Voices (aka Nightmare) 1973

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If you can watch a very old, cut down for TV version that was uploaded from VHS, you might enjoy this. It betrays its origin as a stage play, and is very much a two-hander, with good performances from Hemmings and Hunnicut. But while most of the movie is okay, the last ten minutes or so take it to a new level and make it a genuinely effective ghost story. And yes, perhaps it was intended to cash in on Don't Look Now, but it takes a very different direction.

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Sam said…
This seems to be a remake of the 1970 ITV Armchair Theatre play The Others, which I saw as a child and never forgot - and hence will forever see the twist in films like The Sixth Sense in the first minutes - not to mention Alejandro Almenabar's The Others, which I think lifted the story wholesale and which makes me hope that somewhere he has admitted the debt he owes to that earlier production.
28 May 2012 at 12:06:00 GMT
valdemar said…
It certainly betrays its 'stagey' origins. I didn't think of The Others, but you're right, of course. It would be interesting to find an earlier example of that particular twist.
28 May 2012 at 16:04:00 GMT
Astronomer's Wife said…
I watched the original Armchair Theatre version as a kid too -it was so scary I can still remember it - the ending was scripted slightly differently I recall! I'd love to track down the 1970 version.
17 November 2018 at 02:47:00 GMT
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