It took Peggy Heller a long time to recover from the trauma of a brutal physical assault, suffered in her youth. When she married Robert, he provided her with the love and reassurance she craved for and the two settled down in a pretty house in the grounds of the public school where Robert was a master. But the headmaster of the school is not what he seems and Peggy is convinced he means to harm her - is her fear a figment of her tortured imagination or are there forces at work that intend to manipulate her anxieties with fatal consequences?
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- John Chardon TMDB · Oct 20195/10
Brainstorm! One of Hammer Films' ventures into the psychological horror realm, Fear in the Night is more fun than frightening. Plot has Judy Geeson as a young woman recovering from a nervous breakdown who moves with her husband to a boys' school. Once there she appears to be once again terrorized by a man with an artificial arm, but nobody believes her. Peter Cushing, Ralph Bates and Joan Collins also star, in what has to be a candidate for weakest of the Hammer psychological series of films. Things are not helped by it coming off as a cheap knock off of Hammer's own superlative "Taste of Fear 1961", a picture that firmly delivered on its promise. Fear in the Night starts off promisingly, with a genuinely scary set-up, and once Geeson and Bates arrive at the boys school it's ripe for chills and suggestion. Unfortunately, the premise of Geeson being menaced in what is essentially a four character piece quickly wears thin - with Cushing badly under used in the process. Atmosphere is fine, director and co-writer Jimmy Sangster always had a good eye and ear for uneasy dread. While the small cast give it a good whirl to make the modest intentions shine brighter. But ultimately it's only
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Cast
- Joan CollinsMolly Carmichael
- Peter CushingMichael Carmichael
- Judy GeesonPeggy Heller
- Ralph BatesRobert Heller
- James CossinsThe Doctor
- Gillian LindMrs. Beamish
- Brian Grellis2nd Policeman
- John Bown1st Policeman
- Jimmy GardnerPsychiatrist (uncredited)
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- Jimmy SangsterDirector
- Jimmy SangsterWriter
- Michael SysonWriter
- Arthur GrantDirector of Photography
- John McCabeOriginal Music Composer
- Peter WeatherleyEditor
- Jimmy SangsterProducer
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