[4][5] The film stars Susan Strasberg, Ronald Lewis, Ann Todd, and Christopher Lee in a supporting role.

[6] After the suicide of her best friend, wheelchair-user heiress Penny Appleby arrives at her estranged father's estate on the French Riviera.

Jimmy Sangster stated that he originally wrote the film for Sidney Box who assigned him to produce it.

[11] The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Taste of Fear suggests the work of a scriptwriter dangerously overstimulated by Psycho and Les Diaboliques and determined to find even more variations to play on the theme of the peripatetic corpse.

...The plot, although it twists like a cork-screw in its final sequences, is a good deal less impenetrable than its creator might like to think; and even the final images, of Ann Todd (who has played with a nice neurotic edge) smashed on the rocks, and Susan Strasberg rather smugly triumphant on the clifftop, achieve no great surprise.

All those creaking shutters, flickering candles, wavering shadows and pianos playing in empty rooms still yield a tiny frisson.