UK, 1978
100m
35mm film, colour
mono, English
A British horror film directed by Pete Walker.
Plot Summary
Six years after his last performance and in the wake of a messy divorce, American singer Nick Cooper retires to an English country mansion to write a set of new songs. But the murder of his ex-wife is just the first in a series of brutal slayings as those closest to Cooper start dying in very nasty ways. And Cooper is being haunted by strange sounds and happenings in his house…
Credits
Crew
Directed by: Pete Walker
© MCMLXXVIII [1978] Peter Walker (Heritage) Ltd.
Made entirely on location by Peter Walker (Heritage) Ltd. Enterprise Pictures Limited. A Pete Walker film
Produced by: Pete Walker
Production Manager: Denis Johnson Jr
Screenplay: Murray Smith
Additional Script Material: Michael Sloan
1st Assistant Director: Brian Lawrence
2nd Assistant Director: Glynn Purcell
Photographed by: Peter Jessop
Camera Operator: Peter Sinclair
Follow Focus: Steve Haskett
Gaffer: Ted Davis
Stills Photographer: Frank Bellingham
Film Editor: Alan Brett
Assistant Editor: Chris Rodmell
Post-production Supervisor: Matt McCarthy
Music: Stanley Myers
“Traces of a Long Forgotten Tune” by Jamie Anderson from the album “With One More Look at You” on RCA Records
Sound Recordist: Peter O’Connor
Boom Operator: Jack Davies, John Thurston
Dubbing Mixer: Tony Anscombe
Recorded at: Cine-Lingual Sound Studios Ltd.
Make up Supervision: George Partleton
Art Director: Mike Pickwoad
Assistant to the Producer: Ginger Corbett
Cast
Jack Jones (Nick Cooper)
Pamela Stephenson (Linda [Everett])
David Doyle (Webster Jones)
Bill Owen ([Albert] Mr B)
Sheila Keith ([Doris] Mrs B)
Holly Palance (Gail [Cooper])
Peter Turner (Harry [Cunningham])
Richard Johnson as [Dr] Macauley
Patrick Brock (Dr Paulsen)
June Chadwick (nurse)
Penny Irving (girl singer)
Jeff Silk (police officer)
Alternative Titles
Chi vive in quella casa? – Italy
The Day the Screaming Stopped – US reissue title
Encore – alternative title
Hallucinations – France (video)
He tulevat öisin – Finland
Marerittet – Norway (video)
Le Retour – France
References
Periodicals
- Film Review vol.28 no.7 (July 1978) pp.30-31 – review
- Films and Filming vol.24 no.11 August 1978) pp.41-42 – review
- Films Illustrated vol.7 no.83 (July 1978) p.410 – review
- Monthly Film Bulletin vol.45 no.535 August 1978) p.155 – credits, synopsis, review
- Photoplay vol.29 no.7 July 1978) pp.8-9 – review
- Screen International no.84 (23 April 1977) p.9 – credits
- Screen International no.144 (24 June 1978) p.15 – review
- Sight & Sound vol.15 no.4 (April 2005) p.85 – DVD review (Home Movies: The Pete Walker Collection by Ronnie Hackston)
- Variety vol.307 no.11 (14 July 1982) p.30 – credits, review (Film reviews by Lor)
Books
- The Aurum Film Encyclopedia: Horror by Phil Hardy (ed.) pp.320-321
- British Gothic Cinema by Barry Forshaw p.150
- English Gothic: A Century of Horror Cinema by Jonathan Rigby pp.266, 266
- Film Review 1978-1979 by F. Maurice Speed p.142
- Film Review 1979-1980 by F. Maurice Speed p.138
- The Films of the Eighties by Robert A.Nowlan and Gwendolyn Wright Nowlan p.106-107 – credits, synopsis
- Hoffman’s Guide to SF, Horror and Fantasy Movies 1991-1992 p.76 – credits, review
- Horror and Science Fiction Films II by Donald C. Willis p.63
- Looking for a New England: Action, Time, Vision: Music, Film and TV 1975-1986 by Simon Matthews pp.40, 45
- Uneasy Dreams: The Golden Age of British Horror Films, 1956-1976 by Gary A. Smith pp.52-53
- Unsung Horrors by Eric McNaughton & Darrell Buxton (eds) pp.306-307 – illustrated review (by Steven West)
- X-Cert 2: The British Independent Horror Film 1971-1983 pp.157-162; 289
