Bad Movie Review: The Devil's Mistress

No other woman loved with such passion or killed with such hate no other woman ever loved with such passion or killed with such hate. We review The Devil's Mistress, 1965.
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Summary: A bewitching and beautiful Indian half-caste, Liah, takes her revenge on four ruthless cowboy desperadoes who have gunned down her husband for the sheer joy of killing. Using her enigmatic charm in a way that is fatal to the outlaws, the haunting young woman's vengeance is meted out in a strange, occult manner.
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Written and presented by Robin Bailes @robinbailes
Directed and Edited by Graham Trelfer
DARK CORNERS OF THIS SICK WORLD S14E11
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[@Torgo-and-the-Lucifer-Cat]

Thanks, I think a superior horror western is "curse of the undead", with a vamp gunslinger! ❤

[@mauricedavis2160]

Thank you for the suggestion, saved it for later viewing, really appreciate the suggestion!!!🙏👌❣️

[@timeliebe]

Is that the one where the black-hat gunslinger is a literal vampire?

[@Torgo-and-the-Lucifer-Cat]

@mauricedavis2160 thanks, no spoilers, but there is a heavy underlying ideal of true good vs. Evil, not just horror

[@Torgo-and-the-Lucifer-Cat]

@@timeliebe yes, you can watch it free on yt, although the plot manages to be ambiguous about the undead thing for a bit

[@mauricedavis2160]

@@Torgo-and-the-Lucifer-Cat I expect deeper meanings from such films, I'm really out there when it comes to film, literature, art and music, 62year old Nerd to the nth degree, thank you again!!!🙏✨👌👻❣️

[@TheUluxian]

Answering the question.. What would happen if "Manos, the Hands of Fate" was set in 1870?..🤔

[@johnrudy9404]

Lots of Manos today. A temple to Ba'al.

[@JeffreyDeCristofaro]

"Is he going to talk about jerkin' in the air again!?" 😂 I think I found my new one-liner for Valentine's Day!

[@martinradcliffe4798]

Always a bit surprised there weren't more horror westerns

[@AquamentusLives]

Especially with how popular the genre was for so long.

[@martinradcliffe4798]

@@AquamentusLives Absolutely.

[@bostonrailfan2427]

@@AquamentusLivesthe problem is they didn’t overlap…westerns weren’t big when horror was and vice versa

[@godmaentertainment4375]

When I was a kid. I cut the poster out of the news paper. This is not the movie I imagined...what a poster!!!

[@lensmann4002]

A horror western worth considering is Black Noon 1971. It is a made for TV movie but it fits into the horror western genre.

[@watchwaddle]

6:20 so it’s a prequel to Manos ?

[@johnathonhaney8291]

This plot could work in Appalachia, pretty much any time period you could name after the Europeans settled. I could see working out like a supernatural version of Southern Comfort if done right.

[@workingstiffdiogenes2195]

What other locations? Well if all else fails, there's always....in spaaaaaaace!

[@justinsheppherd1806]

"is that a cabin?" "Maybe, but it looks more like a shack to me" "What if it's an outhouse? Or a lean-to?" "Now you're just being silly"

[@stephen70edwards]

It could be a hut or perhaps a farmhouse. No, I know: it's a ranch house

[@Bigbadwhitecracker]

California contemporary duplex, mate. @@stephen70edwards

[@sgtmajor5700]

He didn't have hands on the cloak.

[@ROMANTIKILLER2]

Poorly executed movie with a pretty cool concept behind it: I think it is one of those cases that could benefit of a sort of remake with some budget.

[@rubberneckinc.8937]

I think the Lord our God needs a better agent. I mean this isn't really even a B movie. There was a moment there, "jerking in the air", where I really became concerned about what kind of film this was. The Classic Euro Horror at a roller disco?

[@skipdonaghue9451]

A moral quandary wrapped up in a dirty blanket and outtakes from out of nowhere.

[@tombates9122]

Someone needs to tell God that his serpents are venomous, not poisonous.

