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6 years ago, pop singer Nick Cooper (real life crooner Jack Jones)
abandoned his promising career to move to LA with his wife Gail (Holly
Palance). Now that they are divorced he moves back to London &, witht
he help of his manager Webster (David Doyle) tries to make a comeback.
What he doesn't know of course is that in his London penthouse - which he
avoids to visit due to bad memories - someone has brutally murdered Gail.
& since he doesn't want to stay at his penthouse, Webster has found a
mansion in the country for Nick, where he is looked after by the servant
coulle Mr & Mrs B (Bill Owen, Sheila Keith). However, he prefers to be
looked after by Webster's secretary Linda (Pamela Stephenson), & soon
the two have an affair going on.
What is disquieting Nick though is that in the mansion he repeatedly
hears a child crying at night, even though there is no child in the house,
let alone the neighbourhood. Eventually he also hears a scream at night,
& when he wants to go investigating, he stumbles over a corpse in a
wheelchair in front of hte door to his room. but when he looks again a few
moments later, the corpse is gone ...
But who could be behnd it (always assuming he is not hallucinating)
& behind Gail's death ?
Webster, a womanhater who also likes to crossdress ?
Linda, who seems a bit too keen to get intimate with Nick as to not be
suspicious ?
Mr & Mrs B, who are ... well, a tad weird ?
Or Nick's best friend Harry (Peter Turner), who is a tad too interested
in Nick's affairs ?
Well, not Harry, because he is the next to be killed by the killer. Eventually,
Nick hears more & more voices, that somehow lead him to the cellar,
where he finds Gail's rotting head ... which drives him over the edge
(& can you blame him), & Webster has him (temporarily) committed
to an asylum, where he is receiving (among other things) deep sleep
therapy to calm the nerves. After 14 days, he is a changed man, &
his only worry is that Diane never even called. But when he's back in the
mansion, he is attacked by the killer, who turns out to be ... Mr B,
helped a great deal by his wife. & the Bs want to kill Nick because
they once ahd a daughter who was Nick's greatest fan, but when he married
& gave up his career, she couldn't take it anymore & took her own
life. But when Mr B charges forward to stab Nicki, Nick dodges his blow
& slays his wife instead ... & seeing her die, he turns into a
whimpering fool, & the police soon has him arrested. But what about
Diane ? Alarmed by some knocking signals, Nick finds her walled up in
one of the mansion's secret rooms, together with the B's dead daughter.
But fortunately Diane is stil alive. Even if this mystery is
sometimes way more interested in being mysterious than having an actual,
logical plot, the film as such isn't too bad, a sometimes gruesome,
sometimes downright silly little shocker that keeps things going at a
steady pace & doesn't forget to keep its audience entertained.
However, it lacks the trashy cynism of some of Pete Walkers earlier movies
(especially Frightmare of House
of Whipcord).
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