I suppose I understand why this is considered an underrated classic, and I know it was nominated for several awards. Terence Stamp does very well, but I'm not sure about Samantha Eggar - was SHE annoying or was her CHARACTER annoying? I had trouble believing she was smart enough to get in to art school. I enjoyed looking at the beautiful house and sort of wished I could live in that cute little converted dungeon. There were a few good scenes but it was overall pretty slow. What really killed this for me was the music, which was completely ridiculous. It was overbearing and campy, jaunty and loud. Were someone else to take this film and re-score it I think I'd give it a quite different rating, but as it stands I was too distracted by how inappropriate it was to pay enough attention to what was going on visually.