John Gilling shot this supernatural thriller after wrapping
Plague of the Zombies, using that film's locale and even some of the same sets. Noel Willman stars as the mysterious Dr. Franklyn, a reclusive nobleman with a beautiful daughter (Jacqueline Pearce) he keeps hidden away--and for good reason. His daughter carries a curse, the result of his forays into forbidden knowledge in the Far East, and transforms into an uncontrollable, snakelike creature who preys upon the local villagers. Gilling's spooky, mist-enshrouded countryside and foreboding interior atmosphere is undercut somewhat by Pearce's unconvincing makeup, but her freakish appearance is still startling and the gruesome corpses she leaves in her wake are genuinely unsettling. The film has been remastered from the original 35mm negatives in the Hammer vaults and letterboxed to its original aspect ratio.
--Sean Axmaker
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Customer Review: Another Good film from Hammer
A soldier and his wife arrive at the village of his recently deceased brother. His plans to live in his brother's cottage are met with warnings from the locals that bad things have been happening in the area including mysterious deaths. The quest to discover what is killing the locals then takes place as weird visits from the occupants of the nearby castle begin. It turns out that the curse of the snake people has been placed upon the daughter of the doctor living in the castle causing her to turn into a reptile periodically and bite people during the process. The storyline is somewhat cheesy but it is carried out with straight-faced conviction by a good cast of actors. This is vintage Hammer horror, the acting is solid, the screenplay is coherent, the scenery and sets are attractive and the special effects come off leaving the film's dignity intact. As others have noted, this movie was made on some of the same sets and with a very similar cast to the "plague of zombies" film. Both movies make excellent entertainment.
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