Synopsis
Taste of Fear (1961) is a black-and-white Hammer thriller you can watch online on iFILM. Wheelchair-bound Penny comes back to her father's villa on the French Riviera after ten years away.
Her father isn't there — stepmother Jane insists he's off on business. Yet on Penny's first night she spots his dead body in a cottage across the grounds, panics, and tumbles wheelchair-first into the pool. By morning the corpse is gone, and Jane gently assures her she imagined the whole thing. Is Penny losing her mind, or is someone working very hard to make her believe she is?
Writer Jimmy Sangster and director Seth Holt built Hammer a thriller in the mold of Les Diaboliques — no vampires, no monsters, just cold suspense and a heroine's slipping grip on reality. Christopher Lee plays against type as a reserved family doctor. A tight, clever scare-piece with a final turn best left unspoiled. Stream Taste of Fear (1961) online on iFILM.
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