
5.189/10
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|89 min
Release Date: 1972-11-05
Overview - 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.
John Chard
5/10
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 say it's simply pretentious tripe! The truth is that it's a bold and ambitious picture, a tricky narra...
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5/10
_**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 assistant (Kenneth J. Warren). Meanwhile there are murders in the local area and a priest meanders ...

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