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La Peur

Original title: Fright
  • 1971
  • PG
  • 1h 27m
IMDb RATING
5.8/10
2.4K
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Susan George in La Peur (1971)
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A babysitter is terrorized by the child's father, escaped from an asylum.A babysitter is terrorized by the child's father, escaped from an asylum.A babysitter is terrorized by the child's father, escaped from an asylum.

  • Director
    • Peter Collinson
  • Writer
    • Tudor Gates
  • Stars
    • Honor Blackman
    • Susan George
    • George Cole
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.8/10
    2.4K
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    • Director
      • Peter Collinson
    • Writer
      • Tudor Gates
    • Stars
      • Honor Blackman
      • Susan George
      • George Cole
    • 52User reviews
    • 47Critic reviews
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    Honor Blackman
    Honor Blackman
    • Helen Lloyd
    Susan George
    Susan George
    • Amanda
    George Cole
    George Cole
    • Jim Lloyd
    Tara Collinson
    • Tara
    Dennis Waterman
    Dennis Waterman
    • Chris
    Ian Bannen
    Ian Bannen
    • Brian Halston
    John Gregson
    John Gregson
    • Dr. Gareth Cordell
    Maurice Kaufmann
    Maurice Kaufmann
    • Inspector
    • (as Maurice Kaufman)
    Michael Brennan
    • Sergeant
    Roger Lloyd Pack
    Roger Lloyd Pack
    • Constable
    Lewis Alexander
    • Man in Restaurant
    • (uncredited)
    Aileen Lewis
    • Woman in Restaurant
    • (uncredited)
    Frank Maher
    • Plainclothes Policeman With Revolver
    • (uncredited)
    Brook Williams
    • Victim on Television
    • (archive footage)
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Peter Collinson
    • Writer
      • Tudor Gates
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    6whpratt1

    Susan George was Outstanding

    Enjoyed this British film with Susan George, (Amanda), "The Strange Affair", who plays the role of a young gal attending college and taking on a babysitting job way out in the country and walking all by herself after getting off a bus. The house where Amanda is to babysit is very old and their is a little boy she is to take care of while his mom and dad go out to dine. Amanda has a visit from her boyfriend who attempts to make love to her and starts to almost get to first base when the telephone starts to ring. Susan George gives a great performance through out the entire picture and it truly shows the great talent she had during her early years of stardom. If you like Susan George when she was young, pretty and sexy, this is the film for you. Enjoy.
    8Axiom-2

    Good Scary Film

    This movie scared the crap out of me when I first saw it as young teenager.

    Susan George was really good in as the babysitter (Amanda). She is terrorized by the baby's estranged father. This movie has a really creepy feeling to it. It was filmed in England, and most of the really old houses there just seem to have that eerie look about them. This is a movie worth checking out......
    8Nightman85

    Bumps in the night.

    Looking for a dark, moody, even solemn movie? Give this one a turn. Fright is a thriller that relies more on sheer spookiness than out-and-out action.

    Young Amanda is left alone to baby sit at a house in rural England. In the dead of night everything seems to put her on edge; noises outside the windows, a light bulb goes out, the creaking of the old house. Amanda tries to tell herself she is only being a chicken about it all, but what if there really is someone outside? What would she do-- if there was a knock at the door or a pale face peering through the window? That's just what she'll find out.

    The title of this film turns out to be quite fitting as Fright grows from spooky atmosphere to intense suspense and finally a dramatic conclusion that's almost saddening. Collinson's direction is splendidly tight and builds to tremendous tension. Kudos go to a great cast, a haunting theme song, and to writer Tudor Gates for being the first to come up with the babysitter vs. madman thriller.

    A dark film if there ever was one, Fright is a powerful and atmospheric thriller that should please anyone seeking some good chills without gory violence.

    *** out of ****
    5lost-in-limbo

    "You could make a horror film in here".

    You might call this a slasher prototype (since it resembles something of "Halloween" and "When A Stranger Calls"), as your generic staples are there and in full flight. However it's not terribly successful in making it totally effective, but anything with Honor Blackman and the lovely Susan George in a short purple skirt has got to be worth your time. Of course! Being a very minimal production, the Gothic set-pieces are tight and the story quite simple-minded (babysitter terrorised by a escaped homicidal lunatic who returns to his family home for one night), where its all about hysteria and claustrophobic tension in a forlorn staging. The main problem it was just too uneven. Good uneasy first half, let down by a weak, bloated second half. Some plastered jolts, and atmospheric touches worked (mainly those vivid sound effects), but definitely there were moments that didn't have much impact, and fell in the risible bracket. Not helping was the script completely plods along. Peter Collinson's terse direction, along with Ian Wilson's skillful cinematography and Harry Robertson's whimsically edgy musical score build upon the creaky, and moody old-school atmosphere. The dark, gloomy isolated house (you cant go wrong there!) is well-used in many of the set-ups, and they achieve many unique placements (reflections to silhouettes) with the characters. Collinson's framing is first-rate. A busty Susan George (who gets some scenes with her bra-exposed) is superb in her well-rounded performance of conveying the frightening despair that basically overwhelms her. On the other hand Ian Bannen's spaced out, muttering psychotic loony was a bit hit-and-miss. Honor Blackman scores points as the up-tight mother. George Cole, John Gregson and Dennis Waterman provide sturdy support. Passable little horror flick.
    5BA_Harrison

    Great cast in average British 70s thriller.

    Susan George seemed to have spent a large part of 1971 being terrorised in rural houses by maniacs; in Straw Dogs she suffered violence at the hands of vicious country yokels and in Fright she is threatened by an escaped lunatic with murder on his mind.

    Unfortunately, despite a great cast including George Cole, Honor Blackman and Dennis Waterman, and direction from Peter Collinson (who gave us the classic The Italian Job) this somewhat tedious thriller/horror rarely manages to be anything more than average.

    Susan George (looking a lot like Sarah Michelle Gellar to me — only much sexier) is great as Amanda, the babysitter who must protect baby Tara when his homicidal father drops by for a visit; she convincingly portrays the terror of the situation (whilst simultaneously looking great in a very short dress), but even her performance cannot save the film; the histrionics in the latter part of the film undermine all that goes before and the finale, in which Amanda exacts revenge on the killer, is quite ridiculous.

    Director Collinson manages a few nice touches (I particularly liked the intercutting between Susan George and Honor Blackman to show how the maniac was unable to discern between the two women), but the tension of the housebound action is dissipated by some dreadfully dull scenes set in a nearby restaurant and the local police station.

    With a little more action, a bit less talk and maybe one or two more deaths, this could have been a classic little chiller — as it stands, it is just another so-so horror film which is unlikely to cause anyone sleepless nights.

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    • Trivia
      Among horror fans this film is considered the first film to come up with the popular horror convention of a lone babysitter terrorized by a psychotic murderer.
    • Goofs
      At the house it is always dark (night-time) but when Helen and Jim rush from the pub to the house there is daylight.
    • Quotes

      Inspector: How do you spell that word, "psychotic"?

      Dr. Cordell: You may have to spell it M-U-R-D-E-R, murder, if you don't get someone over there quickly!

    • Connections
      Featured in Grindhouse Universe (2008)
    • Soundtracks
      Ladybird
      Music by Harry Robertson (uncredited)

      Words by Bob Barratt

      Sung by Nanette

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    • Release date
      • October 1971 (United Kingdom)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • I'm Alone and I'm Scared
    • Filming locations
      • Shepperton Studios, Shepperton, Surrey, England, UK(Studio)
    • Production company
      • Fantale Films
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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $169,246
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 27m(87 min)
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.66 : 1

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