Thanks for the memories!

How sad is this?

Excellent, smart action film.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Manila-based art-buyer James Robertson (Tom Selleck) purchases a fugly old painting depicting the burning of three witches in 1592, after which his wife, Chris (Barra Grant), becomes possessed by the spirit of one of the witches and attempts to kill her husband, who just happens to be a descendant of the inquisitor who condemned the satanic trio to death.Could Daughters of Satan have influenced the creators of classic series Magnum, P.I.? Not only does this cheesy Filipino B-movie feature an early starring role for future TV private eye Selleck, but his character drives a red sports car (albeit not a Ferrari), while the name of the film's writer, John C. Higgins, is uncannily similar to that of Magnum's stuffy superior, John Q. Higgins. If all of this is a coincidence, then it's certainly spookier than anything that happens in Daughters of Satan, which completely fails to delivers the chills.Director Hollingsworth Morse worked primarily in television, and his uninspired visuals, coupled with predictable editing, a weak script and cheap special effects, means that Daughters of Satan definitely has the look and feel of a bad TV movie, and as such offers very little in the way of genuine horror. What just about saves the film from being a total waste of time is some good old-fashioned gratuitous nudity (Barra Grant's splendid rack making up for her 'constantly surprised' eyebrows), a reasonably fun chase scene that features a couple of decent stunts, and a welcome cameo from Filipino character actor Vic Diaz, who sports a really strange hairdo.3.5 out of 10, rounded up to 4 for IMDb.

Vic Diaz was so good in The Big Bird Cage that I just had to see him again to see if he was as funny in all his films. He was in 112 films and is considered the jolly evil fat man of Filipino exploitation cinema. It may take a while to track them all down.As a bonus, this is Tom Selleck's (Magnum P.I., Blue Bloods, Jesse Stone series) third film. He even has a mustache then.Jim (Selleck) finds a painting of a witch burning, and the with looks like a dead ringer for his wife Chris (Barra Grant). Suspicious things start occurring. She blurts out the exact date of the burning, and a dog in the painting disappears after she sees it for real. Things just get stranger from there.It's all about revenge for a 16th century crime. Very interesting.

***SPOILERS*** The big break that actor Tom Selleck waited for all these years, since he was a contestant on the "Dating Game" back in 1965, to get as the mind numbed robot-like James Robertson in the bad movie classic "Daugters of Satan". It was his part in the movie that lead Selleck straight, in about eight years hence, to his highly successful role as Magnum PI in the TV cop drama of the same name. Before "Daughters of Satan" Selleck's only significant role in a movies was as one of Mea West's young and hunky man servants in the the 1970 comedy free for all, with Rex Reed and Raquel Welch playing the main character in the movie, "Myra Breckinridge".New York Art Museum curator James Robertson comes across this very unusual painting at a Manila flea market that has one of the people in it, being burned at the stake, looking like a dead ringer for his wife Chris, Barra Grant. As it soon turns out the painting has magical powers in conjuring up the people in it who've been dead and buried for almost 400 years! it takes James, who's not that on the ball, a while to figure this all out but with the help of local head shrinker or psychiatrist Dr. Dungal, Vic Silavan, he finally gets the hang out it. That's not until after Dr. Dangal gets himself killed in a car accident when is car's breaks were tampered with. ***SPOILERS*** The real big secret in the movie has nothing really that much to do with James' old lady Chris and her fellow witches Kitty Duarte & Juana Rios, Tani Gutrie Paraluman, as well as the Devil Dog Nicodemas who were depicted in the painting being burned along with her. It has to do with the poor confused and not too bright James Robertson himself or his great great great great great grand-pappy. It was Grandpa to the sixth or sevent power Robertson**MAJOR SPOILER*** who was in fact responsible for the witches' deaths! And now some 400 years later in 1972 it's payback time and despite having nothing to do with what happened back in Manila in 1592 James is the one to end up paying for his great great great great great grand-pappy's actions!P.S The movie "Daughters of Satan" was released back in the fall of 1972 as a double feature with the also made in the Philippines bad movie horror classic "Superbeast".

Low budget shot-in-the-Phillipines quickie has Tom Selleck being pursued by his suddenly homocidal wife and two other women. Seems that Tom is the descendant of a Spanish Inquisition witch hunter who burned a certain trio of accused women to death and was cursed by the dying women that their spirits would kill all of his descendants. The spirits have possessed the wife and two other women(an American jet-setter and and RN from Manila)to do the deed. Enjoyable pap with future MAGNUM PI star, directed by Hollingsworth Morse, who usually directed TV shows like FAMILY AFFAIR and H.R. PUFNSTUF!It's a long, long way from Living Island!