And Now the Screaming Starts (1973)

Summary: Catherine Fengriffen had joined her husband Charles on his family estate. But she is barely settled in before she is troubled by visions of a disembodied hand and a man whose eyes have been gouged out. Needless to say, nobody else is able to see these visions, even as the people in the household start to die off. As her sanity begins to disappear, Charles brings in a psychologist who digs into the past and comes to find that the Fengriffen line is under a curse. Just as his 18th Century ancestor Henry took his servant’s new wife by force and got her pregnant, so will the ghosts of the house do that to anyone in the Fengriffen line.           Overall: It’s a decent film that tries a little too hard with the effects and dulls an otherwise interesting story. If the character of Charles wasn’t spending so much time fighting the truth, the film might have done better with perhaps his way of combating it. But we basically have a pregnant victim doing all the looking as the husband of the woman looks on fighting the demons but never the curse itself.           Comparison: Braveheart meets The Screaming Skull

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