6. CHARLIE BOY
At a country manor, uncle Jack is fixing the television aerial on the roof. He falls from the roof to his death.
His nephew, Graham, receives his share of his late uncle's estate, and among some of the valuables is an African fetish doll. His girlfriend, Sarah, is strangely fascinated by it and christens it "Charlie Boy".
On the way back to his residence, Graham is so preoccupied talking about the new production company he wants to set up that he loses concentration driving and cuts a man up. The villainous looking scarfaced man does not take too kindly to this, and after a series of erratic movements with his car, he nearly kills Graham.
Graham: "What's he messing about at, bloody lunatic"
Relaxing back at his home and still a bit perturbed by the actions of the scarfaced man, Graham picks up the fetish doll and jokingly plunges a dagger into it imagining it to be Mr. Scarface. At the same time, Mr. Scarface is being stabbed and roughed up by two heavies and left for dead.
When his brother, Mark, reneges on a promise that he would stump up half the cash for a production company they were going to set up with Phil, a director, he is furious with rage. He takes a photograph with Mark in the frame and stabs at the image of his brother while the African fetish doll is close by.
Later, Graham learns that his brother has died in a freak horse riding accident.
When Phil also dies in another freak accident while on a film set, Graham decides that it is the fetish doll that is exerting a malevolent influence. He relates this to Sarah and tells her that people are dying in the order they appear on the photograph. When she shows him an article in a newspaper about a scarfaced man being killed, he becomes more convinced than ever and believes that it is Gwen, uncle Jack's housekeeper, who will die next.
He finds her dead in the bath having committed suicide.
Graham rushes to see Heinz, his late uncle's friend and antique dealer. He tells him that the only way to stop the evil is by burning the fetish...
Starring:
Leigh Lawson
Angela Bruce
Guest Stars:
Marius Goring
Frances Cuka
David Healey
Screenplay by:
Bernie Cooper and Frances Megahy
Directed by:
Robert Young