Scream of Fear

Scream of Fear (1961)

Genres - Horror, Mystery, Thriller  |   Sub-Genres - Psychological Thriller  |   Release Date - Apr 4, 1961 (USA - Unknown), Aug 22, 1961 (USA)  |   Run Time - 81 min.  |   Countries - United Kingdom, United States  |   MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson

The British writer/director team of Jimmy Sangster and Seth Holt was never satisfied unless it scared the bejeepers out of its audience. Scream of Fear stars Susan Strasberg as the crippled daughter of Ann Todd, whom she meets for the first time during a vacation on the Riviera. There's something unsettling about Strasberg's surroundings and her mother's behavior. But when Strasberg insists that she's seen the dead body of her father, it is she who is considered off the beam, while everyone else is treated as normal. Perhaps the authorities are right; perhaps Strasberg is merely neurotic and overwrought. And perhaps there's more than one plot twist ahead of us as we draw nearer and nearer the truth. Scream of Fear was originally released in Great Britain as Taste of Fear.

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maniac, chauffeur, corpse, fantasy, father, ghost, mistaken-identity, reality, scheme, terrorism, wheelchair, woman