Dark Places

Dark Places (1973)

There is more than death waiting for you in dark places.

The heir of a mysterious estate must unveil its secrets and discover its treasures before a scheming doctor and his seductive sister can steal what is rightfully his.

Date of release
1973-05-01
TMDB
5.4 / 10 (38)
Runtime
1h 31m
Genres
Horror
Director
Don Sharp

Casting

Interesting facts

Dark Places is a 1974 British psychological horror film directed by Don Sharp and starring Robert Hardy, Christopher Lee, Joan Collins and Herbert Lom. It was written by Ed Brennan and Joseph Van Winkle.

Production

The film was shot towards the end of 1972 at an old asylum near Uxbridge.

Director Don Sharp was under contract to the Scotia studio at the time, who loaned him out to make this film. In a 1993 interview he said that "apart from one slow sequence" near the beginning, the movie "had some super stuff", but that it was "a very strange production all the way through" in part because producer James Hannah was eccentric.

Christopher Lee told his biographer Robert Pohle: "it was a fascinating, very clever story, a fantasy. It was shot in a house not far from Pinewood Studios: a house empty and abandoned, water dripping down the walls, no proper plumbing, no heating.

The movie was one of a series of horror and psychological thrillers Collins made in the 1970s in England. "I became known by the British press as Queen of the Horror Films — a title I didn't particularly relish," wrote Collins later. "But I was resilient. A survivor. I considered myself lucky to be working so much after such a long period away from the British screen, particularly since I was well into my thirties."

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