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Fear in the Night (1972 film)

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727:'s hair signified his virility, so too does Mélisande's hair stand for her sexual allure. Thus, when Carmichael unties Peggy's hair band, we are intended to interpret the act as a form of sublimated rape— at least that is the implication at this stage in the plot. It also gives Sangster an opportunity to reveal Carmichael's prosthetic arm, which he threateningly clicks into position to hold one end of the ribbon while he unties the knot with his other hand. Carmichael does indeed seem to be the man who attacked Peggy in London, but things are never so obvious in a Sangster script. 353:. She descends the staircase and sees Michael entering the front door; she notices that he has a prosthetic arm. Panicked, she shoots him and flees the chalet, but he continues to pursue her. She runs into the school, where she hears a chorus of racket and boys' voices echoing through the halls. Michael corners her in an upstairs dormitory, and she shoots at him again, but he is unresponsive to the gunfire. He approaches her, and she faints. 2727: 365:
Molly goes to search for him, and shortly after, the sound of bells echoes throughout the school. Robert binds Peggy's arms and brings her into the main hall of the school, where Michael's voice comes over the intercom. He reveals that he was aware of Robert and Molly's plot to have him killed and that he had loaded the shotgun in the chalet with
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Michael, who shows her around the building; she leaves him in the school and returns to her cottage. Shortly after entering her house, she is again attacked. Robert returns and is very concerned about Peggy's mental state; although Peggy insists that she was attacked, he doesn't believe her. He cancels the dinner appointment with the Carmichaels.
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Robert storms out of the school with Peggy and attempts to hang her from the tree outside in a staged suicide but is suddenly grabbed in a strangle grip by Michael. The next morning, two policemen arrive, saying they received a call from Michael. Peggy tells them he's inside the school and that a new
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across the road from the main school building. They make plans to meet the Carmichaels for dinner that evening. The next day, Robert leaves for work. Peggy explores the empty school; she hears the voices of boys chatting but finds the classrooms to be mysteriously empty. She encounters the headmaster
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starts with a pan across a field, as leaves blow across it. We then see the abandoned school that is the film's central setting, and experience a feeling of isolation and foreboding. Then the soundtrack broadcasts eerie singsongy young voices lifted in song, as the camera probes the gym, the dining
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Dave Sindelar of SciFilm.org praised the film's performances, but criticized elements of its script, saying: "Unfortunately, it's at the service of one of the most predictable scripts I've encountered in some time, and this is one of those stories that should be anything but predictable", comparing
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state inside the school and a pool of blood in the hallway. Michael is nowhere to be found. He questions her about what happened, but she says she cannot remember. Robert explains to Peggy that he had met Michael when he was working in a hospital as a medical student; the boarding school had nearly
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gave the film a middling review, calling it "a brave attempt by Hammer to go in a new direction but ultimately fails because even in 1972, the plot twists weren’t new or original in the slightest. It's entertaining enough if you want to stick it out but it will never be regarded as one of Hammer’s
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That night, Robert meets with Molly in the school; it is revealed that the two are having an affair and that Robert married the mentally fragile Peggy in order to coax her into murdering Michael out of fear for her life. Robert brings in Peggy, and Molly demands she reveal where Michael's body is.
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called the film "one of those neatly constructed but slightly mechanical psycho-thrillers which make you feel as if someone is pushing buttons connected to electrodes in your brain", but that "Hammer fans will soon recognise the plot as a thinly disguised reworking of
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burned to the ground in an accident years prior, and, devastated, Michael returned to the property, setting up recordings of boys' laughter and classroom lectures over the building's intercoms to re-create the feeling of the school's former glory days.
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term is beginning. One of the police officers tells her that the school has been shut down for years, but suddenly, the sound of a boys' choir begins emanating from the building. In the tree behind the school, Robert's dead body hangs from the noose.
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figure is still there in the form of Joan Collins' Molly Carmichael," Huckvale says. "Peggy sees the heartless Molly shoot a cute little rabbit. Molly is a brutal, catlike character, and her superficial smile collapses when Peggy and Robert leave."
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at Hammer studios conceived the pairing as a marketing tool, stating: "My original concept was to have two properties by the same author on a central theme, being made into two films both directed by the same person."
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retrospectively rated the film 6 out of 10 stars, saying: "Fear in the Night did nothing to improve 's fortunes, but it received fair reviews and those who did see it found it satisfying, if a shade modest."
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Huckvale also draws comparisons on the character of Molly Carmichael (Joan Collins) as a catalyst to Peggy's purported hysteria, likening her to the unnamed wife of Maximilian de Winter in
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is a view of a hanging corpse. It's an artistic, interesting way to set the scene for the story proper, but the film never again recovers from the icy, morbid impression of its opening.
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and falls unconscious. Rattled by the attack, she leaves with Robert the following morning to the boarding school, which is run by headmaster Michael Carmichael.
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Clarke, Frederick S. (1972). "FEAR IN THE NIGHT is a forthcoming suspense - thriller from Hammer Films starring Judy Geeson, Peter Cushing and Ralph Bates".
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Huckvale's interpretation of the scene between Peggy (Judy Geeson) and Headmaster Carmichael (Peter Cushing), during which he removes her hair-tie, as a
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in 1963. The film had been scheduled to go into production several times: first in autumn 1964, then "tentatively" in 1965. In 1967 he retitled the film
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depends on Peggy's vulnerability caused by trauma, and much of the film's dramatic tension is built upon her anxiety that the past is
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room, the bunk room... It's a strange tour of a seemingly haunted or perhaps cursed place, and the (effective) punctuation of the
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for his work. The night before she is to meet Robert to leave the city, she is attacked in her home by a one-armed man with a
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Later, Peggy and Robert go for a drive around the sprawling property, where they meet the headmaster's wife, Molly, who is
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announced in 2019 that they will be releasing a Blu-ray edition in North America on 27 August 2019.
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as part of their "Hammer Collection" series. It was later released in the United Kingdom on DVD by
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where her husband has taken a job, finds herself being tormented by a mysterious figure with a
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for sexual violation, echoing John David Muir's claim of the film's sexual undercurrents:
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was paired with upon its British theatrical release, contains similar themes of
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was used for the location of the boys' school. Additional filming took place at
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Commenting on the film's establishing cinematography, Muir further states:
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as a psychologically-fragile woman who, upon relocating to a rural
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in the United States on 18 October 1972, in conjunction with the
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Uneasy Dreams: The Golden Age of British Horror Films, 1956-1976
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Hearn, Marcus; Barnes, Alan (September 2007). "Taste of Fear".
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The film later premiered as a double bill with the Hammer film
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was released in the United Kingdom on 9 July 1972, shown as a
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The following day, Robert returns, finding Peggy in a nearly
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Robert and Peggy arrive at the school and settle into their
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Rungs on a Ladder: Hammer Films Seen Through a Soft Gauze
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The Hammer Story: The Authorised History of Hammer Films
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derived from a script written by Jimmy Sangster called
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Index


Jimmy Sangster
Judy Geeson
Joan Collins
Peter Cushing
Ralph Bates
Peter Weatherley
Hammer Films
British
psychological horror
Jimmy Sangster
Hammer Film Productions
Judy Geeson
boarding school
prosthetic arm
Peter Cushing
Joan Collins
female hysteria
motif
double bill
Straight on Till Morning
Demons of the Mind
caregiver
boarding school
London
prosthetic hand
chalet
rabbit hunting
shotgun
catatonic

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