Peter Cushing, John Hurt, Alexandra Bastedo

Peter Cushing stars as a former priest who harbors a dark and horrible secret in his attic. The locked room serves as a prison cell for his crazed, cannibalistic adult son, who acquired his savage tas...( read more  read more... )tes in India during his father's missionary work there. Cushing fears that his son will escape to prey upon the effete guests at his rural English estate during a cross-country auto race.

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Directed by: Freddie Francis

Release Date: January 1, 1975

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DVD Release Date: August 26, 2003

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  • August 14, 2008
    Pretty good semi horror/thriller Starring Peter Cushing who lives out on a private estate with just his maid who practices weird rituals and a caretaker whos just plain odd and a secret kept in his attic that secret being his adult son who is crazed and has a thing for human fles...( read more)h he gets just that when a woman who was a passenger in a auto race ends up at the house. slow to get started with a pretty decent payoff is what makes this a 3 star movie

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