'And Soon The Darkness' (1970) - Robert Fuest.

Gifted genre filmmaker, Robert Fuest's engrossing 'And Soon The Darkness' remains one of the more singular vintage British fright flicks, its continued popularity due in no small to part to an especially engrossing premise! Two attractive female companions, the pragmatic, and matriarchal, Jane (Pamela Franklin) and the openly hedonistic, Cathy (Michele Dotrice) have their bucolic summer cycling tour of rural France's picturesque back roads cruelly interrupted after they become the enticingly nubile targets of a deranged, tourist stalking predator in, Robert Fuest's atmospheric, enjoyably quirky Hitchcockian road thriller 'And Soon The Darkness'. 

Having our perky protagonists anxiety-inducing ordeal hazily bathed in the pristine clarity of daylight is not only inspired, but rather conspicuously lends this dazzling 70s shocker a unique atmosphere that far more conventionally staged terror titles from the same period can't quite match. Idiosyncratic, and frequently unsettling, Robert Fuest's stylish, sun drenched shocker is a genuine classic, with compelling performances, and an especially plucky display of resilience from, Pamela Franklin as the capable heroine, Jane, her terrifying travails heightened by another indelibly catchy score by maestro, Laurie Johnson. The charismatic, Sandor Eles being wonderfully ambivalent as moody, Vespa riding hipster, Paul, but the real glory is the deliciously twisted text by, Brian Clemens and, Terry Nation which excitingly culminates in an exhilaratingly tense climax!