[@DarkCornersReviews]

My understanding is that He does not like being corrected.

[@shannondore]

This reminds me of "I spit on your grave" I wonder if the idea for that came from seeing this movie?

[@julietfischer5056]

Or the makers of that movie had the idea all on their own. Avenging a violent crime is an old trope. _How_ it's avenged differs with the times.

[@dawwe8869]

Eyy

[@jasonscarborough94]

I have three guesses on why all four "heroes" are killed, 1) Some sort of Hayes Code "Bad guys can't win" type situation within the studio. 2) Because the writer and/or director simply wanted a "kill them all" ending. or 3) They died, because they did nothing to rein in the other two.

[@barrietite495]

I'd favour number 3 - evil triumphs when good men do nothing

[@LizardClone2]

6:20 Its the Master. The Devil's Mistress is a Manos prequel

[@johnrudy9404]

But the master woo...woo..nott...approve.

[@diegoferreiro9478]

6:34 Louisa to rescue us from dullness!

[@carlwilkerson9722]

Just a suggested tweak or three for the proposed relocation project: 1 Relocate to Kansas so the characters can spend 30% of the run time arguing over whether Kansas is the West, the Midwest, the Lower Plains, or No Place Like Home. (Also, I'll have a reasonable commute to the location shooting.) 2 Your Science Advisor can play the un-Jesus guy b/c that's the way science works in this here West/Midwest/&c. 3 Have the Dark Lord of Science reappear just after the gang leader departs but before Eye Candy makes the third kill. That way, Dark Lord and Eye Candy can cooperate to kill Young Sprout and set up an extended action scene between Gang Leader and the two supernatural beings, where Gang Leader knows he's totally overmatched but he strategizes his head off like Arnold in "Predator" and ultimately does kill Eye Candy. Dark Lord then says to Gang Leader, "I give up: You totally scare me," and retires to wherever he goes to respawn. Sets up a sequel nicely, and I am sorry about that.

[@ptittannique5621]

6:17 It's The Master! Are Torgo and his giant knees round?

[@incarnate6779]

"I take care of the place while The Master is away!"

[@johnrudy9404]

She is mine..you have all your women. Torgo, you imp.

[@adamcraig7842]

It would be fun to have a movie like this set on an abandoned movie lot. The characters wander from one abandoned set or façade to the next, fighting using discarded props. The cast consist of a film buff who wants to preserve everything on the lot for posterity, a burglar who wants to find stuff to sell off to cover their sister's cancer treatments, a real estate developer who wants to set fire to the lot so that they can buy it for cheap and turn it into a strip mall, a deranged former movie star who wants to live in the lot amid the remnants of their glory days, and a security guard whose job is to keep the rest of them out. Someone or something starts picking them off one at a time in ways that recreate scenes from the movies shot on the lot.

[@bostonrailfan2427]

that hasn’t been made yet? it sounds like a cheap way of doing a slasher movie

[@barrietite495]

One of those elements has kind of already been used. A made for TV movie, "The Phantom of Hollywood" (1974) has Jack Cassidy playing an actor disfigured by an on-set pyrotechnic, living on a backlot when demolition starts. He starts killing people to try and prevent the demolition. It was filmed when the MGM backlot 2 (where many classic musicals were filmed) was actually being demolished

[@karlkarlos3545]

If the movie was clever, she would have made that the guys turn against each other and kill each other off. Concerning your question, I can see this setting working well in old Japan, Onibaba meets Rashomon.

[@suedenim]

Orville Wanzer's first and last movie, but he sounds like an interesting guy, was actually a film school professor when he made this movie.He died a few years ago and he has a detailed obituary online.

[@tuckerbowen4626]

far be it from me to debate this movie's central argument, but i'd argue the old west equivalent of a castle would be a fort

[@RavenHouseMystery]

"She's had a bad day." Understatement of the century. While a bit far-fetched, I've always thought that Ridley Scott's Alien, is essentially a haunted house tale. Travelers come upon a deserted house (spaceship), haunted by dark deeds (pilot's corpse) and the evil follows the travelers when they leave (xenomorph). Ridley Scott even seems to revisit these themes in Prometheus, complete with ghosts (holographic Engineers).

