Demons of the Mind is a 1972 British horror film, directed by Peter Sykes and starring Gillian Hills, Robert Hardy, Patrick Magee, Michael Hordern and Shane Briant.

[1] The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Demons of the Mind opens with a coach rattling through the forest and closes with torch-wielding villagers descending on the wicked Baron.

But although it is made with style (Peter Sykes proves adept at recreating the oppressive atmosphere of Hammer's earlier films), the content is meagre, and unfortunately the days are past when a string of horror-film clichés (terrified coachmen, beautiful screamers, crimson rose) could stand in lieu of a plot.

It may be a measure of the makers' intentions that the part played by Gillian Hills was originally meant for Marianne Faithfull (former pop idol Paul Jones still plays the male lead); but with the script providing few pointers, the three juveniles manage only shallow performances, while Michael Hordern and Patrick Magee plump for gross overplaying.

"[8] Time Out called the film "an exotic, Wildean horror story, visually as extravagant and tantalising as a decadent painting" that is "badly let down, though, by some grotesque overacting".