Nightmare (1964)
Superb Hammer thriller that for long periods plays like a classic old dark house chiller with one or two tasty twists in store.
Freddie Francis' direction is exquisite and the cinematography sublime with a suitably creepy score that combine to give the film a rich,eerie atmosphere.
Slightly reminiscent in plot of Les Diaboliques (1955), Nightmare grabs hold of you with icy hands and never let's go thanks partly to a terrific turn by newcomer Jennie Linden as a young woman plagued by nightmares that her mother stabbed her father to death, and each night she revisits said nightmare as reality and dreams collide as a ghostly figure stalks the shadowy house.
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