Amicus Strikes!

 

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AND NOW THE SCREAMING STARTS! -1973-Catherine (Stephanie Beacham) goes to live in castle Fenn Griffin with her newlywed husband Sir Charles (Ian Ogilvy) and almost immediately is terrorized by a severed hand that seems to come out of a painting of one of his ancestors. She also sees visions of an eyeless apparition missing a hand. She meets Silas (Geoffrey Whitehead), a woodsman. She asks the family lawyer (Guy Rolfe) for help but he's killed. Charles is apparently hiding something. Neither of them seems so happy when Doctor Whittle (Patrick Magee) tells them Catherine is pregnant. When their maid decides to spill the beans to Catherine, she's thrown down the stairs. When her aunt insists Catherine leaves, the hand strangles her. Everything seems to point to Silas but he seems to have done nothing. When Catherine really begins to act hysterical, Dr. Pope (Peter Cushing) is called in. It seems he shouldn't have bothered. No one will help him. When Whittle decides to tell Pope something he's strangled by the invisible hand. Eventually Charles tells all. A former lord (Herbert Lom) raped a bride and cut off the groom's hand (Silas' ancestor). The ancestor cursed him. 

This well-made but often forgotten Amicus production was more influenced by "Rosemary's Baby" than anything else. Director Roy Ward Baker made VAULT OF HORROR the same year.

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