The Ghoul (1975)
Overview
After daring each other to a car race through the misty moorlands, a group of friends come upon a mansion that hides a terrible secret.
Cast
Peter Cushing
Dr. Lawrence
John Hurt
Tom Rawlings
Alexandra Bastedo
Angela
Gwen Watford
Ayah
Veronica Carlson
Daphne Welles Hunter
Don Henderson
The Ghoul
Ian McCulloch
Geoffrey
Stewart Bevan
Billy
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***What evil lurks in the foggy marshes of Land’s End, England?***
In the 1920s, a couple traveling to Land’s End, England, runs out of petrol in the fog wherein the female (Veronica Carlson) encounters a peculiar gardener (John Hurt) and the estate of a former-minister (Peter Cushing), who lives there with his East Indian servant and… something else. Another couple shows up looking for their friends (Ian McCulloch & Alexandra Bastedo). Havoc ensues.
“The Ghoul” (1975) meshes “Psycho” (1960) with “The Shuttered Room” (1967) and Hammer’s "Demons of the Mind" (1972). It was made by a short-lived company that was inspired by Hammer films and utilized many of the same people & locations of that company. It thus has a Hammer vibe and is on par with much of their horror output from the 60s-70s.
Some have called it the British version of “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” (1974), but it’s more toned-down and concentrates on troubled souls and eerie mood corresponding to the foggy marshes of Cornwall, England, and the unspeakable mysteries of India.
The movie runs about 1 hour, 28 minutes (with a shorter version that has several minutes cut), and was shot at Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, England, just west of London.
GRADE: B
