UK, 10 March 1990
75m
16mm film, colour, 4:3
stereo, English
Series: Screen Two (1985-1998) – series 6, episode 10
A British fantasy television film directed by Terry Johnson.
Plot Summary
While on holiday staying in the Welsh boarding house The Lorelei, teacher Kate is startled by a dishevelled man who stumbles into her room late one night, exclaims “Oh my God!” then promptly vanishes. Back in London she meets the man’s doppelganger and begins an affair that will end in tragedy.
Credits
Crew
Directed by: Terry Johnson
BBC Pebble Mill © MCMLXXXIX [1989]
Produced by: Robert Cooper
[Written] By: Nick Dunning
Script Editor: Hilary Salmon
Photography: Steve Saunderson
Film Editor: Dawn Mears
Original Music: Alan Brown
Film Recordist: Roger Slater
Costume Designer: Kathryn Ayerst
Make-up Designer: Maggie Thomas
Visual Effects Designer: Colin Gorry
Designer: Gavin Davies
Cast
Amanda Redman (Kate)
Michael Maloney (Tony)
Ellie Haddington (Helen)
John Nettleton (Mr Walker)
Iola Gregory (Mrs Walker)
Isabelle Lucas (headmistress)
Michael Eaves (Mike Frost)
Terence Booth (Jim)
Barbara Keogh (old woman)
Simon Davison (Stuart)
Bruce Savage (Roger)
Michelle McQuade (Christine)
Michelle Mathieu (Julie)
Occy Williams, Albert Owen, Edward Jones (Welsh farmers)
References
Books
- English Gothic: A Century of Horror Cinema by Jonathan Rigby p.363
