Up at the old mansion they're dying like flies. You can imagine the villagers gossiping. 'I always said there was something odd about that Mr Jason, wandering about the country in that Rolls like he does. But since that nice Miss Maggie came to stay, there bain't been a moment's peace. Bloodcurdling shrieks in the middle of the night and the like. And they do say the house is full of cats. Not natural, I calls it, to 'ave so many cats around. There's that Italian girl, dead in the pool, and 'er a champion swimmer too. That Mr Karl, burnt to a crisp without 'im leavin' so much as a mark on the carpet. That pop star chokin' to death on a bone - and 'im eatin' 'am and paté. And what about that German woman? They do say she lost so much blood it came through the ceiling. Gives a body a bad feelin' in the bones, it does... ' Well you and I, being people of the world, know that Mr Jason has the Power. And it's understandable he wants to hand it on to Maggie: after all, he is 400 years old and beginning to feel the pace. Director Richard Marquand takes all this full tilt. His actors, though, headed by Katharine Ross, have a wary look - not surprising as the story has more holes than poor Hildegarde Neil seems to have pints of blood. A 'Fright-Day Night' film that might make you die laughing.

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