When a stranger enters a quiet, country town and is seduced by a sensuous married woman he unwittingly finds himself at the centre of a storm of sexual guilt and murder.
Cinematography
Provence locations repurposed as claustrophobic nightmarescape.
Direction
Carreras aping Hitchcock with a shamelessness that's almost admirable.
Director
Michael Carreras
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Carreras shot this between Hammer Frankenstein assignments; the studio needed tax write-offs in France.
The blowtorch murder directly influenced Dario Argento's 'Tenebrae' twenty years later—Italian giallo owes this forgotten curio.
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