A forbidding French chateau and its surrounding vineyards are the setting for Gothic thrills in this haunting excursion into the occult. Deborah Kerr and David Niven, costarring for the first time since Separate TabIes, lead an exceptional cast (Sharon Tate, DonaId PIeasence, Flora Robson, David Hemmings, Edward Mulhare, Emlyn WiIliams) in a chiIler reminiscent of the later The Wicker Man, in which an innocent outsider to an encIosed world peels back layers of mystery to reveaI a shocking truth. Kerr plays the outsider, the wife of a troubled marquis (Niven), who discovers - perhaps too late - that her husband's ancestraI chateau is home to witches, warIocks, a sinister priest, 12 hooded figures...and terror. |