"Revoltingly violent exploitation B-movie from the repugnant Hammer studios. Apparently the idea of casting a decadent Bette Davis in the central role was supposed to lend an aura of class to the product. As if audiences were stupid enough to be unable to see through that atrocious ploy. Some critics (French, of course) have claimed that the film actually has merit. I suppose they are of that opinion because it has been made in black and white. British New Wave and all that. Yes, well, they eat frogs' legs too. To add insult to injury, the film uses, or perhaps that should be misuses, child acors, which makes the whole sorry endeavour even more unsavoury. Is it any wonder youngsters today go around on killing sprees every Friday night?
Leslie Holy-Water - "How Grand is my Guignol" (1929, Yellow Peril Publishers)
"Revoltingly violent exploitation B-movie from the repugnant Hammer studios. Apparently the idea of casting a decadent Bette Davis in the central role was supposed to lend an aura of class to the product. As if audiences were stupid enough .....
It was a weird period, wasn't it, having all these class actors made to run amok in all these convention-busting horror movies?
