Another weird gem from Hammer that was rescued from obscurity by the Horror Channel and horror fans all over are most grateful for this deed. Straight on Till Morning has a strange kitchen sink drama feel to it which is probably because Rita 'A Taste of Honey' Tushingham plays the lead female role. Brenda is a quiet girl in a Northern town who decides she wants a baby and travels to go to London to find a man to have a baby with. The film follows her life for a while. She gets a job and a flat and makes friends. She becomes embroiled with a handsome young psycho called Peter. We know he is a psycho because earlier on in the film, he kills a woman. Circumstances conspire that Brenda and Peter have a romance. She moves in with him and falls pregnant - Peter doesn't seem to mind and Brenda is in the seventh heaven as her wishes have been fulfilled. However, Peter has a nasty shock for her. He shows her footage of him killing a woman and a dog. Brenda becomes hysterical and starts screaming. Will she meet a similar fate? Definitely not your average Hammer Horror film - no ghosts that go bump in the night - Straight on Till Morning captures the zeitgeist of London in the early 1970s, which is pretty depressing - no way would I want to be there. Rita Tushingham's character is rather drab and dreary but this fact probably heightens the narrative tension - why would a handsome guy like Peter go out with such a boring woman? I think Brenda needed to be dull for the film to work. The film depicts her life in a fairytale way - insipid woman achieves her dream and suffers horribly for it. The acting is excellent and the film cuts between scenes as fast as a cheetah leaving it rolling along at a zippy pace. A good way to pass two hours of your time.