Paranoiac (1963)

It’s Wednesday during October so that means it’s HAMMER HORROR HUMPDAY and we’re on the last of our three Oliver Reed starring films and we saved one of his most scene chewing performances for today. This is also the show’s first discussion of a film starring the classic British Scream Queen Janette Scott. A family is in shambles. The mother and father are dead. A brother, Tony, gone from taking his own life. The surviving brother, Simon, is a psychotic alcoholic and the surviving sister thinks she might be losing her mind because she sees her dead brother around the estate. One day she decided to end it all the same way her brother did and throws herself off a cliff only to be rescued and returned home, in front of the whole family, by their supposedly late brother. Mystery, thrills, psychological chills and a very affecting jumpscare in this Freddie Francis flick from 1963 called “PARANOIAC” starring Janette Scott, Oliver Reed, Sheila Burrell & Alexander Davion. Sometimes we get way too close with our brothers and aunts and it’s kind of weird but also disturbingly normal for those British Blue Bloods. Hear us tell the unsettling tale and click this link here if you want to see it for yourself: https://archive.org/details/paranoiac_202107 Subscribe to us on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJf3lkRI-BLUTsLI_ehOsg Contact us here: [email protected] Check our past & current film ratings here: https://moviehumpers.wordpress.com Hear us on podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6o6PSNJFGXJeENgqtPY4h7 Our OG podcast “Documenteers”: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/documenteers-the-documentary-podcast/id1321652249 Soundcloud feed: https://soundcloud.com/documenteers Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/culturewrought