This is some good old fashion British Skulduggery--involving low sea smuggling. This film was really a kind of updating of directing great Alfred Hitchcock's 1939 pirate smuggling Jamaica Inn, with one really wicked twist--the character of Rev. Dr. Blyss, inhabited in high, other-the-top fashion by veteran British horror actor Peter Cushing.
This also has phantoms. No one is quite sure what the hell they are, but turns out they too are pirates! In all, this is just good, old-fashioned fun from famed British Horror camp production company Hammer!
This type of smuggling piracy was at one time quite common in British waters. They always needed an out of the way contact on land, and it was usually somewhere in the wilds of various Celtic lands, like Wales and Cornwall. This is quite well portrayed in Jamaica Inn. Here, the area that the pirates are doing business in is somewhat isolated, in some unnamed marshy area, but there are enough people around to necessitate the use of phantoms riders as a rouse to scare off the locals. You know...like in Scooby episode!
THESE GUYS ARE PRETTY COOL LOOKING
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