The best Mervyn Johns’s horror movies

Mervyn Johns

Mervyn Johns

18/02/1899- 06/09/1992
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The Day of the Triffids

The Day of the Triffids
6.1/10
A shower of meteorites produces a rare night time spectacle that blinds anyone that looks at it. As it was such a beautiful sight, most people were watching, and as a consequence, 99% of the World's population go completely blind. In the original novel, this chaos results in the escape of Triffids: farmed plants harvested for their oils, which are capable of moving themselves around and are carnivorous. In this film version, however, the Triffids are not indigenous plants. Instead they are space aliens whose spores have arrived in this and an earlier meteor shower. Derided by the original novel's author, John Wyndham, for straying so far away from the source material.

Dead of Night

Dead of Night
7.5/10
Architect Walter Craig, seeking the possibility of some work at a country farmhouse, soon finds himself once again stuck in his recurring nightmare. Dreading the end of the dream that he knows is coming, he must first listen to all the assembled guests' own bizarre tales.

The Old Dark House

The Old Dark House
5.4/10
An American car salesman in London becomes mixed up in a series of fatal occurrences at a secluded mansion.

House of Mortal Sin

House of Mortal Sin
6.4/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 03/02/1976
  • Character: Father Duggan
Also known as 'The Confessional', another of Pete Walkers's critiques of institutional hypocrisy, in which a troubled young girl goes to confession at the local church. Unfortunately, the sexually frustrated priest she confesses to becomes obsessed with her. At first, the priest stalks the girl, but later it is revealed that he will stop at nothing, including blackmail and murder, just to get close to her.

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