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Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense - Last Video and Testament
episode 2
UK 1984
produced by Roy Skeggs for Hammer/20th Century Fox
directed by Peter Sasdy
starring Deborah Raffin, David Langton, Oliver Tobias, Christopher Scoular, Clifford Rose, Shane Rimmer, Barbara Keogh, Geraldine Gardner, Shevaun Briars, Michael Fleming, Robert Rietty, Norman Mitchell, Kenneth Nelson, Adam Richardson, Wendy Seely, Hugh Dickson, Irene Prador
written by Roy Russell, music by Paul Patterson
TV-series Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Wealthy businessman/electronics wizard Victor Frankham (David Langton)
has a heart condition - but also a young and devoted wife, Selena (Deborah
Raffin) who takes loving care of him - but behind his back, she has an
affair with one of her husband's employees, Derek (Oliver Tobias), and the
two plot Victor's demise by giving him a heart attack. Thing is, Victor
finds that out, so he stages his own death, leaving behind a videotape
that's supposed to be his last will, and that's turning Derek's and
Selena's life into hell, as it loses her control of his company and loses
Derek his job.
But while Derek and Selena try to figure out how to counteract his
testament, Victor returns from the dead, lures them into his computerroom,
locks them in and kills them via soundwaves, one of his ingenious
inventions. And the end shows him dancing on his late wife's grave ...
Nothing great but an ok thriller with quite a cruel (but not all that
explicit) climax. Of course, on closer inspection this episode of Hammer
House of Mystery and Suspense also has its flaws, first and foremost the
fact that way too much is given away way too soon - but a film that ends
with an old man dancing on a grave can't be all bad, can it ?
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