Rent Rare Chills (1978)
3.3 of 5 from 58 ratings
0h 53min
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- Synopsis:
- Do you wake at night, hearing sounds under the floorboards? Are ghosts real? Or figments of your imagination? Are you brave enough to walk through a graveyard at night? Two chilling tales of terror to keep you awake at night:
The Fearmakers: The Shadow of Death
Shot on location at Warwick Castle, this spooky tale stars Jack Woolgar as Booth and Barry Stokes as Weaver.
Supernatural: Mrs. Amworth (1978)
A mysterious epidemic is attacking an English village and the inhabitants are gradually being drained of their blood. Francis Urcombe becomes convinced that the disease is the work of a vampire. - Actors:
- Glynis Johns, Derek Francis, John Phillips, Pip Miller, Ronald Russell, Betty Tucker, Hubert Tucker, Rex Holdsworth, Roger Davidson, Paul Hamshire, Jack Woolgar, Barry Stokes
- Directors:
- Alvin Rakoff
- Producers:
- William F. Deneen
- Writers:
- E.F. Benson, Hugh Whitemore
- Aka:
- Rare Chills: A Collection of Rare Spine-Chilling Tales
- Studio:
- Kaleidoscope Home Ent.
- Genres:
- Classics, Horror, Thrillers
- Collections:
- Getting to Know..., Glynis & Angela: Ninetysomething Marvels, Top 10 British Actresses of the 1940s, Top Films
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Sizzling Stakes - Rare Chills review by CH
Filmed in what looks to be the hot summer of 1976 and based upon a decades-old story by E.F. Benson, Mrs Amworth opens with the eponymous Glynis Johns at the wheel of an open-top motor-car as she causes many a collision for which she cannot be directly blamed as she arrives in a village dominated by its church and graveyard.
With a script by Hugh Whitemore, it proves to be all the more topical, for the villagers are going down with a virus which drains them of their energy. Is indeed wildlife to blame? Why do some refuse to have a necessary blood test? Are those who blame it upon gnat bites on the right track?
Made for television, this half-hour yarn has a fair amount of its garish period colour (and appalling taste in men's clothes). And yet, with a bravura performance by Glynis Johns, who appears to have stepped - breast-clinging dresses and all - more from Tennessee Williams than Benson's Mapp and Lucia, it is well worth one's time, as much for the crowded bar-be-que as solitary graveside moments which traverse the centuries.
We need more films made from Benson's supernatural tales (meanwhile be sure not to miss the post-war Dead of Night, part of which derives from him).
The second part of this short two-film disc, Mrs Amworth is the better bet.
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