This is one more true psychological horror film from Hammer Productions and directed by one of the "home" film makers: Freddie Francis. But it could have been from Terence Fisher or even Val Guest, who could also have done it, or Roy Ward Baker too. It is tense, riveting, and I will say that I had never seen a so close "relation" between Alfred Hitchcock, Hammer and Edgar Poe in the same time. I am sure though, there are others. Oliver Reed is excellent, of course, in a Vincent Price like role, and the photography could not have been better. Don't forget that the director is Freddie Francis, the greatest director of photography of his time.
