Review – And Now the Screaming Starts

After that, the yawning gets underway. During the brief bits of this movie when something is actually happening, it’s actually not too bad for a British period piece. The core of the plot is about a curse placed on the descendants of a libertine who raped a peasant’s wife and then cut off the guy’s hand. Unfortunately, the back-story doesn’t come out until well past the midway point. And by then too much screen time had been wasted on long, go-nowhere meanderings throughout the dimly-lit halls of the estate. The cast (Herbert Lom, Patrick Magee, and of course Peter Cushing) is good but could have been used to better effect. Mildly amusing