question about the ending (spoiler)

I think that the bulk of the action was a flash forward, like a vision that Cushing had. He walks into the party and people say things he remembered them saying and do things he remembered them doing. He's had this ESP type experience that could have prevented the awful things from happening, but he goes right ahead. Karma? Predestination? Good question.

Not really a great movie, but TCM sure got a good print of it. I'd seen this many years ago on tv and only remembered the part at the end where pretty much the entire cast got killed by the laser.

The music wasn't bad, it just seemed to be from a different film. And those clothes! There's a lesson in this for any young director out there: set your film in maybe the 12th century. That way the costumes won't look so ridiculous forty years later when your film is on the classic movie channel.

The perfect ending would have been with Sue Lloyd's utter melt-down with the laser. Her performance was incredibly disturbing in that scene.

I think the ending's intent was to lock on the moment Cushing's character became corrupted. He really was a decent guy who deserved better than Lloyd...

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I seemed to have a quite different take on the end than most here. In the last scene before, it looked like Peter Cushings face was destroyed by the laser and now the couple were grooming a man to kill to NOW presumably fix Cushings face.

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It's a good thing surgical lasers have a "kill all the people in the room" knob on them.

they were showing the point where it all went wrong for the good doctor.