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Before he spent decades as Alfred Pennyworth, Michael Gough played one of British horror’s most unsettling villains, and it might be the performance that proves he could do absolutely anything.
In Crucible of Horror, Gough is Walter Eastwood: a domineering, sadistic husband and father who terrorises his family behind closed doors. Here, he demands to know who’s been touching his guns, and in one line, you understand exactly why his wife and daughter have finally decided he has to go…
Directed by Viktors Ritelis in a stripped-back, vérité style, Crucible of Horror (also released as The Corpse) is a tense, unnerving psychological horror also starring Sharon Gurney and BAFTA-winning Yvonne Mitchell, with an unsettling score from John Hotchkis.
Director: Viktors Ritelis
Starring: Michael Gough, Sharon Gurney, Yvonne Mitchell
Score: John Hotchkis
Studio: Hammer