Dead of Night - The Exorcism (1972)
A couple Racjel and Edmund (Anna Cropper and Edward Petherbridge) who have moved into a new cottage in the countryside invite their friends (Sylvia Kay and Clive Swift) over for dinner on Christmas Eve. It's not long into the meal when things take a turn for worse as they discover they are trapped in the cottage with a vengeful spirit.
This is an excellent fifty minute horror story. Extremely chilling and wonderfully eerie with bizarre occurrences like the wine tasting of blood to Petherbridge and the turkey making them sick. The pay off which is an acting tour de force by Cropper as the possessed Rachel is especially harrowing.
The Exorcism is one of only three surviving episodes along with Return Flight and the equally blood curdling A Woman Sobbing. |