

1972·Horror·1h 29m
7.0
★


A physician discovers that two children are being kept virtually imprisoned in their house by their father. He investigates, and discovers a web of sex, incest and satanic possession.
Directed by Peter Sykes
castle
murder
gothic
incest

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Cast

Robert Hardy
Zorn

Shane Briant
Emil

Gillian Hills
Elizabeth

Yvonne Mitchell
Hilda

Paul Jones
Carl Richter

Patrick Magee
Falkenberg

Kenneth J. Warren
Klaus

Michael Hordern
Priest

Robert Brown
Fischinger

Virginia Wetherell
Inge

Barry Stanton
Ernst

Thomas Heathcote
Coachman
Crew

Michael Carreras
Producer
Popular Reviews
10 reviews
Koudelka
6.0★ · 08/31/25

Too much going on really. Or, too many possibilities of what was going on? I don't know.
Too much going on really. Or, too many possibilities of what was going on? I don't know.
Nick
2.0★ · 01/07/25

Pretty atrocious. I could make a better movie. The final five minutes (and that’s a generous approximation) are probably the only minutes of quality in the entire film. It cares nothing for cohesion. Not a single character gets a decent introduction. The editing is lazy and reinforces my disinterest. There is neither intrigue or narrative. The exposition is the only thing that informs the motivation and even that often feels arbitrarily forced. Overall a consistent source of unenjoyment with a silver lining ending.
Pretty atrocious. I could make a better movie. The final five minutes (and that’s a generous approximation) are probably the only minutes of quality in the entire film. It cares nothing for cohesion. Not a single character gets a decent introduction. The editing is lazy and reinforces my disinterest. There is neither intrigue or narrative. The exposition is the only thing that informs the motivation and even that often feels arbitrarily forced. Overall a consistent source of unenjoyment with a silver lining ending.
The
6.0★ · 10/04/21

If all else fails, go big big BIG on the performances and you can take a relatively simple gothic folk horror plot and make it sing. Lurid and heaving but wears out a little between histrionics. The (few) kills bring to mind both Blood And Black Lace and Graduation Day, but way less crazy.
If all else fails, go big big BIG on the performances and you can take a relatively simple gothic folk horror plot and make it sing. Lurid and heaving but wears out a little between histrionics. The (few) kills bring to mind both Blood And Black Lace and Graduation Day, but way less crazy.
Grayson
4.0★ · 01/03/26

yeliza
7.0★ · 12/13/25
