Diane Shaw is a young woman (played by Belinda Montgomery) who attends the funeral of her mother Alice Shaw. One of Alice's old friends, a wealthy woman named Lilith Malone (Shelley Winters), introduces her to a Satanic cult (Alice was part of this cult 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 (Robert Foxworth), 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.
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]
↑ TV MOVIE REVIEW: Scare Tactics in 'Devils Daughter' Murphy, Mary. Los Angeles Times 9 Jan 1973: f11.
↑ TV: 'Devil's Daughter': Shelley Winters Is Harassed Heroine in A.B.C.'s Witchcraft Thriller Tonight By HOWARD THOMPSON. New York Times 9 Jan 1973: 79.
↑ David Stratton, 'Colin Higgins', Cinema Papers, December 1982 p 534
↑ The Producers: A Varied Bunch Kilday, Gregg. Los Angeles Times 20 Apr 1977: e8.
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