Like the other people who have already commented this was a movie I watched alone at night when I was nine or ten on a battered B/W TV with crap reception. The haunting jazz score and atmospheric fluid photography (through the floor of the mill loft) were ahead of their time and are one of the reasons this hasn't dated too badly. Dame Flora Robson walking away from her lighthouse in her flowing cloak also reminds me of Christopher Lee in the Whicker Man, another forgotten movie from the sixties that is now lauded as one of the great British Horror Classics. I wonder where David Green is now. Maybe they should release this on DVD with a director's commentary. after all it seems to have been a big part of a lot of our childhoods. I especially love the dappled sunlight on the windscreen throughout the title sequence, which has a surreal quality. I've just viewed this one again on Channel 5 (More crap reception) for the first time in about 20 years....and am happy to say its still, in its own small way a very effective movie
Review of The Shuttered Room
