A physician discovers that two children are being kept virtually imprisoned in their house by their father. He investigates, and discovers a web of sex, incest and satanic possession.
Robert Hardy
as Zorn
Shane Briant
as Emil
Gillian Hills
as Elizabeth
Yvonne Mitchell
as Hilda
Paul Jones
as Carl Richter
Patrick Magee
as Falkenberg
Kenneth J. Warren
as Klaus
Michael Hordern
as Priest
Robert Brown
as Fischinger
Virginia Wetherell
as Inge
John Chard
There is a heritage of disorder in our blood. An unhinged Baron keeps his children as prisoners in the family mansion for fear they will inherit the family illness - insanity! It's one of Hammer Films' most divisive productions, some laud it as a Gothic horror with art house veneers, others sa...
Wuchak
_**Gothic Hammer with muddled story and unsympathetic characters**_ A Baron in 1835 (Robert Hardy) keeps his adult son & daughter locked-up and drugged because he thinks they're insane, like his dead wife. He hires a dubious doctor known for mesmerism (Patrick Magee) to assist him, along with his...