The Comeback (1978)

Directed by

Pete Walker

Genre

horror film, mystery film

Country

Australia, United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 34m

Rated

16

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 38 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A successful American singer named Nick Cooper goes to a remote English manor to record a new album. He is soon stalked and terrorized by a masked psychopath who had previously murdered his ex-wife.

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What happens

The Comeback (also known as The Day the Screaming Stopped or Encore) is a 1978 British psychological horror slasher film directed and produced by Pete Walker and starring Jack Jones, Pamela Stephenson, and David Doyle. Its plot follows Nick Cooper, a successful but dormant American singer who retreats to a remote manor in Surrey to record an album; there, he is followed by a psychopath—donning a hag mask—who murdered his ex-wife Gail. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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