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Director
  
Terry Bourke

Screenplay
  
Terry Bourke

Writer
  
Terry Bourke

Language
  
English

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Genre
  
Horror

Duration
  

Country
  
Australia

Night of Fear (film) movie poster
Release date
  
18 March 1973

Initial DVD release
  
March 16, 2005 (Australia)

Cast
  
Carla Hoogeveen
(The Woman),
Briony Behets
(Horse Girl),
Norman Yemm
(The Man),
Mike Dorsey
(The Lover),
Curt Jansen
(Garage Attendant)

Similar movies
  
Related Terry Bourke movies

Tagline
  
Hunted and Trapped! Her Nightmare is Just Beginning!

Night of Fear is a 1972 Australian horror film, directed by Terry Bourke. It was written by Bourke and produced by Rod Hay. It is about a woman who is terrorised by a serial killer in the woods. Its theme and style bears a resemblance to the horror classic The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, released two years later. The film is notable for having no dialogue or character names. It has been called "the first Australian horror movie of the renaissance".

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The film was featured in the documentary Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation!.

Night of Fear (film) movie scenes The film alternates quite sweet domestic scenes between Geeson and her husband Robert a nice down to earth performance by Bates with no hint of camp as

A young girl (Carla Hoogeveen) who has just spent an afternoon playing tennis and making love with a man (Mike Dorsey), gets accidentally run off the road by a truck. Ending up on a dead-end dirt road, her car gets stuck in a ditch, where she starts getting terrorised by a drooling, gibbering psycho (Norman Yemm), who also has a colony of rats.

Plot

A young woman crashes her car on a lonely country road. She is terrorised by a crazed hermit.

Cast

  • Norman Yemm as the man
  • Carla Hoogeveen as the woman
  • Mike Dorsey as the lover
  • Briony Behets as the horse girl

    • Production

    The film was shot over twelve days in mid 1972. It was originally intended to be a pilot for TV series called Fight. The Australian Broadcasting Commission provided a crew and 35mm production facilities in exchange for television rights.

    Release

    The film was initially banned in Australia by the OFLC. The makers of Night of Fear appealed to the review board and it was released in November 1972 with an R (18+) rating. It has since been re-classified M (15+).

    The film enjoyed a profitable run in independent cinemas and drive ins.

    Critical reception

    AllMovie wrote, "Night of Fear is a potent, no-frills little shocker that is likely to delight fans of vintage horror", complimenting its "excellent use of whiplash-speed editing, bizarre camera angles and a densely layered soundtrack to create a consistently unnerving atmosphere."

    Home video

    The film was released on DVD alongside fellow Australian horror film Inn of the Damned (also directed by Bourke) by Umbrella Entertainment on 16 March 2005.

    References

    Night of Fear (film) Wikipedia
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    Night of Fear (film) IMDb Night of Fear (film) themoviedb.org