffers from a shoe-string budget, but director Jean Brismée really has a creepy château to provide an eerie sense of dread as each character walks unknowingly unto certain doom. Erika's "ugly make-up" representing her true face is quite creepy and the actress succeeds in her role as this soldier for Satan who relishes taking souls from those who harbor lusts of this world.

The ultimate question is will the "future" Priest be able to survive the advances of the succubus, or fall prey to lascivious wanton fleshly desire?