Sharon Tate in Eye of the Devil - Red Rider - Lunatic Fringe

Eye of the Devil - the awesome, beautiful, dreadful power of actress Sharon Tate is on full display within - as the malevolent puppet master in her role as Odile de Caray, menacing Deborah Kerr at every turn. As it was her first major role in a motion picture, she worked very hard for her taskmaster and mentor, director J. Lee Thompson. When interviewed, Thompson described Tate as "tremendously exciting", and possessing of "star projection". No one would have believed that her remaining time with us would be all too short.

Sharon Tate's performance in Eye of the Devil is an amazing sight to behold. It is nothing like any of her subsequent films, and it gave her the opportunity to demonstrate her abilities in the kind of film that may ultimately have been her true calling - the dark thriller. It is difficult to examine her acting in it's sum total without noticing that her comfort, effectiveness, and screen presence were all completely in peak form here.

Music is from the album "As Far as Siam" by Red Rider. The song, "Lunatic Fringe". Essentially a one-hit wonder band, it nonetheless serves here in providing an effective background. The song, inherently unrelated to Sharon Tate or the film Eye of the Devil, is actually political, serving as a warning cry against rising anti-Semitism at the time it was written. In spite of this, there is no political or social meaning to be inferred from this video.