Hammer House of Horror

HAMMER HOUSE OF HORROR DOUBLE-BILL:

CHARLIE BOY

Dir. Robert Young GB 1980 52 mins (adv 15)

Leigh Lawson, Angela Bruce, Marius Goring

Charlie Boy is an African voodoo fetish doll with deadly powers, as Graham Elder discovers. Perhaps the goriest episode in Hammer’s TV anthology, it was directed by Fantastiq Guest of Honour Robert Young.

 

 

 

 

 

 

+ THE SILENT SCREAM

Dir. Alan Gibson GB 1980 52 mins (adv 15)

Peter Cushing, Brian Cox, Elaine Donnelly

Ex-con Chuck Spillers is befriended by prison visitor Martin Blueck. The mysterious Mr Blueck keeps exotic animals in his pet shop. But does he also have a plan for Chuck…? Claustrophobic psychological chiller.