I'm astonished that so many people rave about this total garbage. Did they see the same film? I agree that it has a mostly decent cast, but the material they are given to work with? I mean, how many clichés do you want? The remote setting, in a village that has no doctor, the local pub where the regulars literally walk out every time the newcomers walk in (and poor Michael Ripper has to say, out loud, the line 'they don't like strangers in these parts'), the inexplicably unfriendly squire, with vivacious daughter and sinister manservant, the standard pretty wife, Jennifer Daniel, who makes her husband, Ray Barrett, promise that he will never leave her alone in their spooky new home, and you know that is exactly what he will do frequently, a reptile monster in a ridiculous latex mask, whose behaviour is never explained coherently, the newcomer's house being utterly ransacked without any discernible reason (and restored in about three minutes), scenes that serve no purpose, and so on, and so on. I don't mind a bit of low-budget horror, but you at least expect that the plot will make some kind of sense. One reviewer referred to the brief part of a murder victim at the start being played by Harold Pinter - I think you'll find that actor is a different David Baron (Pinter's stage name), known for his Dr Who-type performances. Pinter wouldn't have gone anywhere near this drivel.
Review of The Reptile
