It's the off-season at the lonely Beauregard Hotel in Bournemoth, and only the long-term tenants are still in residence. Life is stirred up, however, when the beautiful Ann Shankland arrives to see her alcoholic ex-husband, John Malcolm, who is secretly engaged to Pat Cooper, the woman who runs the hotel. Meanwhile, snobbish Mrs Railton-Bell discovers that the kindly if rather doddering Major Pollock, played by David Niven, who won an Oscar for his performance, a retired officer who likes to find out more...

Apocalyptic look at mankind's self-destructive descent back to savagery. The Antichrist is reborn in 20th Century Italy and immediately prophecies are fulilled, enemies vanquished and the dark forces re-awakened. Superior horror, tense and unforgiving, with some classic mayhem scenes!