An American is invited to stay at a family estate in the country, and meets up with the most bizarre family in accepting. Each of the family is required to return and stay at the house each night or forfeit their share of the family fortune. Unfortunately during the night someone starts murdering them one by one.A match up between William Castle and Hammer should have been a match made in heaven. Instead we get a watered down version of both. Instead of thrills and chills we have only mild and slapstick humour. Robert Morley dominates the screen stuffed full with the cream of comedy actors of the time, including Joyce Grenfell and Fenella Fielding, but to no avail. A diverting little film but in truth a horror-comedy, with little of either.
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