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Frightmare (1974) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Frightmare (also known as Cover Up and Once Upon a Frightmare) is a 1974 British horror slasher film directed and produced by Pete Walker, written by David McGillivray and starring Rupert Davies and Sheila Keith. [1]
Frightmare: Directed by Pete Walker. With Rupert Davies, Sheila Keith, Deborah Fairfax, Paul Greenwood. After escaping a death sentence for her hideous crimes, a seemingly rehabilitated woman settles in an isolated farmhouse with her husband, only to ache, once more, for blood, and a crash-course in surgery. Is, indeed, her old self back?
- (2.7K)
- Horror
- Pete Walker
- 1975-07
David McGillivray. Screenplay. Pete Walker. Story. In 1957, Dorothy and Edmund Yates were committed to an institution for the criminally insane, she for acts of murder and cannibalism and he for covering up her crimes. Fifteen years later, they are pronounced fit for society and released.
Frightmare is directed by Pete Walker who also co-writes the screenplay with David McGillivray. It stars Rupert Davies, Shelia Keith, Deborah Fairfax, Paul Greenwood and Kim Butcher. Music is by Stanley Myers and cinematography by Peter Jessop.
Quite bleak and gory for a British film from '74 dealing with a serial killer named Dorothy Yates (Sheila Keith) convicted to a mental institution for 15 years for her crimes in the fifties. Her husband Edmund…
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Jul 4, 1975 · This ghoulishly fun Grand Guignol horror piece from director Pete Walker features a tour-de-force performance by Sheila Keith as Dorothy Yates, who was committed to a mental hospital in 1957 for a series of cannibal-killings along with her devoted husband Edmund (Rupert Davies).
