| The Hand of Night | |
| Director: | Frederic Goode |
| Producer: | Harry Field |
| Music: | John Shakespeare |
| Cinematography: | William Jordan |
| Editing: | John Blair (supervising) |
| Studio: | Associated British Pathé |
| Released: | (general release) |
| Country: | UK |
| Language: | English |
The Hand of Night (also known as Beast of Morocco [1]) is a 1968 British horror film directed by Frederic Goode and starring William Sylvester, Diane Clare and Aliza Gur.[2] [3] Its plot concerns a man who encounters a dangerous woman while searching for his friend, a missing archaeologist, in Morocco.[4] [5] [6]
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "The pink mist that billows from the eye socket of a skull throughout the opening credits augurs both the pretensions and the weaknesses of this rather dull exercise in the macabre. Despite some sterling decomposition work by the make-up department, the film relies heavily on old Hammer production tricks without contributing any original variations of its own; and the story is not helped by the portentous rhetoric of lines like "I too have lived in the shadows". William Sylvester leads the group of sweat-streaked humans battling indomitably against the unknown – in this case a species of lily-livered vampirism that would make Dracula turn in his shallow grave."[7]