The Fear - fear in the night
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| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The Fear - fear in the night |
| Original title | Fear in the night |
| Country of production | United Kingdom |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1972 |
| length | 94 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jimmy Sangster |
| script | Jimmy Sangster Michael Syson |
| production | Jimmy Sangster for Hammer Films |
| music | John McCabe |
| camera | Arthur Grant |
| cut | Peter Weatherly |
| occupation | |
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The Fear - Fear in the Night (Original title: Fear in the Night , Alternative title: The House of Fear and fear at night ) is a British horror - thriller from the year 1972 , that of Jimmy Sangster for Hammer Films produced. Sangster also directed and wrote the script. The leading roles were played by Peter Cushing , Judy Geeson , Joan Collins and Ralph Bates .
action
In the opening credits, the camera moves over the grounds of an old boys' school . You can hear a school choir singing. The camera stops at a tree where a person who cannot be identified for the time being has been hanged . Then the real action begins.
London-based teacher Peggy Heller, 22, has just recovered from a nervous breakdown . Her husband Robert works as a teacher at a boys' school in the country, where Peggy will now also teach. One evening, after talking to her housekeeper, Mrs. Beamish, Peggy gets a call from Roger. While she is on the phone, a figure dressed in black sneaks into the house. Peggy hears a noise and goes into the bathroom to check. Suddenly she is attacked and strangled from behind by the figure. With the last of her strength, Peggy manages to pull out a prosthetic arm from her attacker before she faints.
When Peggy wakes up, she sees Mrs. Beamish and a doctor in front of her. Mrs. Beamish says she found her passed out on the floor. Peggy tells about the attacker, but they don't believe her. They believe that Peggy has still not fully recovered and is paranoid .
The next day Peggy drives to the boys' school with Roger. He tells her that the school - although it looks very old - was only built about 60 years ago and that there was a bad fire there a few years ago. He also encourages Peggy by telling her about the students, whom she is sure to find very pretty. Finally, he mentions his good friend Michael Carmichael, the headmaster of the school, who lives here with his wife Molly. When they arrive, Roger leads Peggy through the school. Then he shows her her new apartment.
During the night Roger wakes up and notices that Peggy is not lying next to him. He looks for her and finally finds her watching the school from the window. She says she saw someone standing in the window. Paul calms her down and tells her that she may have seen Michael because he often roams through the school at night.
The next day Roger has to go into town, which is why Peggy has enough time to explore the school again. As she walks through the empty corridors, she hears students talking, but nobody is in sight. As she passed the dining room, she heard the clatter of cutlery and voices talking in confusion, even though the dining room was empty. In the dining room she sees a picture of Michael. Shortly afterwards she meets this one. He gives her a warm welcome, guides her through the school, shows her a collection of various knots, including a noose , and compliments her. He is particularly enthusiastic about her hair, which is why he asks her to open her hair band. When you open the headband you can see that Michael has a prosthetic arm. But Peggy doesn't seem to notice.
When Peggy has returned to her apartment, she is surprised again by the one-armed man and strangled and passes out. When she wakes up, she lies in bed and Roger leans over her in concern. Peggy tells again about her attacker, but Roger doesn't want to believe her either and wants to make it clear to her that she suffers from delusions. Peggy refuses to admit this.
The next day, Roger drives into the woods with Peggy. Peggy spots a rifle on the seat back. Roger tells her that it belonged to Michael and that he often goes hunting. Peggy discovers a rabbit in the woods. Peggy says hello, whereupon the rabbit is shot in front of her eyes. The shooter was Molly, who advises Peggy to be more careful, as she too could have been hit. Peggy is stunned. Then comes Roger, who also corrects Molly, but Molly takes the blame.
Molly later pays Peggy a visit. Peggy notices that Molly is not very friendly towards her, as Molly indirectly makes it clear to her that she does not belong here. Molly says she always wanted to live in the country. Finally, Molly says goodbye, but leaves the dead rabbit behind for Peggy to have a roast for Sunday. Later Peggy tells Paul about Molly's behavior towards her.
One day Paul has to go into town to represent Michael at a convention. He leaves the rifle for Peggy so she can defend herself in case someone really attacks her. When Peggy is alone in her apartment, she suddenly has the feeling that someone is still there. She arms herself with the rifle and goes into the living room to see. She turns on the light and sees the man with the prosthetic arm. She realizes it's Michael and shoots him. Then she runs out of the house screaming and goes into the school building. From the door she sees that Michael gets up again and follows her. She runs through the school looking for help. She follows the voices of the students, but finds no one and hides behind a chest of drawers. Michael is getting closer and closer. Peggy shoots him in the face, but Michael is not injured, only his glasses crack. Michael continues to walk towards Peggy.
