[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Endless Night (1972)

Based on the novel by Agatha Christie, Endless Night follows heiress Hayley Mills who falls in love with chauffeur Hywel Bennett and gets married much to the annoyance of her family. The couple have a new home built but it soon becomes apparent the land it was built on is cursed.

Endless Night isn't a bad film, it's just not that thrilling. Directed by Sidney Gilliat who was most well known for the St. Trinians film series, it lacks both suspense and that quirky Britishness so prevalent in genre cinema of the time.

There's a whole bunch of well known faces including Britt Ekland, Peter Bowles, George Sanders, Lois Maxwell and Leo Genn but there's not a lot they can do with a film that really doesn't know what it wants to be - horror, thriller, romance, or least of all an Agatha Christie mystery - and with such lacklustre pacing as well.

Watchable but nowhere near essential. As far as Mills and Bennett go this is no Twisted Nerve.