GamerTab
That was an excellent one.
Humaira Grant
It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.
Kaelan Mccaffrey
Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.
RavenGlamDVDCollector
The Susan George fan club president is here again (just kidding!) and my review of FRIGHT focuses more on whether or not this is a picture worthy of this lovely young starlet who unfortunately did not choose her parts well, and ended up in less conventional movies. And got dubbed (a) a sexpot (b) "poor Susan, always getting raped".FRIGHT, by today's standards, and by the kind of slasher flicks to follow in the wake of HALLOWEEN, is hardly a frightening movie. So if that's what you're looking for, you'd be well advised to stay clear. I wanted a good movie with suspense showing off Susan George to full advantage, and that is what I got, she is absolutely darling in this 1971 movie. At her best. Though I'd always have a special fondness for LOLA, better known as TWINKY. And DIRTY MARY CRAZY LARRY shall forever remain THE Susan George movie. But lookswise Susan's at the top of her game here. Did I say darling?The It girl of the late Sixties and early Seventies, Susan George was the best the silver screen had to offer at that time. Even today she'd hold her own looking the way she does in FRIGHT compared against the best of contemporary Hollywood. So just imagine her effect on the hearts and minds of men and women alike back in 1971! A blonde bombshell, and a very, very likable one too. Always cheeky in a very cute way, especially in FRIGHT, DIE SCREAMING MARIANNE and LOLA, Susan represents this reviewer's ideal dream girl, and it is saddening that alas! fate ruined her career with health obstacles. But for a time back there, she was the ultimate screen goddess, and her youthful exuberance will forever shine in my heart and mind forever. If you'd observe closely, she wasn't really Playboy pretty, more girl next door with just a fantastic figure and a really great hairstyle. Some people have a lot owed to choosing a great hairstyle, Farrah Fawcett- Majors, Jennifer Aniston... Include Susan George here. I did say darling, did I not?As for the picture, it really started off on the right track, but gets derailed and loses steam with an unconvincing villain and a script that falls far short as the story progresses. And that scene where she is trying to escape all busty-looking is filmed wrong. Unconvincing. Contrived. Film sexiness as sexiness, don't do it this way, it ruins all credibility and ruined my enjoyment of the movie as I from then on saw through all its mistakes.Honor Blackman was quite disappointing as well. Really, I can say a lot of good things about this movie: Susan's eyes, Susan's hair, Susan's legs. Without Susan, I'd not have bothered. Put it this way: Anything remotely likable about this movie besides Susan George? No. ZILCH.But, wow, nice chick. Unforgettable.
markcope1981
in what appears to be the first of its kind it made me realize that the classic halloween 1978 is a blatant rip off well there are a few differences but both have similar plots susan george is great and everyone else is OK we have a decent heroine we have a scary killer we have little gore this film is great just what i need bottom line great with the exception of the awful extremely abrupt ending i really like the film john carpenter has to have seen it amanda marring is babysitting tara a young boy taras crazed father brian has come home and terror begins scary film good movie i like it a lot pretty good 9 out of 10
moonspinner55
British thriller has comely college student Susan George (studying child welfare and psychology!) babysitting for Honor Blackman's little boy, unaware that Blackman's estranged husband--a homicidal maniac--has just escaped from the institution and is lurking about in the darkness. Early precursor to the killer-in-the-house/terrorizing-the-babysitter genre is well-enough made and acted, despite an extremely thin script. There are no twists to the plot (it's all routine), though the overwrought finale makes an attempt to surprise us. George, who always looks on the verge of crying, suffers and screams with her blouse open and her brassiere showing. It's that kind of picture... *1/2 from ****
acidburn-10
The plot = A young girl Amanda (Susan George) babysits a young boy, unaware that the child's real father has escaped from a mental asylum and is coming home.An atmospheric psycho drama from the UK, definitely delivers all the chills in all the right places. One of earilest examples of babysitter alone in the house terrorized by a maniac, and one of the better examples much better than "When A Stranger Calls" original and the god awful remake. It's really the performances that makes this movie work, Susan George really shines as the babysitter whose really put through hell by the child's father played brilliantly by Ian Bannen, really hits all the right notes, he was well and truly demented and was really scary at times as he goes from tenderness to psychotic and it certainly is shocking in places, for instance directors today would never dare film the, up close, scenes where the father threatens to cut his son's throat with a shard of glass. The violence against George and the mental torture she is put through is pretty strong also. We also get Honour Blackman (famous for James Bond Gold Finger, The Cat and the Canary and TV's the Upper hand) playing the madman's ex-wife, she was well and truly beautiful in this role and we also get George Cole and Dennis Waterman from TV's minder, so this movie is full of famous faces.All in all a tense psychological thriller that doesn't deserve to be forgotten.
