The Projected Man (1966)

Starring Mary Peach, Bryant Haliday, Norman Wooland, Ronald Allen, Derek Farr
Directed by Ian Curteis
(actor & director credits courtesy IMDB.com)

A scientist has created a breakthrough process for turning objects into energy and reassembling them, but his employer's plans to discredit him force him into making a daring experiment on himself.

Despite a few interesting visuals and some effective scenes, the film is brought down to earth a bit by its lack of originality, using story elements already brought to the screen in films like The Fly and 4D Man.  I rather like lead Bryant Haliday, who created some memorable characters in the movies Devil Doll and Curse Of The Voodoo, but he's not given enough to do here and after his character's transformation into a murdering monster, the filmmakers saddle him with a rather uninspired makeup and design as well as some fairly weak dialogue.  I still found some positives in the film, which features some fine actors and held my interest, but it seems more like a less impressive version of the superior sci-fi chillers that had to have inspired it.

Curse Of The Voodoo (1965)

Starring Bryant Haliday, Dennis Price, Lisa Daniely, Ronald Leigh-Hunt, Mary Kerridge
Directed by Lindsay Shonteff
(actor & director credits courtesy IMDB.com)

A big game hunter kills a lion in the territory of a voodoo-practicing tribe and thereafter is haunted by visions of the tribesmen stalking him.

Actor Haliday, producer Richard Gordon, and director Shonteff reunited for this movie after making Devil Doll the previous year, turning out another intriguing British horror film.  It's not quite as creepy as their previous effort, but is blessed with a terrific music score by composer Brian Fahey, who effectively uses jungle drums to underscore Haliday's voodoo nightmares, along with stirring themes that complement the relentless drumbeats.  A highlight of the film is a dynamically photographed chase sequence on an English heath, in which Haliday is pursued by two spear-toting tribesmen (at least in his own mind).

Devil Doll (1964)

Starring Bryant Haliday, William Sylvester, Yvonne Romain, Sandra Dorne, Nora Nicholson
Directed by Lindsay Shonteff
(actor & director credits courtesy IMDB.com)

A reporter investigates a hypnotist named The Great Vorelli, whose act includes a ventriloquist's dummy that seems to have a mind of its own.

This British horror film is quite good- it's not the first movie to mine chills from a creepy ventriloquist's dummy coming to life, but the scenes of the dummy, named Hugo, moving on its own, likely a short actor in a mask, are well-photographed, and genuinely eerie.  The film sets up a mystery around exactly why Hugo can walk and talk by itself, and I must admit it kept me guessing for a while.  The acting is strong throughout, with Haliday creating a sinister character through a menacing stare and almost whispered dialogue.  The only sequence that seems to strike a wrong note is Romain's character becoming incapacitated and bedridden, apparently purposefully by Vorelli, but it's never really explained why.