Audrey Rose - the girl from beyond the grave

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Movie
German title Audrey Rose - the girl from beyond the grave
Original title Audrey Rose
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1977
length 113 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Robert Wise
script Frank De Felitta
production Frank De Felitta,
Joe Wizan for United Artists
music Michael Small
camera Victor J. Kemper
cut Carl Kress
occupation

Audrey Rose - The Girl from Beyond (Original Title: Audrey Rose ) is an American horror film directed by Robert Wise from 1977 . The leading roles are cast with Marsha Mason , Anthony Hopkins , John Beck and Susan Swift . Frank De Felitta wrote the script based on his own novel . The film was produced by United Artists .

action

Ivy, the eleven-year-old daughter of Bill and Janice Templeton, repeatedly suffers from frightening dreams, the content of which she can only vaguely remember at first, but which become increasingly painful and contain tormenting memories of events that never happened.

When Elliot Hoover appears, a mysterious stranger, the Templetons feel he is watching. At first they think he is a sex offender targeting children, but then he tells them about his daughter, five-year-old Audrey Rose, who died in a car accident. He is convinced that his daughter's soul resides in the body of Ivy Templeton, who was born just a few minutes after the accident.

The couple have a hard time believing that Ivy is the reincarnation of Audrey Rose. However, her daughter's dreams are getting worse and worse. When Hoover kidnaps Ivy for a short time, he is arrested and a trial takes place. Despite initial skepticism, Janice Templeton believes Hoover's theory and testifies in his favor. The Templetons attorney then asks the judge to hypnotize Ivy . The request will be granted after a period of reflection. During the hypnosis, Ivy is confronted with her past step by step. When she was asked to remember the time before she was born, she had a panic attack as she lived through the agonizing death of Audrey Rose. This confirms Hoover's claims. Despite the immediate interruption of the hypnosis, Ivy finds all help too late and dies of shock.

Production, background, publication

Filming took place in both Los Angeles and New York. The scene in which Hoover confronts the Templeton couple with suspicions about their dead daughter took place at Valentinos on Pico, a well-known restaurant in Los Angeles. The accident sequence on the freeway was filmed on an unopened section in New Jersey and a scene at the zoo and at Ivy's school was filmed in New York. The film was also shot in Manhattan, in the Hotel des Artistes and in Central Park in Manhattan.

Brooke Shields is also said to have been tested for the title role . It was also featured in the paperback edition of the book. As Joe Fisher writes in The Case for Reincarnation , the script for this film was inspired by an actual incident in De Felitta's life. His six-year-old son played ragtime melodies on the piano without ever having had a music lesson. To De Felitta's astonished question, he replied that his fingers would do it all by themselves. This caused the author to think about the possibility of reincarnation.

Susan Swift made her film debut in the role of Ivy Templeton. Since her part was very demanding, Wise hired an acting coach who specialized in such scenes. Hopkins and Mason, already experienced stage actors at the time, were open to the experimental environment of the film.

The film premiered in the United States on April 6, 1977. It was published on August 4, 1977 in the Netherlands, September 17, 1977 in Japan, September 26, 1977 in Denmark and on September 30, 1977 in Italy. In the Federal Republic of Germany it was released on October 13, 1977. The German alternative title of the film is Audrey Rose - the girl from the underworld .

In 1978 Audrey Rose was released in the following countries: Finland, Mexico, Ireland, Sweden and Norway. It was also shown in Argentina, Bulgaria, Brazil, Spain, Finland, France, Greece, Poland, Portugal and the Soviet Union.

The film was released by Twentieth Century Fox on October 2, 2006 on both DVD and Blu-ray with a German soundtrack.

Reviews

The film was panned and praised in equal parts after its release. Almost 25 years later, critics still had a hard time deciding whether Audrey Rose had been a triumph or failure for Wise. At the time of its release, the film had to compete with child characters as diverse as the one in The Exorcist (1973) or the one in The Omen (1976), Audrey Rose differing significantly from these characters. In this film, Wise did not try to shock his audience, rather he invited them to deal with the dark side of the unknown.

"Banal film of the wave of occultism with horror effects à la exorcist and pseudo information on the subject of reincarnation," was the lexicon of international films . Vincent Canby wrote in the New York Times : “Mr. Wise [...] meets every script cliché with his own, and he even manages to take all tension off a crucial scene in court. "

The television magazine Prisma spoke of an "occult thriller" that Robert Wise shot "shortly after his huge success with 'The Exorcist' ". It also said: "Anthony Hopkins did not have the star status at that time as it does today, although here, as a strange stranger, he shows his acting talent to the full."

Cinema found: “Little surprise and clearly too long.” Conclusion: “Unfortunately not a forgotten pearl from the afterlife.”

Kino.de wrote “Audrey Rose” was at the end of a cycle of occult horror films that would have caused “a considerable boom” in this genre in the 1970s, and “hits like ' The Exorcist ' to ' Carrie ' to ' Das Omen ' which in turn produced their respective copies ”. Audrey Rose was created when the subject of evil or evil-possessed children was already a sub-genre of its own. In conclusion, it was concluded: "Under the direction of Robert Wise, in this special variant the dialogue, along with surprising horror effects, became the real tension in the film - especially the monologues by Anthony Hopkins."

Awards

Anthony Hopkins and Marsha Mason were each nominated for a Saturn Award in 1978 for their roles .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Audrey Rose (1977) Articles adS tcm.com (English)
  2. ↑ Audrey Rose (1977) Trivia adS tcm.com (English)
  3. ↑ Audrey Rose - The Girl from Beyond adS filmstarts.de (with film images and trailer)
  4. ↑ Audrey Rose - The Girl From Beyond Blu-rayDisc
  5. ↑ Audrey Rose - the girl from beyond the grave. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 3, 2019 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  6. ↑ cit. after Ronald M. Hahn , Volker Jansen: Lexicon of Horror Films . Bergisch Gladbach 1989, p. 34.
  7. ↑ Audrey Rose - the girl from beyond the grave. In: prisma.de . Retrieved December 20, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Audrey Rose - The Girl from the Beyond (1977) adS cinema.de (with 9 film images)
  9. ↑ "Audrey Rose - The Girl From Beyond": Supernatural thriller in which Anthony Hopkins tries to convince a married couple that their 11-year-old is the reincarnation of their own deceased daughter. adS kino.de. Retrieved December 20, 2017.