Roger comes back later. When he can't find Peggy in the house, he looks for her in the school building, where he finally finds her. Her face is blank. When Roger asks her what happened, she says emotionlessly that she doesn't know. Roger discovers a pool of blood on the floor. Peggy protests that she doesn't know about it. Both go back to their apartment. There is also a pool of blood at the place where Michael was shot by Peggy. Roger asks Peggy where Michael is and if she shot him. Again Peggy has no answer. Roger searches for Michael's body on the school grounds. He is being watched by Peggy. He later tells Peggy the truth about Michael. In reality, the school has not been taught for a number of years, since several students were killed in a fire. Michael tried to save her. He failed and was badly burned. Roger met him in the hospital, where they both became good friends. However, after Michael recovered, he began to pretend he was still the principal of the school. He teaches and eats together with the imaginary students and plays recordings of the lessons and other things, which also explains the voices Peggy heard.
Roger goes to Molly. It is learned that Roger and Molly are having an affair and that they have both planned to use Peggy to kill Michael. Both are now desperate because they do not know whether their plan has worked because there is no trace of Michael to be found. They decide to enlighten Peggy and then squeeze her. They get Peggy and tell her about their plan and that Michael didn’t sneak into her house to strangle her, but that they took turns dressing up to drive Peggy crazy. They wanted to get Peggy to kill Michael as soon as she realizes that he is wearing a prosthetic arm. Then they can inherit his money. No one would believe Peggy and she would be admitted to a mental hospital. Peggy is horrified. Roger and Michael try to find out where Michael is from her. Peggy is silent.
Molly disappears after a while without a trace. Roger continues to question Peggy when suddenly Michael's voice comes from the loudspeaker and says that he had known about Roger's affair with Molly all along and that he was in the room. Roger asks Michael to show himself. He armed himself with the rifle and looked for Michael, who must be behind one of the furniture covered with white cloths. Michael, however, is playing a deadly game with Roger. He reveals why he wasn't wounded when Peggy shot him. He had loaded the rifle with blank cartridges. He used the blood of the dead rabbit in Peggy's refrigerator to make it look like he'd been shot. Roger loads the rifle with live ammunition. He discovers an armchair in which someone is sitting under the cloth. Roger shoots at the chair and is confident of victory when blood runs from the cloth. Roger removes the cloth and is horrified to find that he shot Molly, not Michael, who was tied up and gagged on the armchair. Roger gets mad, knocks over all the furniture, takes the noose from the knot collection and runs outside with the distraught Peggy, who had to watch everything. Roger wants to hang Peggy from a tree, but is overwhelmed by Michael from behind.
In the end, two police officers investigate the school. When they find Peggy, they ask her where Michael is. She replies that he is teaching. The police are confused because the school is empty. To their even greater surprise, they also hear a school choir sing. Then the tracking shot from the opening credits is repeated. You can now see that the person hanging on the tree is Roger.
criticism
The lexicon of international films praised the cinematic aspects, but was not impressed with the content: “Technically above-average, but very confused thriller from the Hammer production, which became famous in the 1970s for its horror films. Some exciting moments alternate with lengths and brutal scenes, which are characteristic of the change taking place at that time towards an increasingly speculative naturalism. "
Hal Erickson called the work a standard themed melodrama.
background
The UK theatrical release of The Fear was on July 9, 1972. In the US, the film only opened in cinemas in October 1974, where it ran as a double feature together with Peter Sykes ' Demons of the Soul (1972).
Publications
The Fear was released in Germany by the GL label under the title The Fear on VHS . On December 20, 2009 it was released on DVD by the PK Movies label under the title The Fear - Angst in der Nacht in a small hard box with two different cover variants . The original British poster was used for cover variant A and the Italian poster of the film was used for cover variant B.
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Fear. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/62470/Fear-in-the-Night/overview#readerReviews
- ↑ Information on theatrical release in the Internet Movie Database
- ^ Entry on GL's German VHS in the online film database
- ↑ Original British poster of the film on blogspot.com
- ^ Entry for the German DVD by PK Movies (Cover A) in the online film database
- ↑ Italian poster of the film on wordpress.com
- ^ Entry on the German DVD by PK Movies (Cover B) in the online film database
Web links
- The Fear - fear of the night in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Fear in the online movie database