Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play British horror directed by Peter Sykes The film follows Zorn (Robert Hardy) a widowed 19th-century Austrian baron who keeps his teenaged son Emil (Shane Briant) & daughter Elizabeth (Gillian Hills) virtual prisoners fearing they may be affected by the same evil curse he believes drove his wife to take her own life Aided by his sister Hilda (Yvonne Mitchell) who treats their house like a prison Zorn keeps Emil & Elizabeth drugged doing all he can to thwart any potential escape attempts Meanwhile as Zorn employs a controversial doctor to cure his children a number of local villagers are mysteriously murdered in the nearby woods Actors Paul Jones Patrick Magee Gillian Hills Robert Hardy Michael Hordern Directors Peter Sykes Writers Christopher Wicking Producers Michael Carreras Frank Godwin Language English Number of discs 1