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United Kingdom · 1962
1h 30m
Director Sidney Hayers
Starring Peter Wyngarde, Janet Blair, Colin Gordon, Bill Mitchell
Genre Drama, Horror
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A skeptical college professor discovers that his wife has been practicing magic for years. Like the learned, rational fellow he is, he forces her to destroy all her magical charms and protective devices, but he is unaware that his professional rivals are hexing him, and her protections are necessary to his career and life.
Sidney Hayers shoots the whole thing with an almost Wellesian flourish, and the script (by Charles Beaumont and Richard Matheson) is structured with incredible tightness as the sane, rational outlook of the hero (Wyngarde) is gradually dislocated by the world of madness and dreams.
Chicago Reader by Jonathan Rosenbaum
Director Sidney Hayes can be needlessly rhetorical at times, relying on a campus statue of an eagle to create a sense of menace (the UK title was Night of the Eagle), but this is still eerily effective.
Chicago Tribune by Michael Wilmington
A smart shocker, scripted by Twilight Zone regulars Richard Matheson and Charles Beaumont.
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