The story of 1971's The Devils is an unpleasant one. Based on Aldous Huxley's book The Devils of Loudun and a play by John Whiting, the film details an episode of alleged demonic possessions and ...

Alamy The Devils centres on 17th Century French priest Father Urbain Grandier (Oliver Reed), who was accused of possessing nuns in the town of Loudun (Credit: Alamy) The Devils follows the fate of ...

We all share the same fate.

One of his best, and most underappreciated, efforts exploring this dynamic comes in his 1952 book The Devils of Loudun, which recounts the real-life events surrounding a case of demonic possession ...

The Devils is based on Aldous Huxley’s 1952 text The Devils of Loudun, concerning a case of supposed mass demonic possession that struck a convent of Catholic nuns in the city of Loudun ...

The film was an adaptation of John Whiting’s play, itself a staging of Aldous Huxley’s The Devils Of Loudun, which novelised real events that took place in the 1630s. The film was butchered by ...

Huxley's "The Devils of Loudun" is staggering in its detail; adapter Whiting's view of the events tends toward the snapshot account. Characters are quickly introduced, and it takes some sorting ...

Alamy The Devils centres on 17th Century French priest Father Urbain Grandier (Oliver Reed), who was accused of possessing nuns in the town of Loudun (Credit: Alamy) The Devils follows the fate of ...