Thriller | UK | B&W | 69min Cast: Donald Houston, Natasha Parry, Patricia Owens, Melissa Stribling, Esma Cannon, Nora Nicholson, Susan Richmond. The story of a newly-wed wife of a young doctor who goes to live with him in an oppressive old house where various mysterious attempts are made on her life. Gothic thrillers usually see a young woman marry a man and move to a spooky old house where she begins to fear he may kill her. It seems to happen also in this 1952 film in which newlyweds Ann and her doctor husband Robert move onto his family estate. However, the twist is that the danger may not stem from the new husband but from one the three eccentric old aunts who live with them. There’s Aunt Judith, a bespectacled entomologist; the doting Aunt Opal and the tall and severe Aunt Hester. All the aunts seem to adore their nephew and they are friendly enough to Ann, but she senses something is wrong. Robert’s dying mother had anxiously warned her not to go to Crow Hollow and she feels lonely and listless there while Robert is at his surgery in the village. The crows have returned to roost for the first time in decades, and legend has it that they foretell tragedy. Ann is also puzzled by the way in which her husband’s aunts indulge their insolent maid, Willow, and even catches the girl trying on her clothes. Things get stranger still when Ann suffers a series of accidents. A surprisingly effective gothic thriller, well acted, well staged, handsomely photographed, and intelligently scripted.