[@julietfischer5056]

The abandoned house/ship/fortress/whatever with a monster or other dark secret is another trope. Plenty of SF movies before it had aliens terrorizing the crew. Pulp fiction magazines were full of stories of varying quality, usually with intrepid white men (and obligatory white women) disturbing things best left alone.

[@MonTube2006]

5:54

[@bostonrailfan2427]

@@julietfischer5056it was literally a rework of The Thing but without the ability to change shape…

[@bostonrailfan2427]

that’s why it’s listed as both a scifi movie and a horror movie

[@michaelsinger4638]

Honestly there’s kind of an interesting premise buried in here somewhere. A plot like this COULD work potentially with better writing and filmmaking.

[@julietfischer5056]

So many bad movies could be better (not necessarily great) with better writing, or more creative use of available resources, or both.

[@andrewgwilliam4831]

I was expecting John Carradine to be the figure they met! 🤣

[@ericalbany]

The budget was too low even for him

[@Bigbadwhitecracker]

Impossible. @@ericalbany

[@ChrisCooling]

It's like a western Manos!

[@seymourskinner2533]

First! My life now has meaning

[@chiefscheider]

Do you live in a cabin?

[@seymourskinner2533]

@@chiefscheider I’m no Hollywood elite with my own cabin.

[@johnrudy9404]

Yep, Carridine needed. Not John, but the other, jerkin it in the air. Ill let myself out. Good night. Try the veal.

[@TheRealNormanBates]

Has anyone thought of a Giallo during the Renaissance? A Roman detective/Private Eye? My big, fat, Greek sacrifice? Considering the Japanese colonized to an extent the western coasts of South America, my brother and I always wondered why no one ever made a movie about the Japanese warriors/cowboys (or gauchos) down in Chile in the 17 and 1800’s.

[@SuperWalshBros]

These both sound super cool

[@tecumsehcristero]

Gauchos are from Argentina not Chile

[@mariakelly90210]

This sounds up for a Steven Wright joke.

[@kaykutcher2103]

​@@mariakelly90210 A three Paddy yarn waiting to happen.

[@bostonrailfan2427]

@@tecumsehcristeroand Japan never colonized the Americas, it was Polynesians…

[@paultapner2769]

Where else would it work? How about the classic euro horror....In Space! If Hammer had made Moon Zero Two as horror rather than western could have been interesting.

[@julietfischer5056]

The plot of that movie wasn't bad, and some of the effects were okay. (Anybody else think of the _Cowboy Bebop_ anime while watching it? That's the sort of mess the Spike and Friends might have run into.)

[@jamesnoland7821]

I'm still vying for a Robin Bailes PopCo figure! WHO'S WITH ME?!!?

[@galloe8933]

Heck, you and Brandon Tenold make some of my favorite bad/classic KZbin slop. I should really give these channels a couple bucks a month. This, Brandon Tenold's channel, and Internet today. If I logged on to KZbin oneday, and those were the only channels I could ever watch again, I wouldn't mind.

[@jamesabernethy7896]

Been a massive fan of Brandon for ages. Off the Shelf Reviews and Oliver Harper are also really good.

[@alandhopewell]

You might enjoy SO BAD IT'S GOOD, which airs on Thursday and Sunday. A guy, his wife, some friends, some high-gravity craft beer, and some movies that are so bad, they're good.

[@TheUluxian]

I'd add Mike Bracken, the Horror Geek into that Trilogy of Evil.. With honorable mentions to the Cinema Snob and Movie Timelines...

[@bostonrailfan2427]

@@TheUluxianditto on Mike, he’s called the Horror Geek for good reason!

