'The Nightcomers' (1971) - Michael Winner.

An appealingly porcine, magisterially malevolent, twice-nightly, not-so sprightly, Marlon Brando is on gripping, charismatic form as the impish, burly manipulator, Peter Quint in versatile director, Michael Winner's sadistically sinister, darkly erotic prequel to Jack Clayton's exemplary supernatural chiller, 'The Innocents'. 'The Nightcomers' luridly examines the intimate, cruel complexities of Quint's increasingly violent lovemaking, his naked carnality being hungrily observed by, Miss Jessel's (Stephanie Beecham) alarmingly precocious wards, the weird, plainly sociopathic, Miles (Christopher Ellis), and the no less mischievous, Flora (Verna Harvey), and it is not long before the pernickety, meddlesome housekeeper, Ms Grose (Thora Hird) anxiously realises that the far from innocent siblings are no longer merely mimicking the domineering Quint's illicit activities but morbidly hatching their very own sinister schemes!

Fulminating with a sensual, appreciably odd atmosphere, 'The Nightcomers' offers adventurous Brit-horror aficionados a compellingly risque exploration of sexual obsession. Fans of talented, blissfully buxom beauty, Stephanie Beacham are 'bound' to thrill at the plenitude of 'ropey' S&M shenanigans abounding within this deliciously perverse, pseudo-Gothic, taboo-tweaking shocker! Not without missteps, 'The Nightcomers' remains an undeniably powerful melodrama that was highly regarded at the time of its initial theatrical release but has, inexplicably, almost completely fallen off the radar. Michael Winner's mesmerizingly macabre melodrama is finally available to reappraise on this handsome-looking, 'spankingly' new Network high definition restoration! If one enjoys bodice rippingly exotic Gothic with additional strings attached then 'The Nightcomers' will hold you tautly under its tantalizingly twisted thrall!