Three Dangerous Ladies
A Trilogy Of Terror
Three unrelated horror shorts from 1975 UK horror anthology series 'Classics Dark and Dangerous' edited together into one horror film anthology with three segments. Each story features a woman who willingly or unwillingly spreads evil. In 'Mrs. Amworth', an enigmatic eccentric elderly lady arrives at a small gloomy Sussex village to live in a mansion that was supposedly once owned by her ancestors. She becomes the life of the town by organizing wonderful parties that the villagers come to enjoy. However, strange vampire-like attacks begin occurring in the village around the same time. In 'The Mannikin', Simone, a young singer on the rise, starts having strange back pain. Soon, a bizarre growth forms on her back. Terrified, she finds out that it's not a disease per se, but a satanic curse tied to her late estranged mother and her servant and that a horrible demonic creature called the 'mannikin' is being reborn through her back. In 'The Island' set during a war, Lt. George Simmonds takes leave from combat to visit his former lover Jenny Santander. She lives in a mansion on a secluded island. Everyone, including the ferryman, claim that the whole island is haunted and warn him not to go there. George, hardened by the real horrors of a war, refuses to believe in old wives tales and heads there anyway.
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