Taste of Fear

Penny Appleby, a young woman who uses a wheelchair, arrives at her father's house on the French Riviera, the first time she has seen him in ten years. Instead of her father, she is met by Jane, his new wife, who explains that he has been called away on a sudden business trip. Penny finds the explanation hard to accept, and her unease grows when she glimpses what appears to be her father's body on the grounds, only for any trace of it to vanish before anyone else can see it. A doctor concludes that she is suffering from hallucinations, but the chauffeur Robert becomes her one ally as she tries to work out what has really happened to her father.

Taste of Fear is a British production from Hammer Film Productions, released in 1961 and running eighty-two minutes. It was directed by Seth Holt from a screenplay by Jimmy Sangster, who also produced; it stands as the first of the two films Holt directed, followed by Blood from the Mummy's Tomb in 1971. The cast is led by Susan Strasberg as Penny, with Ronald Lewis as Robert, Ann Todd as Jane Appleby and Christopher Lee as Doctor Pierre Gerrard.

The film holds a rating of 7.4 out of 10 on IMDb from around 6,500 votes, and 7.1 out of 10 on TMDB from a much smaller number of votes. A critics' rating of 8.2 out of 10, based on seven reviews, places the film somewhat higher with critics than with general audiences.