Fear in the Night (1972 film)
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| Directed by | Jimmy Sangster |
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| Produced by | Jimmy Sangster |
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| Cinematography | Arthur Grant |
| Edited by | Peter Weatherley |
| Music by | John McCabe |
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Running time | 94 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £141,000 |
| Box office | £835,000 |
Fear in the Night (also known as Dynasty of Fear and Honeymoon of Fear) is a 1972 British psychological horror film directed, produced, and co-written by Jimmy Sangster, produced by Hammer Film Productions, and starring Judy Geeson, Joan Collins, Peter Cushing, and Ralph Bates. It focuses on a psychologically-fragile woman who, upon relocating to a rural boarding school where her husband has taken a job, finds herself being tormented by a mysterious figure with a prosthetic arm.
Like many horror films of its era, Fear in the Night has been noted for its usage of female hysteria as a central narrative motif, and was released as a double bill in the United Kingdom with Straight on Till Morning, another Hammer film featuring similar themes. In the United States, the film was released as part of a double bill with Demons of the Mind.