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Watch: Fear in the Night 1972 123movies, Full Movie Online – In London, twenty-two year-old Peggy Heller (Judy Geeson) meets and marries school teacher Robert Heller (Ralph Bates) after recovering from a nervous breakdown. Robert works in the countryside in a private school owned by headmaster Michael Carmichael (Peter Cushing), who is married to Molly Carmichael (Dame Joan Collins). On the eve of moving to the country with her husband, Peggy spends the night at the boarding house of Mrs. Beamish (Gillian Lind) and is attacked by a man with a mechanical arm in her room. Mrs. Beamish calls the doctor, but they do not believe Peggy. The next morning, she heads with Robert to the country and moves into the cottage in the school. Soon, Peggy is attacked by the same man, but Robert does not believe her. Then she meets the Headmaster and realizes that he has a mechanical arm. What will happen next?.
Plot: It took Peggy Heller a long time to recover from the trauma of a brutal physical assault, suffered in her youth. When she married Robert, he provided her with the love and reassurance she craved for and the two settled down in a pretty house in the grounds of the public school where Robert was a master. But the headmaster of the school is not what he seems and Penny is convinced he means to harm her – is her fear a figment of her tortured imagination or are there forces at work that intend to manipulate her anxieties with fatal consequences?
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FEAR IN THE NIGHT (Jimmy Sangster, 1972) **1/2
Sangster’s third and final film as director forsakes the Gothic trappings of the first two for the psycho-thrillers which Hammer occasionally dabbled in (inspired by LES DIABOLIQUES [1954] and kick-started by the Sangster-penned TASTE OF FEAR [1961]).

As such, it’s a pretty solid entry in the genre: well-made (the last half-hour being especially tense), stylish (making subtle use of elliptical editing, careful not to go overboard as was the case with STRAIGHT ON TILL MORNING [1972]) and sporting a compact but most able cast – Judy Geeson (her inherent vulnerability is suited to this type of frightened lady role), Joan Collins (going through a horror/thriller phase at the time and who’s, of course, alluringly bitchy), Ralph Bates (it took me some time to accept him in a modern setting since he’s so comfortably placed in the Gothic world of his other stuff for Hammer, but there’s no denying that he does quite well by his role here!) and Peter Cushing (superlative as always, he has a field day with an ambiguous characterization); incidentally, Cushing and Collins must be one of the most incongruous husband-and-wife pairings in film history!

As one can gather from the above, I liked the film quite a bit and, in fact, pondered for a while the notion of awarding it a *** rating but was, ultimately, deterred from doing so by a couple of flaws: the ‘ingenious’ plot is, actually, fairly predictable (but, if anything, it’s even more fun to be able to anticipate the many twists involved!); however, this also means that one has to labor through a first half that is both slow and repetitive!! I do feel that it’s underrated in the Hammer canon: Leonard Maltin dismisses it, for instance, but Leslie Halliwell – not usually one to bother much with the company’s latter-day output – is surprisingly complimentary in his review.

While FEAR IN THE NIGHT more or less adheres to Hammer’s formula for this type of film – an innocent girl having a brush with murder and madness in remote surroundings – it also draws parallels to the contemporary giallos, especially with its device of a black-gloved stalker. Incidentally, of Hammer’s 10 modern suspensers, I’ve only got two more to catch up with – MANIAC (1963) and CRESCENDO (1970).

The Audio Commentary here proves disappointing – not because it isn’t informative but, rather, due to the fact that we get an awful lot of repetition of Sangster’s anecdotes from his tracks for THE HORROR OF FRANKENSTEIN (1970) and LUST FOR A VAMPIRE (1971); to be fair to him, the fault lies more with moderator Marcus Hearn – who should have come up with a fresher set of questions, as it were. Then again, I’d have expected more insight into the actual construction of the script (a psycho thriller being, fundamentally, more intricate than a Gothic horror) – but it’s safe to assume that, after all these years, Sangster recalls precious little about this aspect…although he does mention that he had pitched the script to the company as early as 1963, and that it was originally intended to be set on a boat! The discussion also touches upon Hammer’s other suspensers: apart from citing TASTE OF FEAR and THE NANNY (1965) as his favorite films, Sangster mentions that Orson Welles turned up unannounced one day on the set of MANIAC; in connection with the film under review – which, incidentally, brought Sangster’s fortuitous association with Hammer to a close – he acknowledges the fact that Peter Cushing was basically serving the same function (i.e. a red herring) that Christopher Lee did in TASTE OF FEAR.

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One of Hammer Films’ ventures into the psychological horror realm, Fear in the Night is more fun than frightening. Plot has Judy Geeson as a young woman recovering from a nervous breakdown who moves with her husband to a boys’ school. Once there she appears to be once again terrorized by a man with an artificial arm, but nobody believes her.

Peter Cushing, Ralph Bates and Joan Collins also star, in what has to be a candidate for weakest of the Hammer psychological series of films. Things are not helped by it coming off as a cheap knock off of Hammer’s own superlative “Taste of Fear 1961”, a picture that firmly delivered on its promise.

Fear in the Night starts off promisingly, with a genuinely scary set-up, and once Geeson and Bates arrive at the boys school it’s ripe for chills and suggestion. Unfortunately, the premise of Geeson being menaced in what is essentially a four character piece quickly wears thin – with Cushing badly under used in the process.

Atmosphere is fine, director and co-writer Jimmy Sangster always had a good eye and ear for uneasy dread. While the small cast give it a good whirl to make the modest intentions shine brighter. But ultimately it’s only a diversion piece that homages better films of its type instead of making its own mark. 5/10

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 34 min (94 min) (USA)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated PG
Genre Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Director Jimmy Sangster
Writer Jimmy Sangster, Michael Syson
Actors Judy Geeson, Joan Collins, Ralph Bates
Country United Kingdom
Awards N/A
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (RCA Sound System)
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory Technicolor, USA (© Technicolor)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm