A British family move to Canada, one evening the family's daughter can't sleep and tells how she hurt her foot at an elderly neighbours home, and reveals the shocking tale at what the Man had asked her and her friend to do. Produced by Hammer Studio's, this was probably a bit too much for them and was sold off to a 'grind core' company "Omat". Esteemed actor, the great Christopher Lee described the movie as "ahead of it's time" and it certainly was, dealing with a taboo subject rarely dealt with all these years later. The newly arrived family, outsiders by geography and class, find their warnings dismissed, belittled, and even mocked by locals desperate to maintain appearances. "I'm not denying that the old Man didn't get a little fresh with the two girls"
What makes the film still provocative is its blunt portrayal of authority figures—police, courts, neighbours—minimising the accusation’s gravity. The finale is a slightly over the top but quite chilling, but even today, its attitude to "lower classes" and not of "one's with power" feels painfully relevant all these years later giving the film a chilling, grim, resonance.
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