Taste of Fear (1961) on Netflix
Approved19611h 21mHorrorThriller
Penny Appleby, a wheelchair user, returns to her father's Riviera estate after ten years in Italy. Her stepmother Jane says he is gone, yet Penny keeps seeing his body on the estate.
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- Netflix4.4/5
- IMDb7.4/106,694 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes100%
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Plot summary
Robert, the family chauffeur, drives Penny Appleby to her father's Riviera estate; she uses a wheelchair and has spent the last ten years in Italy with her mother. Penny has never met her stepmother Jane, who greets her with the news that her father was called away on business. Jane cannot say when he will be back or why he left just as Penny was expected. Penny distrusts her. In the night she sees a candle burning beside her father's corpse in the summer house; she falls into the pool calling for help and is pulled out. The summer house is empty when she returns. Jane says the strain of traveling has made her hallucinate, and the family doctor, Gerrard, gives her a sedative.
Cast
- Bernard Browneas Gendarme (uncredited)
- Frederick Rawlingsas Plainclothes Sergeant (uncredited)
- Richard Kleeas Plainclothes Sergeant (uncredited)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Taste of Fear (1961)
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- Jimmy Sangster wrote Taste of Fear for Sidney Box, who assigned him to produce it. After Box had a heart attack his projects were taken over by Peter Rogers; Sangster bought the film back and sold it to Michael Carreras on the condition that he could produce it.
- Taste of Fear was the first of five Hammer thrillers that Jimmy Sangster made, the run continuing with Maniac, Paranoiac, Nightmare and Hysteria.
- Released in the UK and the US, Taste of Fear was a success in both countries and very popular in Europe, becoming one of Hammer's most profitable productions and leading to a cycle of similar psychological thrillers.
