Hammer Films
Bray Studios
Berkshire England
1966
One of the films that left an indelible mark on my childhood imagination, this hauntingly lovely and creepily frightening story of class exploitation and colonialism coming home to roost, is rightly seen now as one of the great gems of the Hammer Studio in its heyday. Gilling made other films of note (several of which featured prominent roles for the young Oliver Reed,) but none that managed to combine such visual beauty with so incisive a narrative and entrancing an atmosphere. The cast, especially Diane Clare as Sylvia Forbes, André Morell as her father Sir James, John Carson as Squire Hamilton, Jacqueline Pearce as Alice and Brook Williams as her husband Dr Thompson are all very fine and essential to maintaining that precarious atmosphere of slowly all enveloping dread.
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