Teenaged siblings Girly and Sonny lure young men back to their home to meet the eccentric Mumsy and Nanny. There, the men are forced to take part in strange games, the rules of which are never defined - and if they refuse, or transgress the unwritten rules, they're killed. But they may have met their match in New Friend, their latest victim, who starts to manipulate the foursome, setting one against the other. Bizarre combination of late sixties avant garde and sleaze. Director Freddie Francis had made horrors for both Hammer and Amicus but this is nothing like any of them. Shot on location with an atmosphere mixing playground horror and conservatory theatre that is downright weird and unsettling. The great lost girl of sixties British horror, Vanessa Howard, shines as she does in those other rarely seen gems Corruption [1967] and What Became of Jack and Jill [1972]. If Harold Pinter had made The Texas Chain Saw Massacre [1974] for the BBC this could have resulted. Excellent and unique.
这部电影佳作《和谐家庭》英语是1970年英国上映的恐怖片,这部剧深受观众喜爱,并在播出后获得了极高的收视率和口碑,剧中的角色形象塑造鲜明,故事情节紧凑,剧情发展合理。更微妙的是在导演弗雷迪·弗朗西斯的指导下,迈克尔·布莱恩特,厄休拉·豪威尔斯,帕特·海伍德每一个演员的出色表演将剧中的角色形象栩栩如生地呈现在观众面前。无论是剧情、演员的表演还是剧中歌曲,都是该电影巨作亮点的所在。