Tower of Evil
1972 film by Jim O'Connolly
Tower of Evil (also known by the titles Horror on Snape Island and Beyond the Fog) is a 1972 slasher film directed and written by Jim O'Connolly and starring Bryant Haliday and Jill Haworth. It follows a group of archeologists searching for a mystic Phoeniciaan treasure on a deserted island, where they are met with a series of mysterious murders.
A co-production between the United Kingdom and United States, Tower of Evil was filmed at Shepperton Studios.
Plot
One night, a boat reaches Snape Island. Two seamen go on shore and find a male corpse with a severed hand. They enter a lighthouse to investigate and find a female body with a severed head. They split up and find another murdered person. Then they find a young woman, Penny, hiding in a closet. Traumatized, she fatally stabs the older seaman. The other man—the boat's captain—survives.
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