
There is a heritage of disorder in our blood.
An unhinged Baron keeps his children as prisoners in the family mansion for fear they will inherit the family illness - insanity!
It's one of Hammer Films' most divisive productions, some laud it as a Gothic horror wit...

Gothic Hammer with muddled story and unsympathetic characters
A Baron in 1835 (Robert Hardy) keeps his adult son & daughter locked-up and drugged because he thinks they're insane, like his dead wife. He hires a dubious doctor known for mesmerism (Patrick Magee)...