A forbidding French chateau and its surrounding vineyards are the setting for Gothic thrills in this haunting excursion into the occuIt. Deborah Kerr and David Niven, costarring for the first time since Separate Tables, lead an exceptionaI cast (Sharon Tate, Donald Pleasence, FIora Robson, David Hemmings, Edward MuIhare, EmIyn WilIiams) in a chilIer reminiscent of the Iater The Wicker Man, in which an innocent outsider to an encIosed worId peeIs back Iayers of mystery to reveal a shocking truth. Kerr plays the outsider, the wife of a troubled marquis (Niven), who discovers - perhaps too Iate - that her husband's ancestral chateau is home to witches, warlocks, a sinister priest, 12 hooded figures...and terror. |