Well I am a regular, repeated visitor to the World of Hammer. But this time, I felt I had put a wrong movie on. We are faced with a young and arrogant Oliver Reid, drinking alcohol (yes, really!)
It reminds me of so many other films about Oliver Reid being a devious young guy, surreptitiously doing one thing and acting like he's doing another.
I won't give anything away but I will say I found it predictable and more than a little boring! And I LOVE hammer horrors. LOVE THEM!
It's funny, as other reviewers are saying it is the difference in this that makes it great.
Ahem.
I like my Brandy to be sharp, I like my Potatoes to be lightly salted, I like my Hammer Horror to be...well, just, English, sometimes Gothic, always unpredictable. And never taken over by personality. Oliver Reid is a little too large to contain in a small film like this.
