House in the Woods

Ronald Howard - Spencer Rowland
Patricia Roc - Carol Carter
Michael Gough - Geoffrey Carter

Surprisingly tense second-feature from obscure director Maxwell Munden and based on the short story Prelude to Murder by Walter C. Brown. Despite some plot holes, this well-handled thriller never lets up and makes the most of its hauntingly isolated setting.

London couple, novelist Geoff Carter (Michael Gough) and his wife Carol (Patricia Roc) lease a remote country cottage so he can work on his latest novel in peace and quiet, but their eccentric landlord Spencer Howard (Ronald Howard) turns out to be an unstable artist who is suspected of murdering his wife. Now the writer believes the murderous landlord is about to kill his wife too and that real life is mirroring the plot of his new murder novel.