Not what I expected from Freddie Francis, who at least made some better chillers for Amicus and Hammer (this film is often incorrectly attributed to Hammer). It has a very deliberate color scheme (red is the dominant color), he's trying to do a Jack Cardiff here, but some scenes are horribly overlit, others much too dark. It just kept distracting me from what seemed to be a screenplay with undeveloped potential.
The actors are all quite fine, whenever Lee and Cushing are together in a film, it's worth watching, but unlike Horror of Dracula, Curse of Frankenstein, Dr. Terror's House of Horrors or the similarly slow paced film, The Gorgon, I don't consider it re-watchable.
The actors are all quite fine, whenever Lee and Cushing are together in a film, it's worth watching, but unlike Horror of Dracula, Curse of Frankenstein, Dr. Terror's House of Horrors or the similarly slow paced film, The Gorgon, I don't consider it re-watchable.