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I'd never see this until last night, one of the few Hammers left for me to experience for the first time. I'd never heard a lot positive about it.
I found it OK for "later" Hammer. I tend to be a fan of the pre-70's films primarily, by this time they really seemed to be losing their atmosphere.

But everything here was pretty competent: Sets, script, direction, acting (I too like Nigel Green, although I do agree that the young male lead was pretty weak). The age makeup on Pitt is a bit rough, especially in the early scenes where it has to be more subtle (It gets better when it gets heavier and over the top, this is easier to do).

The one thing I found really lacking was the music. Too romantic and without that sense of foreboding that James Bernard always gave Hammer's best. I honestly found the music to be one of the scariest things about the early films, and even today just hearing it can give me a primitive shiver.
Now I can see how this film is more about relationships than the supernatural, even the cinematography goes for a brighter, less saturated, almost gauzy look rather than an expressionist chiaroscuro. (I suppose some of this could be the transfer, not enhanced on the MGM disc and a bit soft).
This makes it not really "feel" like a Hammer film to me. I'll always appreciate a pretty woman's bosom, but the prurient interest films like this and LUST, TWINS, and LOVERS held for me in my adolescence when they were new has now waned, and I find myself wanting the whole colorful gothic package I grew up with in the 60's.

So all-in-all OK, but give me the Bray classics.

SAM33