UK, 1983
91m
35mm film, colour
mono, English
Reviewed at The EOFFTV Review
A British anthology horror film directed by Stanley A. Long using the pseudonym Al Beresford. It is made up of three short films directed by Long edited together with a new framing story.
Plot Summary
A compilation of three short stories: in the first, a Punch and Judy man is menaced by his homicidal Punch doll. In the second, a newlywed couple are haunted by strange events at their new home; while the third finds a handyman discovering that not only do the fairies exist, but they're a rather nasty bunch to boot.
Credits
* = uncredited
Crew
Directed by: Al Beresford [real name: Stanley A. Long]
[© not given on screen]
Alpha Films *
Produced by: Al Beresford [real name: Stanley A. Long]
Production Managers: Brian Bilgorri, Hugh O'Donnell
Screenplay by: Michael Armstrong
Asst. Directors: Tony Dyer, Rex Piano, Paul Tivers
Photography: Don Lord, Alan Pudney, Mike Spera
Asst. Cameramen: Mike Connor, Dale Denning, Marc Garroni, Dave Lawrence
Loader: Frank Bigg
Gaffers: Len Duncan, John Foster, Les Wiggins
Post Production: John Bevan Industrial Video Productions
Colour Processing: Rank Laboratories, Denham
Music: KPM
Sound Mixers: Gene DeFever, Stan Phillips, David Stevenson
Boom Operators: Keith Batten, Charlie McFadden, Mike Tucker
Re-recording: WFS Ltd.
Wardrobe: Ruth Collier, Imogen Magnus
Make-up Created by: Paula Dorf, Sandra Exelby, Beryl Lerman
Special Make-up Effects: Nick Maley for Make Up Effects Ltd.
Special Make Up Effects: Bob Keen *
Art Directors: Adrienne Atkinson, Martin Atkinson, Brian Savegar
Props: William Stark, Dan Evans
Production Secretary: Pauline Stevenson
Production Assts.: John Cassidy, John Gabriel
Asst. to the Producers: Justin Moyle
Filmed entirely on locations in New York and England
Cast
[Framing Story]
Vincent Russo (Ed)
Michael Gordon (Bruce)
Marie Scinto (Marie)
Kevin Smith (shop owner)
[That's the Way to Do It]
Robin Bailey (Jack)
Anne Lynn (Lena)
Johnathan Morris (Damien)
Dione Inman (Suzy)
Boscoe Hogan (doctor)
John Styles (Punch voice)
[Dreamhouse]
Ian Saynor (Tony)
Yvonne Nicholson (Susan)
Lally Bowers (Mrs Kingsley)
Veronica Doran (Miss Burns)
Brenda Kempner (woman)
[Do You Believe in Fairies?]
Dora Bryan (Emma)
Jean Anderson (Mildred)
David Van Day (Gavin)
Matthew Peters (Tim)
Philip Bloomfield (Colin)
Gary Linley (Frank)
Kim Thomson (Lady Anne)
[uncredited cast]
Robert Dorning
Roger Fairhead
Orla Pederson
Brian Croucher
Edward Riseman
Julie Jupp
Karen Seacombe
Clare Davenport
John Skitt
Mick Worsley
Charles Sproggit
Alternative Titles
Kauhun hetket – Finnish title
Screamtime – Die unheimlich verrückte Videostunde – German title
Links
Includes
Do You Believe in Fairies? (1983)
Dreamhouse (1981)
That's the Way to Do It (1982)
References
Books
- English Gothic: A Century of Horror Cinema by Jonathan Rigby pp.272, 324
- The Films of the Eighties by Robert A. Nowlan and Gwendolyn Wright Nowlan p.501
- Horror and Science Fiction Films III by Donald C. Willis p.232
