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Seance on a Wet Afternoon
Suitable for mature persons.
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Release date Australia
August 20th, 2009
DVD Region
Region 4
Languages
English
Supported Audio
- Dolby Digital Stereo
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Studio
Product ID
3120243
Description
Tense and frightening, this enduring portrait of madness is the story of a middle-aged couple unable to cope with the loss of their own child.
Kim Stanley (The Right Stuff) - in an Oscar-nominated performance - is a self-styled London psychic caught in the delusional belief that she can manipulate children to prove her telepathic powers.
Her weak-willed husband (Richard Attenborough - The Great Escape) becomes an accomplice, and victim, of his deranged wife's scheme, agreeing to engage in extortion and kidnapping so she can demonstrate her supernatural prowess to a police investigator (Patrick Magee - A Clockwork Orange).
Described as "the perfect psychological suspense thriller and a flawless film to boot" by The New York Herald-Tribune, this sublime psycho-drama won numerous awards, including a Best Actor BAFTA for Attenborough's career-defining performance.
Review
"Aside from boasting one of the great evocative titles in film history, Séance on a Wet Afternoon (1964) works up a surplus of dread with a minimum of devices. Kim Stanley was nominated for an Oscar® for her performance as a London medium who bulldozes her weak husband (Richard Attenborough) into kidnapping a little girl; the goal is not ransom money, but a chance to prove Stanley's clairvoyant gifts to the police, and thus bring her the respect she has always deserved. The suspense is keen, yet the movie's real achievement is detailing the stifling marriage between two deluded, dependent middle-aged people. Attenborough is heartbreaking as a human doormat, and Stanley's Method intensity brings the movie into a genuinely unnerving realm (she didn't work in movies again for nearly two decades). The story was remade, with intriguing changes, by Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa as Séance (a.k.a. Korei, 2000)." --Robert Horton
Kim Stanley (The Right Stuff) - in an Oscar-nominated performance - is a self-styled London psychic caught in the delusional belief that she can manipulate children to prove her telepathic powers.
Her weak-willed husband (Richard Attenborough - The Great Escape) becomes an accomplice, and victim, of his deranged wife's scheme, agreeing to engage in extortion and kidnapping so she can demonstrate her supernatural prowess to a police investigator (Patrick Magee - A Clockwork Orange).
Described as "the perfect psychological suspense thriller and a flawless film to boot" by The New York Herald-Tribune, this sublime psycho-drama won numerous awards, including a Best Actor BAFTA for Attenborough's career-defining performance.
Review
"Aside from boasting one of the great evocative titles in film history, Séance on a Wet Afternoon (1964) works up a surplus of dread with a minimum of devices. Kim Stanley was nominated for an Oscar® for her performance as a London medium who bulldozes her weak husband (Richard Attenborough) into kidnapping a little girl; the goal is not ransom money, but a chance to prove Stanley's clairvoyant gifts to the police, and thus bring her the respect she has always deserved. The suspense is keen, yet the movie's real achievement is detailing the stifling marriage between two deluded, dependent middle-aged people. Attenborough is heartbreaking as a human doormat, and Stanley's Method intensity brings the movie into a genuinely unnerving realm (she didn't work in movies again for nearly two decades). The story was remade, with intriguing changes, by Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa as Séance (a.k.a. Korei, 2000)." --Robert Horton
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