[@garrick3727]

We were out scuba diving when we lost our way. Low on air, a friendly dark cloaked octopus offered us shelter in its cave. Flying through space smuggling some droids we lost our way. Low on fuel, a friendly dark cloaked man offered us shelter on his moon. Strolling the hills looking at clouds and flowers, we lost our way. The sun was setting when a friendly dark cloaked vacuum cleaner offered us shelter in his ecodome. Riding our magic schoolbus around the Caribbean islands we lost our way. Low on supplies, a friendly dark cloaked prince offered us shelter on his friend's island.

[@tommydarbe1524]

Wow! Talk about cherry picking scripture and twisting it around to be meaningless to fill a script.

[@Lurvy1963]

Like a bad spaghetti western with no direction or purpose. The Devil's Mistress. A lost effort.

[@ajivins1]

Trecco Bay caravan park (Porthcawl)hasn't had a (film) horror about it.

[@louismendoza-y9l]

Was this the prequel to Manos The Hands Of Fate? Also there was a movie about Jesse James meets Frankenstein's Daughter.

[@tenebrousoul9368]

Would you make a channel with Science Advisor? Please?

[@BigSlimyBlob]

Next week, on "Could Luisa have saved this film"...

[@Dobj319]

In "From Dusk till Dawn" there is a western bar (present day) populated by vampires which at the end of the movie proves to be an ancient Aztec temple.

[@diegoferreiro9478]

Where is the 'spoiler alert' warning?

[@nickmitsialis]

there was an ok series too, that fleshed out the adventures of the Gecko brothers and their vampire acquaintances--with Eiza Gonzalez stepping up to fill Salma Hayak's bikini. Spoiler: the vamps are 'serpents' in the legend not bats.

[@julietfischer5056]

@@diegoferreiro9478- That movie is old enough that it doesn't matter. Either you've seen it, read a plot summary, or neither. IMO, if the material is more than a year old, whining about spoilers is pointless---particularly if those elements have entered popular culture. (BTW, I read _Psycho_ expecting Norman to kill his mother at some point, so finding out she was already dead, and had been for _years_ was a surprise.)

[@bostonrailfan2427]

@@diegoferreiro9478spoiler warning for a popular 28 year old movie? 🤣

[@diegoferreiro9478]

@@julietfischer5056 precisely 'Psycho' is my trauma about spoilers. The movie is from 1960, I was born in 1970 and when I was about to see it on TV (maybe I was 12 or 14 at the time) my cousin told me with all detail how it ended. I was so pissed about that, that I remained spoiler concerned for the rest of my life! And btw, when I saw 'From Dusk Till Dawn' (in due time, I mean at the movie theatre) I was gratefully impressed by its plot twist which I was not aware of at all.

[@EqualOpportunityDestoroya]

Vampire Hunter D is a pretty good western, horror, post- apocalyptic movie.

[@alankohn6709]

This reminds me of a Sondra locke movie I remember watching now it has been a very long time since I saw it but from memory a group of trappers find a pioneer wagon that has been attack the only survivor is Locke's character who they take with them one by one they are killed. Loke is some sort of supernatural entity and the movie ends with her killing the last couple of men and staging a new rescue scene as a new group approaches .

[@herbertkeithmiller]

1:33 you don't know what you're talking about it's obviously a shack. 😅

[@recordallmonsters2139]

I think this sort of eurohorror setup would be effective at sea. Sailors in a life boat picked up by a doomed ghost ship

[@randomity655]

Has that creepy 'Manos: Hand of Fate' vibe to it. A movie most foul, as in the best it is.

[@mariakelly90210]

Hello Robin! EVERYBODY has a bad day!

[@tskmaster3837]

Eurohorror? What it looks like to me is someone took the second half of Coleman Francis' Red Zone Cuba and said "I can do that but be even more ponderous and ham fisted by making the old man and blind daughter immortal "vampires".... and since I'm terrible at dialogue, I'll turn her from blind to mute."

[@godmaentertainment4375]

They should remake bad movies that were a good idea.

[@Madmax-rz5hz]

Those Indians weren't Apache on Leah

[@itowmyhome797]

Thank you

[@MatD1979]

I'm looking forward to a "Hound of the Baskervilles" review.

