Diane Shaw is a young woman who attends the funeral of her mother Alice Shaw. One of Alice's old friends, a wealthy woman named Lilith Malone, introduces her to a Satanic cult that Alice was part of before leaving it while Diane was a baby. The cult members have been keeping track of Diane (unbeknownst to her) throughout her childhood and teenage years, and believe her to be their "princess of darkness," insisting she take that role, which Diane rejects, horrified. Several strange things happen to Diane and her friends as the cult tries to take control over her. Diane eventually meets Steve Stone, a charming young man, and as she falls in love with him, feels she can defy the cult and live her own life. On her wedding day, Diane learns, to her shock and horror, that there are sinister conditions for the marriage, making her destiny unavoidable when she finds out that Steve is really the demon prince the cult had arranged her to marry.
Subtract the baby from Rosemary's Baby, transplant those strange, Manhattan cliff‐dwellers to sunny California and you have “The Devil's Daughter,” one of the better made‐for‐TV movies...
Most of these TV films are a waste of time. But this 90‐minute witchcraft thriller provides trenchant suspense. Why? Simply because this occult dip is so well done.[4]
Legacy
Colin Higgins later described the script as "just a job".[5] However producers Edward K. Milkis and Thomas L. Miller enjoyed working with Higgins and commissioned him to write an Alfred Hitchcock style thriller. This became Silver Streak.[6]
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