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Symptoms is a 1974 British psychological horror film directed by José Ramón Larraz and starring Angela Pleasence, Peter Vaughan, and Lorna Heilbron. The film, based on a story by Thomas Owen , follows a woman who goes to stay with a friend at her family remote English manor where all is not as it seems.
- Jean L. Dupuis
- John Scott
- Finiton Productions
Symptoms: Directed by José Ramón Larraz. With Angela Pleasence, Peter Vaughan, Lorna Heilbron, Nancy Nevinson. A young woman is invited by her girlfriend, who lives in an English country mansion, to stay there with her.
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- Horror
- José Ramón Larraz
- 1976-06
Filter by Rating: 9/10. Brooding, mysterious horror film. drownsoda90 2 June 2016. "Symptoms" follows a paper-thin plot line that details a woman who invites a girlfriend to her remote mansion for the weekend, but her true motives come into focus as something far more sinister than imagined. Originally screened at the Cannes Film Festival ...
Symptoms seems to amplify its sense of suffocation, of desperation, and its sense of doomed inevitability. August 27, 2018 | Full Review…. Alexandra Heller-Nicholas Senses of Cinema. TOP CRITIC ...
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Mar 21, 2018 · Catalan filmmaker José Ramón Larraz’s psychological horror film Symptoms – a UK production – was the British entry at the Cannes Film Festival in 1974. Despite this, the film was considered all but lost for decades: despite some rare television screenings early on and rough bootlegs and pirated copies that circulated through informal channels, it was big news when it was announced that ...
- Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
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Symptoms is a 1974 British psychological horror film directed by José Ramón Larraz and starring Angela Pleasence, Peter Vaughan, and Lorna Heilbron. The film, based on a story by Thomas Owen, follows a woman who goes to stay with a friend at her family remote English manor where all is not as it seems. The film had its premiere at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival as the first official British ...
SYMPTOMS boasts some excellent editing by Brian Smedley-Aston, who would go on to produce Larraz's next film, VAMPYRES, not to mention the infamous video nasty EXPOS (1976, aka THE HOUSE ON STRAW HILL). Unfortunately, most of Larraz's films have remained frustratingly difficult to obtain. His first film, WHIRLPOOL, was thought lost until very ...
