A psychologically fragile woman accidentally kills an intruder who is about to hurt her. Her husband buries the body in the woods, but she continues to see the man in various places; this leads her to seek help from a psychic. Worse is to follow as she becomes the victim of a macabre plot.
Production Details
Jack Gill Presents “Hammer House of Horror” Copyright MCMLXXX
Chips Productions Limited. All Rights Reserved
The characters and incidents portrayed and the names used herin are fictitious and any similarity to the name, character or history of any person is entirely co-incidental.
A Jack Gill Presentation for Chips Productions Ltd.
A Cinema Arts International Production in association with Hammer Films for ITC Entertainment – An OCC company.
UK Transmission Date: 22 Nov 1980
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Cast & Crew
Red = Uncredited
Crew | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Hidden | Death | Age | Hammer Credited | Hammer Uncredited | Hammer Total |
Assistant Art Director | Bob Bell | 62 | 21 Mar 1918 | 6 Jun 2009 | 91 | 13 | 13 | ||
Assistant Art Director | Richard Rooker | 36 | 01 Jan 1944 | 01.01.1944 | 80 | 13 | 13 | ||
Assistant Director | Ken Baker | 18 | 18 | ||||||
Camera Operator | Neil Binney | 49 | 01 Jun 1931 | 01.06.1931 | 92 | 17 | 10 | 27 | |
Casting Director | Eileen Garstka | 13 | 13 | ||||||
Continuity | Lorely Farley | 41 | 01 Apr 1939 | 01.04.1939 | 84 | 22 | 22 | ||
Costume Supervisor | Laura Nightingale | 35 | 35 | ||||||
Designer | Carolyn Scott | 23 | 23 | ||||||
Director | Peter Sasdy | 45 | 27 May 1935 | 27.05.1935 | 88 | 6 | 6 | ||
Director of Photography | Frank Watts BSc | 51 | 13 Jun 1929 | 5 Mar 1994 | 64 | 15 | 15 | ||
Dubbing Editor | Brian Tilling | 51 | 1 Jan 1929 | 19 Feb 2011 | 82 | 13 | 13 | ||
Dubbing Editor | Jack Knight | 50 | 9 Aug 1930 | 7 Nov 1993 | 63 | 15 | 15 | ||
Dubbing Editor | Peter Best | 7 | 7 | ||||||
Dubbing Mixer | Otto Snel | 42 | 7 Dec 1937 | 18 Dec 2022 | 85 | 11 | 4 | 15 | |
Editor | Chris Barnes | 42 | 1 Jan 1938 | 5 Jun 2009 | 71 | 21 | 12 | 33 | |
Executive Producer | Brian Lawrence | 60 | 1 Jan 1920 | 1 Jan 2004 | 84 | 25 | 25 | ||
Executive Producer | David Reid | 42 | 01 Mar 1938 | 01.03.1938 | 86 | 13 | 13 | ||
Gaffer | Steve Birtles | 66 | 12 Nov 1914 | 1 Jan 2003 | 88 | 13 | 14 | 27 | |
Hairdresser | Daphne Volmer | 52 | 15 Aug 1928 | 11 Jan 2006 | 77 | 17 | 17 | ||
Make-up | Eddie Knight | 55 | 14 Mar 1925 | 27 Aug 1996 | 71 | 31 | 31 | ||
Music Composer | Marc Wilkinson | 51 | 27 Jul 1929 | 8 Jan 2022 | 92 | 1 | 1 | ||
Music Editor | Marcel Durham | 60 | 21 Jun 1920 | 1 Apr 2000 | 79 | 12 | 12 | ||
Musical Supervisor | Philip Martell | 73 | 6 Oct 1907 | 11 Aug 1993 | 85 | 104 | 1 | 105 | |
Producer | Roy Skeggs | 46 | 1 Apr 1934 | 29 Dec 2018 | 84 | 45 | 1 | 46 | |
Production Assistant | Margaret Nicholas | 13 | 13 | ||||||
Production Assistant | Mike Widd | 12 | 12 | ||||||
Production Manager | Ron Jackson | 45 | 1 Jan 1935 | 1 Jan 1993 | 58 | 34 | 1 | 35 | |
Production Runner | Callum McDougall | 13 | 13 | ||||||
Sound Recordist | John Bramall | 57 | 18 Aug 1923 | 13 Jun 2000 | 76 | 23 | 23 | ||
Special Effects | Ian Scoones | 40 | 20 Feb 1940 | 20 Jan 2010 | 69 | 13 | 9 | 22 | |
Story Editor | Anthony Read | 45 | 21 Apr 1935 | 21 Nov 2015 | 80 | 14 | 14 | ||
Cast | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Hidden | Death | Age | Hammer Credited | Hammer Uncredited | Hammer Total |
Charles | Stanley Lebor | 46 | 24 Sep 1934 | 23 Nov 2014 | 80 | 1 | 1 | ||
Harry | Simon McCorkindale | 28 | 12 Feb 1952 | 14 Oct 2010 | 58 | 1 | 1 | ||
Margaret | Mia Nadasi | 36 | 15 Feb 1944 | 15.02.1944 | 80 | 1 | 1 | ||
Max | Gordon Reid | 41 | 6 Sep 1939 | 26 Nov 2003 | 64 | 1 | 1 | ||
Penny | Kathryn Leigh-Scott | 37 | 26 Jan 1943 | 26.01.1943 | 81 | 1 | 1 | ||
Richard/Gupta | Gareth Thomas | 35 | 12 Feb 1945 | 13 Apr 2016 | 71 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Footnotes
Peter Sasdy also directed Hammer’s early 1970’s horrors, Countess Dracula (1971), Hands of the Ripper (1971) and Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970)