West Germany, 1982
88m (UK), 92m, 2523 metres
35mm film, colour, 1.85:1
mono, German
A German borderline horror film directed by Eckhart Schmidt.
Plot Summary
Simone worships the pop singer ‘R’ and is horrified when she finally meets him and learns that, not surprisingly, her feelings are reciprocated. She is driven into a murderous ‘trance’ as she tries to get closer to the object of her desire.
Credits
Crew
Directed by: Eckhart Schmidt
A Barbara Moorse Workshop production
Producers: Barbara Moorse, Martin Moszkowicz
Written by: Eckhart Schmidt
Director of Photography: Bernd Heinl
Editor: Patricia Rommel, Raoul Sternberg [real name: Eckhart Schmidt] [not credited on English language prints]
Music: Rheingold
Costume Design: Kiki Moorse
Make-up: Ingrid Saal
Special Effects Make-up: Colin Arthur
Art Director: Jörg Neumann
Locations: FSM, Unterföhring, Bavaria, Germany [not credited on English language prints]; Munich, Bavaria, Germany [not credited on English language prints]; Ulm, Baden-Württemberg, Germany [not credited on English language prints]
Location Manager: Frank Dragun [not credited on English language prints]
Unit Manager: Eric Moss
Stunts: Michael S. Walter [not credited on English language prints]
Casting: Isi ter Jung [not credited on English language prints]
Cast
Désirée Nosbusch (Simone)
Bodo Steiger (‘R’)
Joachim Fuchsberger
Joan Orleans
Christian Simon
Tommy Fuchsberger
[the following are not credited on English language prints]
Simone Brahmann (secretary)
Jonas Vischer (father)
Helga Tölle (mother)
Klaus Münster (postman)
Ian Moorse (youth)
Wilfried Blasberg
Sabine Kueckelmann (B)
Claudia Schumann (girl)
Nikolai Hoffmann (manager)
Michael Fluehme (promoter)
Oliver Betz (Popper)
Doro Hilzinger (girl)
Alternative Titles
Blood Groupie – UK (video)
Trance
References
Periodicals
- Screen International no.231 (8-15 March 1980) p.43 – credits (Filming in US)
- Screen International no.234 (29 March-5 April 1980) p.6 note (Filmways picks up ‘The Fan’)
Books
- Euro Gothic: Classics of Continental Horror Cinema by Jonathan Rigby pp.389, 390
- Film Review 1981-1982 by F. Maurice Speed (ed.) p.151
- Horror Films of the 1980s by John Kenneth Muir pp.155-157 – credits, synopsis, review
- Horror Films of the 1990s by John Kenneth Muir pp.440-442
