“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 troubles when he kicks through her French doors and tries to rape her.
When her incredibly unsympathetic husband, Harry, returns he has her scrub the place clean while he buries the body in the woods so they don’t get busted for the murder, or for his unlicensed firearm. But, soon, Penny begins seeing the ghost of the man she killed everywhere and realises that she must find a way to rid herself of his spirit before she loses her mind - whatever the cost. But does a charming fortune teller mean to help or hinder her?
A Poe-esque instalment of ‘Hammer House of Horror’ that makes great use of its setting in an uncomfortable-looking thatched cottage, ‘Visitor from the Grave’ has crazier camerawork and a cooler score than usual and will keep you guessing right up until its incredible ending.
“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,...
