Disturbed husband strangles Joan Collins, as he imagines strangling Jean Marsh. Nice death stare and body shots. Dark Places is not a very well known seventies British horror movie; probably owing to the fact that it’s not a Hammer movie, but it features an interesting story and a great cast, and overall this is certainly a very decent little thriller! The story has some fairly strong horror themes running throughout, but personally I wouldn’t say this is a horror flick; Dark Places is a thriller, and the main focus is on the thing that makes the world go round – money, and a huge stash of it. At the centre of the film is a spooky old house, once owned by a mental patient who died. The house has now being taken over by the Asylum administrator who inherited the house. This is bad news for a few different people in the village – mostly notably scheming couple Dr Mandevile and Sarah. Before he died, the owner of the house hid a huge sum of money somewhere within the walls and the pair have been on the trail of it ever since. Not wanting to risk losing their cash, Sarah and the doctor hatch a plan to turn the situation to their advantage. In this scene, Robert Hardy gets a two-for-one by believing he’s strangling Jean Marsh when in actually its Joan Collins!
Dark Places (1974) – Joan Collins is hand strangled in flashback while killer is visualizing killing another woman
