These quotes come from Jonathan Rigby's "English Gothic: A Century of Horror Cinema" (Reynolds & Hearn 2000), about two Hammer films from 1965, The Plague of the Zombies and The Reptile.
"Fresh from RADA, Jacqueline Pearce certainly gives a disturbing sexual charge to Alice's green-faced resuscitation. Her sudden awakening is brilliantly hanlded in the best heart-stopping Hammer tardition and her decapitation by Sir James is preceded by a camera-hogging close-up of her leering approach. If Pearce's account of the living Alice is one of the most delicate performances in any Hammer film, then her account of the undead Alice is one of the most terrifying, offering a fusion of sex and death as disquieting as anything even Barbara Steele came up with."
The page has a large photograph captioned "Jacqueline Pearce relaxes during The Plague of the Zombies." She has long hair (!) and is reclining in a coffin, in an open grave, wearing a long white dress, grinning and holding a cigarette in one hand.
"Jacqueline Pearce, in another splendidly intense per- formance, transcends the make-up by investing the Reptile with an aptly sinuous grace, encased in a black gown of watered silk and with a pony tail slithering incongruously down her back."
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