'The Hand of Night' aka 'Beast of Morocco' (1968) - Frederic Goode.

Following the tragic sudden death of his family in a car accident, the melancholic, still grieving widower, Paul (William Sylvester) travels to Morocco, ostensibly to visit an old friend, but his exotic African sojourn fatefully taking a far darker turn when the altogether bizarre characters within Paul's lurid nightmare ultimately prove to be distressingly real, as he becomes ominously drawn into the unsettling, increasingly strange nocturnal realm of the dusky, exotically enticing vampire siren, Marisa (Aliza Gur). Seemingly trapped in a stiflingly sinister waking nightmare, Paul's Moroccan 'trip' finally proves to be uncomfortably literal! 

With a weird, hallucinatory quality that recalls, Maestro, Mario Bava's surrealistic shocker,'Lisa & The Devil', Frederic Goode's deliciously off-key fright flick, 'The Hand of Night' is arguably one of the most unfairly neglected British horror films of the 1960s. Rarely screened on TV, and poorly represented by an insalubrious-looking, bare-bones DVD, Goode's tremendously atmospheric, far-flung supernatural has some credible performances, with an especially memorable performance by the enigmatically eerie, Terence De Marney as dastardly, 'Omar', the impish, gobledygook-spouting manservant to the altogether malign, Marisa and some exceptionally evocative photography from DP, William Jordan, it is high time, 'The Hand of Night' came out of the lost movie shadows and onto a brightly glistering remastered Blu-ray!

'Goode's little seen Moroccan spine chiller is a creepy curates egg, but, if you don't at least give it a try the yolks on you!!!' - Weirdlingwolf.