Fright

Name: Fright
Director: Peter Collinson
Released: 1971-09-18

1971 film by Peter Collinson

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Released: September 18, 1971
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, October 1971
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, April 3, 1972
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Director: Peter Collinson
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Screenwriter: Tudor Gates
Cast: Ian Bannen
, Susan George
, Honor Blackman
, John Gregson
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Runtime: 87 min
Genre: slasher film
, horror film
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Original language: English

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Fright is a 1971 British thriller film starring Susan George, Ian Bannen, Honor Blackman, and John Gregson. The film follows a babysitter who is terrorized one evening by her employer's deranged ex-husband. Its original working titles were The Baby Minder and Girl in the Dark before it was titled Fright. It is said by many horror fans and commentators to be one of or even the first film in which an isolated babysitter is stalked by an unrelenting and psychopathic antagonist, rendering it the forerunner of dozens of movies to use similar premises over the following decades.

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Director of photography: Ian Wilson
Title: Fright
Color: color
FSK film rating: FSK 18
Film editor: Raymond Poulton
Distribution format: video on demand
Set in environment: country house
Different from: Fright criterion used: title refers to multiple creative works · applies to name of subject: Fright
Pelko criterion used: title refers to multiple creative works · applies to name of subject: Pelko

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