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Paranoiac (1960)

Paranoiac poster
Directed by
Freddie Francis
Genre
horror film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 20m
Rated
16
Rating
6.6 of 10 from 83 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman returns to her family estate after her brother's supposed suicide. She becomes tangled in a web of deception and psychological manipulation with a mysterious impostor.

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What happens

Paranoiac is a 1963 British neo-noir psychological thriller film from Hammer Film Productions. It is directed by Freddie Francis, and stars Janette Scott, Oliver Reed, Sheila Burrell, and Alexander Davion. The screenplay, written by Jimmy Sangster, is based loosely on the 1949 novel Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey. The film was released by Rank Film Distributors. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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