Assault (also known as The Creepers, U.S. title: In the Devil's Garden)[2] is a 1971 British thriller film directed by Sidney Hayers and starring Suzy Kendall, Frank Finlay, Freddie Jones, and Lesley-Anne Down.

Art teacher Julie West stumbles upon Susan's corpse when she is with some other students and glimpses the killer, who has glowing eyes and demonic appearance.

[6] The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "An unremarkable throwback to those Fifties thrillers whose elements have subsequently been scattered through any number of television dramas, with just a little more gloss and amateur psychologising than before.

The film makes few demands on its actors, though Frank Finlay plays his familiar dour policeman with precision; and the tracking down of the murderer is more a matter of simple mathematics than of any developed logic in either plot or characters. ...

The film's only striking effect is its pummelling method of keeping the psychopath's identity a secret in the early scenes of the rape by casting the camera – and the spectator – in his role.