Fear in the Night (1972)

Directed by

Jimmy Sangster

Genre

horror film, psychological horror fiction

Country

Australia, United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 34m

Rated

PG

Rating

5.9 of 10 from 66 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A psychologically fragile woman moves to a rural boarding school where her husband works. A mysterious attacker with a prosthetic arm torments her.

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What happens

Fear in the Night is a 1972 British psychological horror film directed, produced, and co-written by Jimmy Sangster, produced by Hammer Film Productions, and starring Judy Geeson, Joan Collins, Peter Cushing, and Ralph Bates. It focuses on a psychologically fragile woman who, upon relocating to a rural boarding school where her husband has taken a job, finds herself being tormented by a mysterious figure with a prosthetic arm. Like many horror films of its era, Fear in the Night has been noted for its usage of female hysteria as a central narrative motif, and was released as a double bill in the United Kingdom with Straight on Till Morning, another Hammer film featuring similar themes. In the United States, the film was released as part of a double bill with Demons of the Mind. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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