Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueYoung blind Sarah is staying with relatives in their English countryside manor. An unknown maniac enters the house and murders all of Sarah's relatives. When the culprit realizes that Sarah ... Tout lireYoung blind Sarah is staying with relatives in their English countryside manor. An unknown maniac enters the house and murders all of Sarah's relatives. When the culprit realizes that Sarah is still alive, he pursues her.Young blind Sarah is staying with relatives in their English countryside manor. An unknown maniac enters the house and murders all of Sarah's relatives. When the culprit realizes that Sarah is still alive, he pursues her.
- Prix
- 1 nomination au total
- Pub Landlord
- (uncredited)
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Soon thereafter, Sarah returns from an outing, and goes about her usual routine, not knowing that her loved ones have met with a catastrophic end. Sarah is blind, and can't see the carnage as she navigates through the huge house. The dire circumstances become a nightmare, and Sarah finds herself hunted by a murderer, identified -to the viewer- only by his distinctive footwear.
Director Richard Fleischer keeps us in the dark with Sarah, using the camera to trick and jolt us along with her. SEE NO EVIL is another fantastic thriller for Ms. Farrow. This time, instead of the Devil, she must attempt to flee from an unknown psychopath. Her sightless journey is nerve-jangling and treacherous, loaded with a school of red herrings! This film is for lovers of mystery, suspense, and the cold touch of horror...
Directed by Richard Fleischer, Blind Terror opens with our nutter leaving a cinema (having caught the amazing sounding double-bill of 'The Convent Murders' and 'Rapist Cult'). He then passes a newspaper stand displaying horrific headlines, a store with a display of toy guns, and a TV shop showing a bloodthirsty film; violence, it seems, is all around us, although often we choose not to see it. Poor blind Sarah, on the other hand, doesn't have much of a choice: after the soggy-footed psycho pays a visit to her Uncle's farmhouse (whilst she is out with her boyfriend), she returns home, and prepares for bed, all the while blissfully unaware that the bloody corpses of her nearest and dearest lay all around her.
Only when Sarah eventually tries to get into her bath does she realise that something is terribly wrongbecause that's where her uncle's lifeless body has been dumped! Meanwhile, the killer discovers that he has left behind a vital clue that could reveal his identity, and returns to the farmhouse to find it...
Fleischer's deliberately paced and carefully considered direction (which makes brilliant use of imaginative camera angles and cleverly framed shots), combined with excellent cinematography from Gerry Fisher and a completely convincing central performance from Farrow, ensure that this film is a success despite a few rather contrived moments in an otherwise well-crafted script by Brian Clemens (a case of mistaken identity at the end of the film is rather far-fetched, and the fact that Sandy, Sarah's pretty cousin, would date a 'diddycoy' is also difficult to swallow).
Atmospheric, suspenseful, and packed with nerve-shredding moments, Blind Terror is an under-rated slice of 70s British cinema that, although not perfect, is still well worth seeking out.
7.5 out of 10, rounded up to 8 for IMDb.
Good suspense - sometimes the viewer is a step ahead of the blind woman, other times we are as blind as she is, a great score and good acting by all makes this a wonderful movie for a rainy afternoon. Interesting to see Michael Elphick and a young Paul Nicholas along for the ride too.
Beautifully photographed and directed.
5 out of 5.
Le saviez-vous
- AnecdotesThe movies at the theatre, 'Rapist Cult' and 'The Convent Murders', are fictional creations.
- GaffesSarah drops her boots on the floor after she takes them off. However, as a blind person (even one new to this condition), she would make sure that everything was put away tidily so that it could be found again easily i.e. put her boots standing together next to the cupboard.
- Citations
Gypsy Mother: Tom?
Gypsy Tom: Don't worry, momma. I'll take care of everything.
- ConnexionsFeatured in Cinemacabre TV Trailers (1993)
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Détails
- Date de sortie
- Pays d’origine
- Langue
- Aussi connu sous le nom de
- See No Evil
- Lieux de tournage
- Binfield Manor, Binfield Road, Warfield, Berkshire, Angleterre, Royaume-Uni(Rexton family's country manor)
- sociétés de production
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Box-office
- Brut – États-Unis et Canada
- 1 315 680 $ US
- Durée1 heure 28 minutes
- Mixage
- Rapport de forme
- 1.85 : 1