From father to son a tradition of terrora forbidding french chateau and its surrounding vineyards are the setting for gothic thrills in this haunting excursion into the occult'. '.strtoupper('d')eborah kerr and david niven, costarring for the first time since separate tables, lead an exceptional cast sharon tate, donald pleasence, flora robson, david hemmings, edward mulhare, emlyn williams in a chiller reminiscent of the later the wicker man 1973, in which an innocent outsider to an enclosed world peels back layers of mystery to reveal a shocking truth'. '.strtoupper('k')err plays the outsider, the wife of a troubled marquis niven, who discovers perhaps to late that her husband's ancestral chateau is home to witches, warlocks, a sinister priest, 12 hooded figures...and terror.