Fear in the Night (1972)

PG07/09/1972Mystery, Thriller, Horror1h 34m
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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?

Top Billed Cast

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    Joan Collins

    Molly Carmichael

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    Peter Cushing

    Michael Carmichael

  3. Cast 1

    Judy Geeson

    Peggy Heller

  4. Cast 1

    Ralph Bates

    Robert Heller

  5. Cast 1

    James Cossins

    The Doctor

  6. Cast 1

    Gillian Lind

    Mrs. Beamish

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    Brian Grellis

    2nd Policeman

  8. John Bown

    1st Policeman

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 o...

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