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Cauchemar

Original title: No Place to Hide
  • TV Movie
  • 1981
  • 1h 40m
IMDb RATING
6.2/10
411
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Cauchemar (1981)
DramaHorrorMysteryThriller

Amy is the Mannings only daughter. After the death of her rich father, she lives together with her stepmother. Recently she sees a man in black following her, waiting for her in her car, wan... Read allAmy is the Mannings only daughter. After the death of her rich father, she lives together with her stepmother. Recently she sees a man in black following her, waiting for her in her car, wanting to kill her. The police can't help her. But who is this man in black? Is it the stran... Read allAmy is the Mannings only daughter. After the death of her rich father, she lives together with her stepmother. Recently she sees a man in black following her, waiting for her in her car, wanting to kill her. The police can't help her. But who is this man in black? Is it the strange young man whom she recently dated? Or the psychologist her mother told her to visit? Or... Read all

  • Director
    • John Llewellyn Moxey
  • Writers
    • Jimmy Sangster
    • Harriet Steinberg
  • Stars
    • Mariette Hartley
    • Kathleen Beller
    • Arlen Dean Snyder
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    6.2/10
    411
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • John Llewellyn Moxey
    • Writers
      • Jimmy Sangster
      • Harriet Steinberg
    • Stars
      • Mariette Hartley
      • Kathleen Beller
      • Arlen Dean Snyder
    • 18User reviews
    • 6Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Mariette Hartley
    Mariette Hartley
    • Adele Manning
    Kathleen Beller
    Kathleen Beller
    • Amy Manning
    Arlen Dean Snyder
    Arlen Dean Snyder
    • James Stockwood
    Gary Graham
    Gary Graham
    • David Norland
    Keir Dullea
    Keir Dullea
    • Cliff Letterman
    Sandy McPeak
    Sandy McPeak
    • Sergeant Newman
    Milton Selzer
    Milton Selzer
    • Florist
    Brad M. Bucklin
    Brad M. Bucklin
    • Driver
    • (as Brad Bucklin)
    Carles Cleveland
    • Ralph
    Anne Gerety
    • Emily
    Marc Handler
    Marc Handler
    • Young Man #1
    Roy E. Harrison
    • Young Man #2
    Michael Hoit
    • Art Student
    Vicky Perry
    • James' Secretary
    • Director
      • John Llewellyn Moxey
    • Writers
      • Jimmy Sangster
      • Harriet Steinberg
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    User reviews18

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    7meathookcinema

    Very good made for TV horror flick

    Amy leaves her art class late at night and goes to her car. However, she then finds a man dressed all in black resplendent with a black balaclava and shades waiting for her in her backseat. She gets away but isn't taken seriously by the police when she goes to report the incident. Apparently the same man has been following her on previous occasions but has always gotten away. The police think she is a crank and that this mysterious man who is threatening and stalking her is a figment of her imagination.

    Soon afterwards she receives a funeral wreath from the same man. Realising that this is the first tangible piece of evidence that there is that in fact someone stalking her, she goes with her stepmother to the florists to ask who placed the order and what he looked like. The florist is amused as he says that it was her, Amy who walked in and placed the order just hours earlier.

    Is Amy mad? Or is there really a man stalking and threatening to kill her?

    No Place To Hide is another example of an excellent made for TV horror movie. Tense, suspenseful and very well written not to mention perfectly acted.

    In fact it has so many twists and turns that it would make a great episode of either Tales of the Unexpected or Thriller.
    5Platypuschow

    No Place to Hide: Interesting enough thriller

    I went in expecting a horror again, my bad!

    This early 80's thriller is a passable affair and though it's fairly well written it lacks in too many places to truly be memorable.

    No Place to Hide tells the story of a girl who repeatedly see's a balaclava and dark glasses wearing man who seems to be stalking her. However is he real? Or is he as everyone around her believes, a figment of her fragile mind?

    The film actually has a few good ideas and though can be accused of a lot of things it can't be accused of being predictible as I certainly didn't see the finale coming.

    It suffers badly from many tropes of its time but I can confidently say that this isn't a bad film, it's just a bit uninspired and tedious.

    The Good:

    Some good twists

    Well written

    The Bad:

    Quite generic

    Things I Learnt From This Movie:

    Jason, Michael, Freddy, Pinhead and even Leprechaun have nothing to fear from our balaclava wearing friend, there will be no sequel here
    10liderc

    Wonderful!

    This thriller really captures you! The main actress (Kathleen Beller) is very good and gives depth to her character, as does Mariette Hartley, who portrais the breakdown of her character well. The music does one of the main jobs to create the strange athmosphere of mystery one can't escape from.
    8blanche-2

    Surprisingly good

    Kathleen Beller made a couple of very good suspensers back in the '80s. This was one - also known as "Soon, Amy, Soon" (at least I think so) - I saw this when it first aired and just caught part of it again recently. It's great fun, about a young heiress being stalked by a man in a ski mask. However, he never seems to be around when she tells someone about it, so everyone comes to the conclusion that she's delusional. This includes her stepmother (Mariette Hartley) and her psychiatrist (Keir Dullea).

    There are a couple of neat twists in this, and the viewer will remain interested throughout thanks to the good script and the fast-paced direction by John Llewellyn Moxey, an old pro.

    "No Place to Hide" is a great flick to see some cold wintry evening - one often sits down to watch a suspense or mystery movie only to be disappointed - you won't be this time.
    Roddy-15

    This movie is scary and full of twists!

    I saw this movie by mistake on a Saturday morning. Before I knew it, I couldn't stop watching it.

    Hard to believe this is only a made-for-television movie. It was scarier than many of the horror movies I have seen in theaters.

    The movie begins when an art student named Amy leaves her university and soon discovers that there is a man wearing a ski-mask on the back of her car. Soon you will find out Amy has seen this man before but no one believes she has.

    The movie has a simple plot line: Amy is being stalked by a psychopath. But the simple plot has more twists than you can imagine.

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    • Trivia
      In an interview, Mariette Hartley confessed that her love scenes with Keir Dullea were so steamy that at the end of each day of filming, Hartley would go home and "transfer those affections" to her husband. On the last day of shooting, when Hartley came home, her husband said, "You know, I'm going to miss Keir."
    • Goofs
      After Adele meets with Cliff, he tells her to call James and say that Amy has disappeared. This can't be because earlier the phone line was cut.
    • Quotes

      Psychopathic stalker: Soon Amy, soon

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    Details

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    • Release date
      • March 4, 1981 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • No Place to Hide
    • Filming locations
      • Murphy Sculpture Garden - 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, UCLA, Westwood, Los Angeles, California, USA(Amy Manning walks with Cliff Letterman near the sculptures.)
    • Production company
      • Metromedia Producers Corporation (MPC)
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 40m(100 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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