Use the HTML below. Worth watching if you like the classics! There she meets the ghoulish headteacher Michael Carmichael (Peter Cushing), a one-armed man with a shadowy demeanour, and his bitch wife Molly (Joan Collins). No one believes her. Commenting on the film's establishing cinematography, Muir further states:Huckvale also draws comparisons on the character of Molly Carmichael (Joan Collins) as a catalyst to Peggy's purported hysteria, likening her to the unnamed wife of Maximilian de Winter in If these were shortened, the movie would probably last about 20 minutes. Maybe I should have predicted the ending, but I didn't. Thirty-nine years old here, and nine years prior to incarnating TV's ultimate bitch on wheels, Alexis Carrington Colby Dexter, etc. With all this acting talent, the Hammer staff, Sangster, I was just very disappointed that the film was so blase. Was this review helpful? For starters, the movie is much too long for its slight story - it would have worked much better had it played out as a half hour (or full hour) television show. Not the usual from this highly productive studio. Following a horrifying experience with the occult in Africa, a schoolteacher moves to a small English village, only to discover that black magic resides there as well. Viewers will appreciate just how fine the acting is, perhaps, after a second viewing, with a greater knowledge of all the characters' secret motivations. YEAR RELEASED: 1972 DIRECTOR: Jimmy Sangster CAST: Judy Geeson, Peter Cushing, Joan Collins and Ralph Bates.
Set in a boarding school in the British countryside, the movie doesn't quite live up to its potential, but has some neat surprises along the way. Woolrich is credited under pen name William Irish. Still, the good outweighs the bad and there are plenty of nice, genuine jolts. The problem with imitations of "Les Diaboliques" is that there are so many of them that the scenarios have become entirely unsurprising and fairly predictable straight from the beginning. Still, the film does offer some compensations, including very fine performances by the actors just mentioned, as well as by Ralph Bates, playing Peggy's husband. The only other people on the school's premises are the creepy but authoritarian headmaster Michael Carmichael (Cushing) and his frigid wife Molly, who relentlessly blasts cute little bunny rabbits to pieces with a shotgun. Fear In The Night is a late entry in Hammer's sub-genre of contemporary psychological thrillers. She is beautiful and bitchy(always her trademarks as an actress)yet has very little screen time and none with Peter Cushing who is playing her husband! Cast & Credits. Was this review helpful? Was this review helpful? Fandango Affiliated Companies: Fear in the Night (1972) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Fear In The Night marks the final time Hammer regular Jimmy Sangster directed a film for the studio, and he brings a reasonably intriguing sense of mystery to the proceedings.
1972 Directed by Jimmy Sangster. Was this review helpful? Upon arrival, she discovers that the school is run by headmaster Michael Carmichael, and she soon becomes the victim of murderous attacks by a one-armed man. There are a few clever ideas submerged in this tepid suspense film, but they are buried under some mediocre acting and horrible direction. Adding to the mix is Collins as Cushing's icy, bitchy wife (though, astonishingly, they are never seen together!) The unfolding of the plot is quite dull and mechanical, and far too many sequences are overlong and irrelevant. But Michael turns the tables, and both the villains end up dead. A woman with a history of mental illness is beset by visitations of a person in trench-coat & gloves who repeatedly acosts her, but is she just suffering from delusions again? Many of the suspense films that Hammer produced are among the best that the studio had to offer - Taste of Fear and Paranoiac being among the finest of them. However, in director Jimmy Sangster's hands, his third directorial feature, the plot is very predictable and slow-moving. Fandango helps you go back to the movies with confidence and peace of mind. Often effective British thriller features a tip-top cast(Joan Collins, Peter Cushing, Ralph Bates, Judy Geeson), but suffers from a lack of originality as this is, for the most part, a rehash of similar motifs explored in earlier British horror films like PARANOIAC and NIGHTMARE, which themselves derived from the brilliant French thriller DIABOLIQUE. Three trustees of the Van Traylen fund have died during the last few months in deaths looking like suicides. United Kingdom. The casting in this movie is wonderful - everyone was great in this movie. The headmaster in turn has a shrewish, grasping wife (Joan Collins)who spends her time cruelly blasting cute bunnies with a double-barreled shotgun. Ok, I honestly don't understand all these bad avaliations and this low rating. 6 out of 6 found this helpful. During her brief stay, Peggy finds out about the macabre school history as well as a disturbing thing or two about her marriage.
Set in a boarding school in the British countryside, the movie doesn't quite live up to its potential, but has some neat surprises along the way. Woolrich is credited under pen name William Irish. Still, the good outweighs the bad and there are plenty of nice, genuine jolts. The problem with imitations of "Les Diaboliques" is that there are so many of them that the scenarios have become entirely unsurprising and fairly predictable straight from the beginning. Still, the film does offer some compensations, including very fine performances by the actors just mentioned, as well as by Ralph Bates, playing Peggy's husband. The only other people on the school's premises are the creepy but authoritarian headmaster Michael Carmichael (Cushing) and his frigid wife Molly, who relentlessly blasts cute little bunny rabbits to pieces with a shotgun. Fear In The Night is a late entry in Hammer's sub-genre of contemporary psychological thrillers. She is beautiful and bitchy(always her trademarks as an actress)yet has very little screen time and none with Peter Cushing who is playing her husband! Cast & Credits. Was this review helpful? Was this review helpful? Fandango Affiliated Companies: Fear in the Night (1972) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Fear In The Night marks the final time Hammer regular Jimmy Sangster directed a film for the studio, and he brings a reasonably intriguing sense of mystery to the proceedings.
1972 Directed by Jimmy Sangster. Was this review helpful? Upon arrival, she discovers that the school is run by headmaster Michael Carmichael, and she soon becomes the victim of murderous attacks by a one-armed man. There are a few clever ideas submerged in this tepid suspense film, but they are buried under some mediocre acting and horrible direction. Adding to the mix is Collins as Cushing's icy, bitchy wife (though, astonishingly, they are never seen together!) The unfolding of the plot is quite dull and mechanical, and far too many sequences are overlong and irrelevant. But Michael turns the tables, and both the villains end up dead. A woman with a history of mental illness is beset by visitations of a person in trench-coat & gloves who repeatedly acosts her, but is she just suffering from delusions again? Many of the suspense films that Hammer produced are among the best that the studio had to offer - Taste of Fear and Paranoiac being among the finest of them. However, in director Jimmy Sangster's hands, his third directorial feature, the plot is very predictable and slow-moving. Fandango helps you go back to the movies with confidence and peace of mind. Often effective British thriller features a tip-top cast(Joan Collins, Peter Cushing, Ralph Bates, Judy Geeson), but suffers from a lack of originality as this is, for the most part, a rehash of similar motifs explored in earlier British horror films like PARANOIAC and NIGHTMARE, which themselves derived from the brilliant French thriller DIABOLIQUE. Three trustees of the Van Traylen fund have died during the last few months in deaths looking like suicides. United Kingdom. The casting in this movie is wonderful - everyone was great in this movie. The headmaster in turn has a shrewish, grasping wife (Joan Collins)who spends her time cruelly blasting cute bunnies with a double-barreled shotgun. Ok, I honestly don't understand all these bad avaliations and this low rating. 6 out of 6 found this helpful. During her brief stay, Peggy finds out about the macabre school history as well as a disturbing thing or two about her marriage.