Generally speaking, I am a fan of the great British Hammer Studios' short-running series "Hammer House of Horror" (1980). While the episodes generally differ in quality, this eleventh entry to the series, "Visitors from the Grave" is by far the weakest one. Overall, "Visitors from the Grave" is unoriginal and terribly predictable, telling a story that has been told many times before, but in a very weak manner. Penny (Kathryn Leigh Scott), a young American woman and former mental patient who is married to the Englishman Harry (Simon McCorkindale), kills a man who tries to rape her. After her husband buries the rapist in the woods nearby their remote house, Penny begins having visions of the deceased, who has seemingly come back from the grave to haunt her... Topics like this one are omnipresent in Horror, and often very creepily executed; Sadly this cannot be said about "Visitors from the Grave", which, apart from some atmosphere, has hardly anything to be recommended for. The leading character Penny's hysterical character is extremely annoying, otherwise, there is not a single interesting or likable character in the film. Director Peter Sasdy deserves respect for directing three very good Hammer films, "Taste The Blood of Dracula" (1970), "Countess Dracula" (1971) and "Hands of the Ripper" (1971, his best film), as well as contributing three better episodes to "Hammer House of Horror". "Visitors from the Grave", however, is for H.H.H. completists only, otherwise I would recommend to skip this one and watch all the others.