Tagline(s):	And Now the Screaming Starts. And the suspense. And the horror. And the drama.
	You've got to hand it to this movie. It's a classic. It's bizarre. It's spine-chilling. It's shocking and still it remains a classic!
	A Technicolor film set in a ghostly gothic manor house, England 1785
	The dead hand that crawls KILLS and LIVES!
	The hand crawls... the hand threatens... the hand LIVES!!
	The dead hand that CRAWLS, KILLS and LIVES!!!
	AND NOW THE SCREAMING STARTS for them and for you!

Nomination Year: 2022

SYNOPSIS: The year is 1795. England. Young Catherine has just married Charles Fengriffen and moves into his castle. She becomes the victim of an old curse that lays on the family. On her wedding night she is raped by a ghost and gets pregnant. What is the family secret that seems to be killing everyone who attempts to reveal it, and what does it have to do with the mysterious woodsman who lives on the grounds?

Smithee Award Nominations

Deus Ex Machina
Manus Ex Machina Ghostly hand stops self-abortion attempt.

Directors

Director	Claim to Fame
Roy Ward Baker	A Hammer director, usually, but does Amicus and others. A Night To Remember, The Monster Club, Asylum, and Two Left Feet were under his direction.

Cast

Actor	Character	Claim to Fame
Peter Cushing	Dr. Pope	One of the kings of B-Movie horror, with too many credits even to mention. Often cast as "wise" characters: doctors, scientists, detectives, etc. Played Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Frankenstein, Van Helsing, you name it. Played "Grand Moff Tarkin" in Star Wars.
Herbert Lom	Henry Fengriffen	Actor in many classics (Spartacus, The Ladykillers) and not-so-classics (The Pink Panther Strikes Again, The Pope Must Diet)...plus, of course, this. Best known for the mad Chief Inspector Dreyfus in the Pink Panther series.
Patrick Magee	Dr. Whittle	Mainly playing villains, he was also Mr. Alexander in A Clockwork Orange, Surgeon Reynolds in Zulu, and Lord Cadogan in Chariots of Fire.
Stephanie Beacham	Catherine Fengriffen	Redheaded bombshell probably best known as Sable Colby on "Dynasty" and "The Colbys." But was in several B-movies as well. Obviously.
Ian Ogilvy	Charles Fengriffen	Drusus in I, Claudius, Chagall in Death Becomes Her, and Edgar Linton in Wuthering Heights. Also Jennings in Puppet Master 5.

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