April 4, 2021

This Day in Halloween: "Taste of Fear" premieres in London in 1961. / Illustration by Mikayla Webb.

Taste of Fear premieres in London in 1961. The Hammer thriller known as Scream of Fear in the U.S. stars Susan Strasberg and Christopher Lee. It was written by Hammer’s Jimmy Sangster, and directed by Seth Holt. Lee regarded it as the best film he made for Hammer.