Reply With QuoteSounds very much like AND NOW THE SCREAMING STARTS! (Amicus 1973) to me.
The basic plot.
Prologue set in medieval times? A woodsman/peasant type is geting married. The Lord of the Manor assertings his "Droit de Seigneur" and the woodsman objects. Consequently, the Lord has his way and the woodsman gets his hand chopped off, cursing the lord and his heirs...
The rest of the film has the disembodied hand chasing people around a mansion and terrorising them.
This is very much in the style of Hammer or Amicus, but its definitely not a Hammer film as I have all those and not any of the Amicus that I can find either. But its style would be Hammeresque.
I remember seeing this in early 80's (Back in the good old days when TV would reqularly air these type of films.)
so possibly made in middle 70's to early 80's
This is one of those maddening films that everyone else knows, but I can't remember, but will know it as soon as someone says...
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Sounds very much like AND NOW THE SCREAMING STARTS! (Amicus 1973) to me.
Did it star Ian Ogilvy?
Yes, it is And now the Screaming Starts. starofshonteff
I checked the trailer on youtube and you got itspot on.
(It would be one of the few Amicus I haven't got yet but will correct that very soon)
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And yes DeadlyStranger, upon checking it does have Ian Ogilvy, however my memory hadn't streched far enough to remember that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3_5YyFEzu8
it is that film
from a story by david case called " fengriffen"
good film too!
and it stars the legendry peter cushing ( what more could you want ? )
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. . . in his fetching Helen Hayes wig!Originally Posted by howardmitchell
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From the Rick C newspaper and magazine archive.
And Now the Screaming Starts: Lead picture of double-bill which started life at the Rialto, Coventry Street (off Piccadilly Circus)
Rialto: 14 November - 11 December 1974. General (Rank Release/ North London) 8 December 1974.
Pictured here with one of the more kindly reviews, from the Daily Express.
Case's novel basically starts with the arrival of Peter Cushing's character Dr Pope (who narrates it) and the last hour of the film follows the story quite closely. The first half an hour is stuff made up by Milton Subotksy in order to 'spice up' the story with some killings and to make use of the severed hand prop from Dr Terrors House of Horrors.
And a pair of bright pink tights. One of my earliest memories of the great man.
For anyone whose memory still hasn't been jogged enough, by the way, the woodsman mentioned at the start is none other than Geoffrey Whitehead, in the role of 'Silas, Son Of Silas': though he would later be associated primarily with daft comedies like CHELMSFORD ONE TWO THREE (for some reason, my current software is so gay it won't allow me to post numerals) his dismembered visage here ("la visage sans yeux", as opposed to the other way round) is one of the 70s' most iconic horror images, and one that seems to have stayed with many viewers.
For some reason he had that on for some time in late 1972. He also wore it in Frankenstein and the Monster From Hell and I think he also wore it in an episode of Orson Welles' great mysteries La Grande Breteche (spelt something like that). I assume it was his own 'Regency toupee' as these productions were for different companies and that it was his choice to wear it.. . . in his fetching Helen Hayes wig!
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