UK, 1990
92m
35mm film, colour
stereo, English
A British horror film directed by Peter Litten and George Dugdale.
Plot Summary
Howard Adams is a cripplingly shy New York medical student who snatches the body of his recently deceased unrequited love Christine, takes her home and performs a bizarre wedding ceremony. Going even further over the edge, Howard comes to believe that he can hear the corpse urging him on to murder…
Credits
Crew
Directed by: Peter Litten, George Dugdale
A Dick Randall production of a Litten-Dugdale film. A Spectacular production
Executive Producer: Frank Green
Produced by: Dick Randall
Associate Producer: Mark Pollard
Screenplay by: Mark Ezra, George Dugdale
Based on an Original Story by: Paul Hart-Wilden
Director of Photography: Colin Munn
Editor: Jim Connock
Incidental Music by: De Wolfe Ltd.
Sound Mixer: Michael Adelman
Costumes: Lee Scott
Make-Up Artist: Vesna Gregori
Special Effects Make-Up Design: Paul Catling
Special Make-up: David Elsey
Special Effects Facilities: Coast to Coast Productions Ltd.
Production Designer: David Rogers
Filmed at: Studio House, London and on location in London and New York
Cast
Mark Jax (Howard)
Gary Martin (Jess)
Eartha Kitt (Mrs Swartz)
Freddie Earlle (Ed)
Katie Orgill (Christine)
Marcel Grant (Steve)
Jane Rawlins (Pearl)
Alison Jenkins (girl in bar)
Heather Robbins (transvestite)
Sean Aita (night shift worker)
David Taylor (priest)
Tanya Lee (Nurse Lorraine)
Ted Maynard (pathologist)
Mandy Curzon (1st girlfriend)
Alanna Lane (2nd girlfriend)
Katie Orgill, Nicola Turner (dead Christine)
Alternative Titles
Boneca de Carne e Osso – Portugal
Living Doll – Australia
Ziva Ljepotica(Video Title) – Croatia
Живая кукла – Russia
Links
Extracts included in
The Wild, Wild, World of Dick Randall (2005)
References
Periodicals
- Fangoria no.245 (August 2005) pp.79-80 – illustrated DVD review (DVD Dungeon by Michael Gingold)
- Screen International no.681 (3 December 1988) p.21 – credits
- Starburst no.134 (October 1989) p.25 – illustrated review
- Variety 28 March 1990 p.27 – review
Books
- The Aurum Film Encyclopedia: Horror by Phil Hardy (ed.) p.448
- English Gothic: A Century of Horror Cinema by Jonathan Rigby pp.272, 281, 351
- Horror and Science Fiction Films IV by Donald C. Willis p.293
