With this film, Hammer attempt to break out of the Monster theme which had been so successful for them, the results are mixed. It all starts well enough with some kind of romance flashback but basically it's all downhill from there. The premise seems to be that a taste for strangling the locals runs in the family, in an effort to put a stop to this, the father figure has imprisoned his son and daughter and hired a psychologist to come and sort them all out. What happens from there on in is a little hard to say, characters randomly appear and disappear, the plot goes nowhere. In the end this meandering is put to bed by that old Hammer standard of the torch bearing band of angry locals. The movie has all the trappings of a good Hammer film, a little gore, some nudity, odd facial hair, but it just never comes together. In the end it commits the ultimate sin for a horror movie, it's just a little bit boring.
Review of Demons of the Mind
