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  • Actors: Christopher Lee, Susan Strasberg
  • Directors: Seth Holt
  • Format: Subtitled, PAL, Black & White, Widescreen, Anamorphic
  • Language: English, French, German, Italian
  • Subtitles: Arabic, Danish, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Norwegian
  • Dubbed: French, German, Italian
  • Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.66:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 12
  • Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 4 Oct. 2010
  • Run Time: 78 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0039C0QO6
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 10,786 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)

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Penny (Susan Strasberg, Picnic) is a wheelchair-bound girl set to visit her father in France for the first time in ten years. When she arrives, she learns that he is away on business. She is left with her stepmother, Jane (Ann Todd, The Paradine Case), and Dr. Gerrard (Christopher Lee, The Lord of the Rings series), a friend of Penny’s father who has come to visit. But when Penny continues to see her father’s corpse around the house, she enlists the help of the family chauffeur, Robert (Ronald Lewis, Mr. Sardonicus), to help solve the mystery.

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I was lucky to watch this movie once on TV. That's right just once, thanks BBC! I don't want to give away too much but it is a brilliant film. If you like the film noir style with good acting, writing and direction and loads of atmosphere THEN BUY IT NOW. You can hardly do better than this. My only (small) nitpick is I wish the film was a little longer. SPOILER ALERT! Don't read the back of the DVD package or the production booklet enclosed until you have watched the movie, as it will reveal a bit too much of the plot.

Excellent movie.
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"Taste of Fear" (or "Scream of Fear" as it was known in the US) is an extremely good, very well-written thriller. Clearly an heir of Alfred Hitchock's Psycho (released a year before), "Taste" benefits from a slow, intense build-up, a very effective climax and an absolutely great cast. Susan Strasberg is a superb, beautiful actress - such a shame that she did most of her career on TV. Her talent surely deserved more than that. Ronald Lewis (whom we had admired in Val Guest's production of "The Full Treatment") is brilliant as the sympathetic family chauffeur. As for Chris Lee, he is his usually grand self - although his French accent leaves a bit to be desired. Jimmy Sangster, a Hammer regular, has written his best script for the company on this occasion, vastly superior to his effort for "The Mummy" or "The Snorkel". Sangster could be a bit lazy with his talent at times: nothing of the kind here, he maintains a tight grip on his story and never lets go. Newbee Seth Holt as director shows great technique and mastery - too bad he died so young. Thoroughly enjoyable film overall.
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This film deserves to be more widely known. Not only does it have a surprising ending but the actors all do a good job. The image of the dead man at the bottom of the swimming pool will stay with me for many years! Ann Todd is well cast and Christopher Lee plays a good guy for a change!
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Taste of Fear is an outstanding film of its kind.Think Alfred Hitchcock and your
half way there.In fact if this had been one of Hitchcocks it would be up there with his best.Christopher Lee is quoted as saying that this film was the best HAMMER FILM that he had ever worked on and that is saying something!
I first saw this film in the early sixties and have searched for it for years,thankfully Columbia Pictures know a good film when they see one and have now released it for all to enjoy (if that`s the right word !)
I wont bore you with the storyline,just buy it and find out for yourself but don`t watch it on your own in the dark.
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God bless the internet and god bless DVD. The reason I say that is because once hidden gems like this film are now being discovered by a bigger audience. Taste Of Fear (AKA:Scream Of Fear) is produced out of that bastion of British horror, Hammer Films, it's directed by Seth Holt (The Nanny), written by Jimmy Sangster (X:The Unknown/The Curse Of Frankenstein) and stars Susan Strasberg, Ronald Lewis, Ann Todd & that cornerstone of Hammer Horror, Christopher Lee.

Shot in moody black & white by Holt and cinematographer Douglas Slocombe, and eerily scored by Clifton Parker, the story sees a young paralysed woman return to her family home in France to visit her father who she hasn't seen for years; and to finally meet her new step-mother. Upon arrival she is informed that her father has had to go away on business, which becomes a problem as she starts to see his dead body, first in the summer house, then in the lounge! The mind can play tricks, especially to the traumatised, but she's convinced that what she is seeing is real. Even the family doctor (Lee in a suitably suspicious role) thinks there are mental issues here. Undaunted she enlists the help of friendly chauffeur Bob and sets about unravelling either her mind, or the mystery that lurks at the Appleby home.

The film opens with an attention grabbing sequence as police drag a lake for a body, from there on the film becomes essentially a four character piece. Now it's been said in some quarters that this structure telegraphs where the film is going to end up. There's a tiny bit of truth in that but there are at least three twisty kickers here to steer this far away from charges of predictability. In fact the finale has a double whammy that is most rewarding.
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Taste Of Fear (a.k.a. Scream Of Fear) is an early-1960s, edge-of-the-seat Hammer thriller scripted by Jimmy Sangster and directed by Seth Holt. Very much in the style of Henri-Georges Clouzot's "Les Diaboliques" and other Hammer thrillers such as "Paranoiac" and "Crescendo", the let's try to drive someone mad-type plot has more twists and turns than a rattlesnake on a helter-skelter ride.

To go into too much detail about the plot would spoil the film for those who have never seen it and I want to keep this review fairly short as well. So, to summarise the basic plot, a young, wheelchair-bound woman called Penny (Susan Strasberg) returns to her father's home on the French Riviera to see her father again for the first time in ten years. When she arrives at the house, she is welcomed by her stepmother, Jane (Ann Todd). Her father is not there and is supposedly away on business.

During the night, Penny hears a strange noise and makes her way down to the summer house where she finds the corpse of her father sitting in a chair. As she flees the scene in horror, she has an accident with her wheelchair and ends up in the pool. She is rescued by Bob The Builder, sorry - I mean Bob The Chauffeur (Ronald Lewis), and is tended to by a visitor called Doctor Gerrard (Christopher Lee). When she tells everyone what she saw, they do not believe her of course and when they return to the summer house the corpse is no longer there.

Then, later on, Penny sees her father's corpse again - this time in the study. Is Penny just imagining all of this? Is her father really dead or is there some kind of conspiracy going on to drive Penny insane?
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