The Beast in the Cellar (1971)

Director
James Kelley

Main cast
Beryl Reid; Flora Robson; John Hamill; Tessa Wyatt; T. P. McKenna

Genres
Horror, Foreign

Description
Two spinsters have kept their mad brother locked up in their cellar for 30 years. Then he escapes ...


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