Price plays Dr Warren Chapin, a biologist who does autopsies on executed criminals but whose real interest is in the physiological effects of fear. He is married to Isabel, a cruel nymphomaniac who makes life a misery for both him and her sister Lucy who is engaged to his young assistant. One of his autopsies is gatecrashed by a meek relative of the deceased Ollie Higgins ( Philip Coolidge ). They become friends. Warren muses on his theory that the spinal injuries on the executees might be caused by a parasite that grows at times of extreme fear but is vanquished by the release of a scream. Ollie introduces him to his wife, a deaf mute. This exchange becomes a matter of life and death.
Patricia Cutts ( as Isabel Chapin )
Sex : Offscreen with multiple lovers. Nice cleavage
Death : Presumably survives despite much foreshadowing
Patricia was a British actress active since the late forties. She had a minor part in North By North West . In 1958 she had been arrested and briefly jailed in Hollywood for a hit and run felony but the charges were later dismissed. She returned to England and had just started playing Blanche Hunt in Coronation Street when she died of a drugs overdose in 1974 aged 48.
Pamela Lincoln ( as Lucy Stevens )
Sex : No
Death : Survives
Pamela was married to co-star Daryl Hickman in real life and soon dropped out of acting but she made sporadic appearances up until the early eighties. She is now 79.
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