[@julietfischer5056]

Which one? There are several adaptations.

[@MatD1979]

Hammer@@julietfischer5056

[@dannyspitzer1267]

Looks absolutely awful

[@kali3665]

6:23 "Should we be watching this?" Well, Robin, they ARE dressed! 🤣 Never heard of this film, and it's not even on Wiki. From what I see here, the movie doesn't even comes across as a vampire film from the start, but we've got vampires in full daylight, and I'm pretty sure none are wearing fangs. Lia's cute, though. I'll have to check it out someday.

[@julietfischer5056]

Vampires dying in sunlight is fakelore and a Hollywood shortcut. In folklore, vampires are depowered, and there's even a scene in the novel _Dracula_ where the men come thisclose to getting the Count because it's daylight and he's stuck in human form.

[@VonWenk]

Is Lia a vampire or some sort of sorceress and the guy in the cloak is the devil?

[@kali3665]

@@VonWenk That's what they look like!

[@wilsonhoward9901]

luv Dark Corners

[@AquamentusLives]

Congrats on 80k Dark Corners 🎉

[@DarkCornersReviews]

Looking to 100k

[@markditoro8836]

Saw the title and poster in the thumbnail and at first thought this was a review of The Devil's Partner (1960). But isn't Event Horizon (1997) a Euro-Horror with Derelict Spaceship replacing Gothic Castle?

[@thrashpondopons8348]

In a WWII Setting! See Under: 'The Devil Is Not Mocked'!

[@FailSonOfAnarchy]

The voice that says "And the lord said" sounds like Criswell, and I thought that was going to be the surprising guest narrator. Future events like these will affect you in the future!

[@julietfischer5056]

This is available on Internet Archive and TubiTV. This is the 1965 movie with that title.

[@varanid9]

In your opening, this movie sounded like something I'd really like to see. Boy, did that impulse fizzle out as I continued to watch.

[@Shadowman4710]

I've never even heard of this. I think I was really fortunate... ...until now. 🙃

[@rsacchi100]

Budget could be the reason why neither the sheriff nor the apache show up. The premise can work just about anywhere that's away from civilization. A similar story was probably told just about anywhere as well. It works in space, war, wilderness, sword and sandal, etc. May want to give "The Shadow of Chikara" a look if you haven't already.

[@Torquemada70]

Want to see you do The Sword And The Sorcerer (and other movies that were better in every aspect than this one)

[@mmattson8947]

4:04 It would be traumatizing to see that even if he wasn't talking about hanging.

[@KRhetor]

I actually found this one quite effective and haunting.

[@buzzawuzza3743]

They just didn't have enough money to hire actors to play the sheriff and his posse. Or they just didn't want to spend that money. Which makes sense when you think of how expensive it is to make every scene as murky as these are.

[@alandhopewell]

I've wanted to see this, but I can't find it on Amazon. I DO have THE DEVIL'S PARTNER, which is a sorta-Western; think "small desert town".

[@julietfischer5056]

I think somewhere in the Florida Keys. Not exactly scary, and why did the guy return when he could have stayed away? Sheesh.

[@danddoty3981]

I think pre-world war one in the old west would be a great setting. We could see the old west dying off and the rise of technology that would define the 20th century. Kind of like BIG JAKE with Lovecraft monsters. And BTW , if its made out of stones, it ain;t cabin, its a house.

[@julietfischer5056]

Some of the last 'Wild West' activities were between 1900 and WWI. The region had been parceled out, the Native Americans confined to ever-shrinking reservations (thanks to government and legal shenanigans), and there was no room for the train robbers, bank robbers, bandits, and old-school ranchers and cowboys.

[@danddoty3981]

They were still there, ranchers, cowboys, and bank robbers were still there.@@julietfischer5056

[@charliesage7004]

You should have added a trigger warning.

[@PuncherOfAbs]

The other two stood idly up while it happened so they are just as guilty. It’s like when a good cop stands by while there partner commits atrocities