Dark Places is a 1973 British psychological horror film directed by Don Sharp and starring Robert Hardy, Christopher Lee, Joan Collins and Herbert Lom.

Unknown to him, Marr’s former physician Dr Ian Mandeville and his sister Sarah compete with solicitor Prescott in trying to locate two suitcases of money rumoured to be hidden on the large estate, that he hopes to claim for himself.

Edward, later revealed to have been recently released from an asylum, soon starts hearing voices and begins to have flashbacks of the life of Andrew Marr, slowly witnessing the latter’s marriage to his mentally unstable wife Victoria fall apart.

In desperation Victoria had encouraged the two equally psychotic children to murder the governess whilst she attempted to seduce Andrew in the bedroom.

In a 1993 interview he said that "apart from one slow sequence" near the beginning, the movie "had some super stuff", and that it was "a very strange production all the way through" in part because producer James Hannah was eccentric.

[6] The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Parts of this rather Hammerish horror are quite ingeniously plotted but how unfortunate that the action should revolve round that most hackneyed of institutions, the old dark house (complete with attendant trappings: the frightened taxi driver who warns that no one from the village goes up to Marr's Grove after dark; the sinister doctor who contrives supernatural manifestations to scare off the new resident).

Don Sharp has his work cut out for him trying to gee up this old warhorse but achieves a couple of quite agreeable frissons when the moribund Marr suddenly sits bolt upright to gasp his last (Alta, dear God, forgive me"), and when Foster knocks a hole in his bedroom wall thereby releasing a flock of bats.

"[9] Dave Sindelar from Fantastic Movie Musings and Ramblings wrote: "Though there’s not a whole lot of novelty to this story of ghostly possession, it does have some interesting points to it.