A Child’s Voice (1978)

Ireland, 1978
30m
film, colour
mono, English

A short Irish horror film directed by Kieran Hickey.

Plot Summary

A radio writer is terrorised by the disembodied voice of a ghostly child.

Credits

Crew
Director: Kieran Hickey
B.A.C. Films Ltd.
Producer: Roland Hill
Script: David Thompson
Director of Photography: Sean Corcoran
Editor: Patrick J Duffner
Sound Recordist: Patrick Johns

Cast
TP McKenna (Ainsley Rupert Macreadie)
RD Smith (producer’s assistant)
June Toibin (voice of child)
Stephen Brennan (producer)
Valentine Dyall (narrator)

References

Books

  • English Gothic: A Century of Horror Cinema by Jonathan Rigby p.273
  • Horror and Science Fiction Films II by Donald C. Willis p.58
  • The Irish Filmography: Fiction Films, 1896-1996 by Kevin Rockett (ed.) p.28