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- 1961
- Approved
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 21 m
- 1961
- Approved
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 21 m
Summary A wheelchair-bound young woman returns to her father's estate after ten years, and although she's told he's away, she keeps seeing his dead body on the estate.
Directed By: Seth Holt
Written By: Jimmy Sangster
- 1961
- Approved
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 21 m
- 1961
- Approved
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 21 m
Scream of Fear
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Summary A wheelchair-bound young woman returns to her father's estate after ten years, and although she's told he's away, she keeps seeing his dead body on the estate.
Directed By: Seth Holt
Written By: Jimmy Sangster
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 5 Critic Reviews
65
80% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
0% Mixed
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
20% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Full of mysterious twists and turns, this expertly crafted thriller casts Strasberg as the wheelchair-bound step-daughter of Todd.
Strasberg’s doe-eyed dedication to her role and Douglas Slocombe’s brilliant black-and-white cinematography counterbalance the film’s increasingly ridiculous plot turns, which nonetheless have a crude, jaw-dropper effectiveness.
Though clearly influenced by Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 Psycho, Scream of Fear is closer to Orson Welles in its baroque visual design and delight in style for style's sake. [21 Oct 2008, p.C4]
The plot is nicked from Henri-Georges Clouzot's Les Diaboliques, full of guttering candles, bumps in the night, and the kind of little shocks you hate yourself for jumping at. [08 Nov 2008, p.53]
No thrill, no suspense, no direction, bad in every way. [31 Aug 1961, p.8]
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