Fear in the Night (1972) on Netflix
PG19721h 34mHorrorMysteryThriller
Peggy Heller marries Robert Heller and moves into a chalet at the boys' school where he teaches. A one-armed intruder attacked her before the move, and she comes to fear the headmaster.
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Peggy Heller, a twenty-two-year-old caregiver, has just married Robert Heller and moves with him to a boys' boarding school south of London, where he has taken a teaching job. The night before they leave the city, a man with a prosthetic hand breaks into her home and attacks her. She travels with Robert the next morning, and the couple settles into a chalet across the road from the school, run by headmaster Michael Carmichael. While Robert is at work, Peggy hears boys' voices in classrooms she finds empty, and Michael shows her around the building. Back at the chalet she is attacked again; Robert doubts her account and worries about her state of mind, and calls off their dinner with the Carmichaels. Driving the grounds, they meet Molly Carmichael, the headmaster's wife, out hunting rabbits; Peggy finds her stand-offish.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Fear in the Night (1972)
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- Jimmy Sangster's script for Fear in the Night began as Brainstorm, written for Universal Pictures in 1963, and was retitled The Claw in 1967 before finally being rewritten and filmed in 1971.
- Hammer executive Michael Carreras paired Fear in the Night with Straight on Till Morning under the title "Women in Fear", saying his concept was two films by the same author on a central theme, both directed by the same person.
- The lakeshore scenes, including the one where Judy Geeson's character meets Joan Collins', were shot at Aldenham Country Park around the Aldenham Reservoir, while Bhaktivedanta Manor stood in for the boys' school.
