Hot Picks

- There's No Such Thing as Zombies 2020

- Ready for My Close Up 2019

- Welcome 2025

- Catalyst 2025

- #Manhole 2023

- The Haunting of Hollywood 2024

- Delicate Arch 2024

- Dating My Past 2025

- The Family Business 2024

- Into the Gravel Pit 2025

- Thou Shalt Kill 2024

- White Crow 2025

- Enter the Room 2022

- I Feel Fine 2024

- Round the Decay 2025

- The Baby in the Basket 2025

- Feed 2005

- Altered Reality 2024

- My Husband, the Cyborg 2025

- The Company of Thieves 2025

- Do You See Me? 2017

- Good Neighbours 2024

- Bokshi 2025

- Spectrum 2024

- Wrath of Thorn 2025

- Grace Point 2023

- Up Close 2025

- Sunray: Fallen Soldier 2024

- Hemet, or The Landlady Don't Drink Tea 2024

- Werewolf Game 2025

- A Mr. Shelton Adventure: The Case of the Missing Award 2025

- In the Hands of Fate 2025

- Blackwater Lane 2024

- Hunting Daze 2024

- Lizzie Lazarus 2024

- The Twisted Doll 2024

- Dominoes 2025

- Knight Life 2025

- Watch Us Kill 2024

- Death 2024

- The Yorkie Werewolf 2024

- F.L.Y. 2023

- The Damned 2024

- Kuyashii Gonzo: Blood Visions and Chaos Magic 2024

- The Beast Inside 2024

- Street Trash 2024

- Standing on the Shoulders of Kitties - The Bubbles and the Shitrockers Story 2024

- Dead Before They Wake 2025

- DinoGator 2024

- Trivial 2024

- Romancing Sydney 2024

- Gouge Away 2023

- The North Witch 2024

- Talk of the Dead 2016

- A Killer Conversation 2014

- First Impressions Can Kill 2017

- Star Crash 1979

- Strangler of the Swamp 1946

Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense - The Sweet Scent of Death

episode 8

UK 1984
produced by
Roy Skeggs for Hammer/20th Century Fox
directed by Peter Sasdy
starring Dean Stockwell, Shirley Knight, Michael Gothard, Carmen Du Sautoy, Toria Fuller, Robert Lang, Struan Rodger, Alan Gifford
written by Brian Clemens, music by John McCabe

TV-series
Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense

review by
Mike Haberfelner

Quick Links

Abbott & Costello

The Addams Family

Alice in Wonderland

Arsène Lupin

Batman

Bigfoot

Black Emanuelle

Bomba the Jungle Boy

Bowery Boys

Bulldog Drummond

Captain America

Charlie Chan

Cinderella

Deerslayer

Dick Tracy

Dr. Mabuse

Dr. Orloff

Doctor Who

Dracula

Edgar Wallace made in Germany

Elizabeth Bathory

Emmanuelle

Fantomas

Flash Gordon

Frankenstein

Frankie & Annette Beach Party movies

Freddy Krueger

Fu Manchu

Fuzzy

Gamera

Godzilla

Hercules

El Hombre Lobo

Incredible Hulk

Jack the Ripper

James Bond

Jekyll and Hyde

Jerry Cotton

Jungle Jim

Justine

Kekko Kamen

King Kong

Laurel and Hardy

Lemmy Caution

Lobo

Lone Wolf and Cub

Lupin III

Maciste

Marx Brothers

Miss Marple

Mr. Moto

Mister Wong

Mothra

The Munsters

Nick Carter

OSS 117

Phantom of the Opera

Philip Marlowe

Philo Vance

Quatermass

Robin Hood

The Saint

Santa Claus

El Santo

Schoolgirl Report

The Shadow

Sherlock Holmes

Spider-Man

Star Trek

Sukeban Deka

Superman

Tarzan

Three Mesquiteers

Three Musketeers

Three Stooges

Three Supermen

Winnetou

Wizard of Oz

Wolf Man

Wonder Woman

Yojimbo

Zatoichi

Zorro

Available on DVD!

To buy, click on link(s) below and help keep this site afloat (commissions earned)

Always make sure of DVD-compatibility!!!

Related stuff

you might want!!!

(commissions earned)

Ann (Shirley Knight) & her politician husband Greg (Dean Stockwell) move into a big house in the country, & everything seems perfect from day one ... until they meet weird florist Marvin (Michael Gothard), who shows an instant dislike towards Ann, & who seems to be lurking around the house at night, pretty much scaring the shit out of Ann. It is not made any better when Ann remembers where she knows Marvin from of course: 10 years ago she successfully defended the alleged killer of Marvin's girlfiriend in court, which led to Marvin threatening her life back then ...

However, when Ann & Greg go to the police, they can do pretty little, as Ann & Greg don't have any actual proof against Marvin ... & what's more, when doing a little investigating, police inspector Gray (Struan Rodger) comes up with some evidence for Marvin's innocence, yet there seems to be some mysterious woman involved ... but who could that woman be: Greg's weird mother-hen secretary Paula (Toria Fuller), who's secretly in love with him ? Or his personal assistant Suzy (Carmen Du Sautoy), who's just a tad too perfect to be real ? Or ... someone completely else (there actually are no other suspects).

But while the police are closing in on the identity of the mysterious woman (who indeed proves to be one of Greg's co-workers), Greg & Ann are throwing a party where all the 2 suspicious women are present, & especially Paula behaves particularly strange, & several of the guests claim to have seen a man looking like Marvin ...

Later that night, the party's over, the guests are gone: Ann finds her huspband knocked out, & Marvin leaning over him, holding Greg's gun. Ann & Marvin get into a fight over a gun ... when suddenly a second Marvin appears, who proves to be Suzy in disguise ... & she prepares to kill them both, then putting the blame on Marvin (the real one). But as if that wasn't bad enough already, Greg suddenly turns out to be her ally & longtime lover, & the pair of them were just looking for a perfect opportunity to get rid of Ann ... & when they found Marvin, a taylormade suspect, they decided to put their little murder plan into action ... when the police rushes in & arrests them both ... There is no such thing as a perfect crime ...

 

Rather predictable mystery (oh come on, isn't it always the husband & his to-good-to-be-true assistant in this kind of stories) that runs rather low on suspense & takes half an eternity to shift into gear - & in the meantime, suspicion is piled onto Marvin the red herring to asuch an extent that he appears to be the least suspicious of the bunch ...

The series Hammer House of Mystery & Suspense was pretty much the last product Hammer Films ever put out onto the market, but neither this episode nor the series as a whole were on par with Hammer's average product from its heyday.

 

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

Feeling lucky?
Want to
search
any of my partnershops yourself
for more, better results?
(commissions earned)

The links below
will take you
just there!!!

Find Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense - The Sweet Scent of Death
at the amazons ...

USA  amazon.com

Great Britain (a.k.a. the United Kingdom)  amazon.co.uk

Germany (East AND West)  amazon.de

Looking for imports?
Find Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense - The Sweet Scent of Death here ...

Thailand  eThaiCD.com
Your shop for all things Thai


Thanks for watching !!!

 

 

In times of uncertainty of a possible zombie outbreak, a woman has to decide between two men - only one of them's one of the undead.

 

There's No Such Thing as Zombies
starring
Luana Ribeira, Rudy Barrow and Rami Hilmi
special appearances by
Debra Lamb and Lynn Lowry

 

directed by
Eddie Bammeke

written by
Michael Haberfelner

produced by
Michael Haberfelner, Luana Ribeira and Eddie Bammeke

 

now streaming at

Amazon

Amazon UK

Vimeo

 

 

 

Robots and rats,
demons and potholes,
cuddly toys and
shopping mall Santas,
love and death and everything in between,
Tales to Chill
Your Bones to

is all of that.

 

Tales to Chill
Your Bones to
-
a collection of short stories and mini-plays
ranging from the horrific to the darkly humourous,
from the post-apocalyptic
to the weirdly romantic,
tales that will give you a chill and maybe a chuckle, all thought up by
the twisted mind of
screenwriter and film reviewer
Michael Haberfelner.

 

Tales to Chill
Your Bones to

the new anthology by
Michael Haberfelner

 

Out now from
Amazon!!!