Swedish '70s films like Anita and the Language of Love films, director Torgny Wickman shifted 
gears a bit with this horror-ish tale of occult practices in the countryside. Better known on the streaming circuit as Sensuous Sorceress (which is still its title over at Cultpix, albeit drastically cut down to 76m11s), this one holds historical status as Sweden's first erotic horror film, something The Blood Rose staked out the same year in France and Virgin Witch did a year later in England. However, it doesn't really slot as neatly into the genre as many of its peers -- though it does deliver where it counts.
With its austere snowy setting and introspective performances, Fear Has 1000 Eyes doesn't go for shocks for 
the most part but does toss in some overt sacrilegious imagery; just count how many cross shapes get sliced or burned here. Andersson and Wahlgren had just appeared in Wickman's Eva the prior year, while Sanders (hot off of Tinto Brass' Nerosubianco) has to do the heaviest dramatic lifting here. All of them are willing to go the extra mile in the nude scenes in the second half of the film, which are quite a bit more revealing and extended here than the standard 76-minute cut (which also removed a lot of atmosphere and some wince-inducing close-ups of real finger slicing). Weirdly, the effective music score by Mats Olsson (who worked on other Wickman films including the later, utterly insane The Lustful Vicar) manages to echo Henry Mancini's earlier Charade while also sporting a main theme almost identical to the one for The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh the following year. 
before, it's a real treat and works so much better here than any prior option. The LPCM 2.0 Swedish mono audio is also immaculate and comes with optional English or Swedish subtitles. Patrick von Sychowski and Rickard Gramfors 
deliver a sturdy new audio commentary covering the director, cast, cut material, locations, Swedish filmmaking at the turn of the '70s... it all gets covered here in an informative, entertaining fashion. Andersson is represented with "Solveig Andersson: Sinner or Saint?" (17m26s) covering her life and career, including her complex thoughts on her work and initial attempts to block their release on home video. Her eventual spoken memories of her key films are quite interesting including an unsurprising comment about the insanely dangerous fire gag she has to do at the end. Also included area 4m48s Andersson screen test with Wickman (probably for Eva), a behind-the-scenes gallery (3m10s), a poster and image gallery (9m20s), a Torgny Wickman files gallery (19m55s) of production ephemera in Swedish, a "Hebenon in My Ear" (10m) featurette with producer Inge Ivarson and Klinga Wickman looking back at the director, and the theatrical trailer.