The Nanny (1965)

Before it succumbed to garish mod and technicolour excess in the 70s, the Hammer Film Productions company produced some psychological thrillers like this grotesque but clever, twisty-turny one starring Bette Davis as a no-nonsense Mary Poppins in a household scarred by tragedy - an uneasy peace in the home is shattered when the family's ten-year-old 'bad seed' of a son, Joey, is released from institutionalisation.

★★★★☆

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The Lady Vanishes (1979)

This 1979 Hammer Films remake of the 1938 Hitchcock classic is an unnecessary film greatly inferior to the original but it is camp fun with Cybill Shepherd cast perfectly as the badly behaved heroine who discovers a fellow trans-European train passenger, Miss Froy, has mysteriously disappeared - or perhaps she was never on board at all.

★★★☆☆

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Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)

As a kid I sat up into the early hours secretly watching this grisly 1960s southern gothic horror and the story of traumatised Charlotte with her Lizzie Borden-style childhood gave me the worst nightmares a movie has ever given me! 

★★★★☆

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