A wheel-chair bound cripple(a horse fell on top of her in a riding accident)comes to live with her father in France supposedly at his request. When Penny(Susan Strasberg)gets to the home of her father(her parents separated with Penny living with her mom in Italy)she's told by her step-mother Jane(Ann Todd)that he's away on business. The chauffeur Robert(Ronald Lewis)mentions in a slip that her dad was ill. Then, Penny begins seeing her father's dead corpse in a several rooms, but when others arrive at her screams, he's nowhere to be found. Through the assistance of Robert, there are signs that something isn't quite kosher about this whole situation. A Doctor Gerrard(Christopher Lee), said to have been a dear friend of her father's, is spending dinner evenings with Jane as he questions the idea that Penny might have mental health issues possibly stemming from her crippling accident. Certainly the first time she sees her father's corpse(in the summer room where he sat in a chair with a lit candle introducing his ominous figure to us)as she wheels so close to the dirty pool she falls in, with no one finding any man in there, Doc Gerrard does have at least a point it seems. The film, at first in seems, asks the question..is Gerrard and Jane secretly behind the murder of Penny's father and hiding the corpse somewhere or is Penny really going crazy? Are Gerrard and Jane purposely trying to frighten Penny into madness so she'll be locked up with them receiving the inheritance?
Trust me when I say that this film is slick and tricky..if you believe you've got the answers, think again! Things and people are not always what they might appear. Sometimes you come across a film that stuns the living daylights out of you..SCREAM OF FEAR is such a movie. The films has multiple twists that keep you on alert. Fantastic underrated Hammer film.
Trust me when I say that this film is slick and tricky..if you believe you've got the answers, think again! Things and people are not always what they might appear. Sometimes you come across a film that stuns the living daylights out of you..SCREAM OF FEAR is such a movie. The films has multiple twists that keep you on alert. Fantastic underrated Hammer film.