Naked Evil

Naked Evil is a black-and-white independent 1966 British horror film, produced by Michael F. Johnson, and written and directed by Stanley Goulder. The film stars Basil Dingnam, Anthony Ainley, Richard Coleman and John Ashley Hamilton. It tells a story of voodoo activities in an all-male student hostel in a fictitious English city, where the brilliant resident students are from Jamaica and other countries in the Commonwealth realm. The bizarre events at the hostel and a local neighbourhood are investigated by a detective inspector who, with the help of a priest, comes to realise that he's not dealing with the usual sort of crime. They discover what several of the students already know: that the hostel's elderly caretaker is a Jamaican 'obi man' who is responsible for the evil that has enveloped the hostel. The film is based on the BBC-TV play The Obi by Jon Manchip White. After its UK release, Naked Evil was theatrically released in the US with the black-and-white tinted so that it appeared to be in colour. It was released again as a television movie under the title Exorcism at Midnight, with a modified plot and new full-colour sequences featuring an American cast. Cast Basil Dignam as Jim Benson Anthony Ainley as Dick Alderson Richard Coleman as Inspector Hollis John Ashley Hamilton as Danny (credited as George A. Saunders) Suzanne Neve as Janet Tuttle Olaf Pooley as Father Goodman Carmen Munroe as Beverley (credited as Carmen Monroe) Brylo Forde as Amizan Bari Jonson as Spady Dan Jackson as Lloyd Oscar James as Dupree Ronald Bridges as Wilkins Plot A man hurries to his tenement flat. Inside, he finds an obi - a glass bottle filled with graveyard dirt and feathers - on his kitchen table. He steps back in fright. The obi suddenly falls to the floor. As it smashes, he's thrown through the window, falling to his death. It is but a taste of things to come.