Late 60s British horror film was made with Canadian and American money as well, and feels like a flick made in the 1950s in black and white by the Danzigers. It's got some old American leads - Robert Hutton, Akim Tamiroff and Broderick Crawford - and an uninspired plot about killings in a small town. Tamiroff at least has character and some spark about him but Hutton is a very dull lead, looking like the lead in some cop show.
The gimmick is the creature that kills is a prehistoric vulture. Because the budget is so low we never get a good look at it and when we do the result is laughable. The handling is mediocre, the acting bland. The one thing that was a bit different was the lead guy made sure he took out time from his schedule to get tickets for him and his wife to go to the ballet - the sheer middle class domesticity of it stayed with me. (This is a movie mostly about middle aged people - no young people in it.) This movie is dumb.
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