Actors: Barbara Parkins,Richard Todd,Sylvia Syms,Peter Cushing,Barry Morse,Ann Firbank,John Franklyn-Robbins,Britt Ekland,Charlotte Rampling,James Villiers,Megs Jenkins,Herbert Lom,Patrick Magee,Geoffrey Bayldon,Robert Powell
Genre: Year: 1972
Imdb: click here ""Mannikins Of Horror": its 'soul transference' concept tying up to a degree with the main idea of the film, this bizarre installment is taken as far as it can go without crossing the boundary into the ridiculous; the robots on display here are clumsy, unattractive machines but their 'supernatural' connotations (echoes also of the superb "Sweets To The Sweet" story from THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD) certainly make for an effectively nasty climax, and Herbert Lom is persuasive in his small but incredible role; as in THE BEAST MUST DIE (1974), by the end we have to guess the true identity of one of the characters we got to meet during the course of the film - this one is not too difficult perhaps, but the sudden burst of violence that it produces (not to mention an ironic conclusion) gives the whole an unsettling power that is hard to shake off! Now to the disc itself and the accompanying extras: like the other entries in this Collection, we get a very good transfer indeed under the circumstances"
