A blood-chiller involving a blind-home proprietor in cahoots with the head of an insurance company, a mute giant named Jake, and the mysterious deaths of several blind insurees. William K. Everson: Associated British, normally a very conservative and old-fashioned company, decided to make an American-style horror film from the Edgar Wallace thriller, and went all out, importing Bela Lugosi to play the fiendish villain. (He also has to masquerade as a kindly old English gentleman and wasn't quite up to it accent-wise, so the voice of O.B. Clarence, the "aged parent" from Great Expectations, was dubbed in for him.) Well photographed and mounted, though sometimes a little too grisly for its own good, it was the first British film to earn (and rightly so) the new Adults Only "H" (for horror) censor certificate.