“Anyone who helps with the washing up can’t be all bad.”
Satanic Panic comes to the Hammer House of Horror in episode 10: ‘Guardian of the Abyss’, which stars Ray Lonnen (‘Harry’s Game’), Rosalyn Landor (‘The Devil Rides Out’) and Paul Darrow (‘Die Another Day’).
Charming antique exporter Michael (Lonnen) picks up a scrying glass at an antiques fair and Allison (Landor), a young woman fleeing a fate as the next sacrifice of devil worshippers led by an evil hypnotist (Darrow), soon after. The cult will do anything to get Allison and the glass back so they can complete a ritual that even Aleister Crowley nearly lost his mind trying, but can Michael’s courage and charisma keep both from their clutches?
The genteel world of antiquing becomes a life or death battle in another excellent episode full of creepy performances, sinister intentions and mind control that leads to a chilling finale.
“I will be revenged!”
A worst nightmare set up ends in a splatter of great gore SFX before the title has even appeared in episode 11: ‘Visitor from the Grave’. All alone in an isolated holiday home one night, Penny is menaced by a man and quite rightly gives him a barrel of her shotgun for his t...
“Don’t worry, old chap. We’ll have you out of here in a jiffy.”
Janet, Martin and their son David are off on their holidays when they decide to pick up a mysterious stranger clad in a yellow raincoat and sou'wester. No sooner is the man out of the storm and inside their car is he trying to tear ...
“What are we to make of such an apocryphal story?”
Brain surgery is probably stressful enough without the patient waking up mid-cerebral fiddle to scream “Leave my soul alone!”, but so begins the final ‘Hammer House of Horror’ episode: ‘The Mark of Satan’.
Edwin is a new mortuary assistant who,...
