Monday, 25 December 2017
311 A Reflection of Fear ( 1971 )
This is a psychological horror centred on a disturbed girl. It's nearly good with some neat shocks but the excessive use of soft focus tires your eyes and the ending renders much of what's gone before nonsensical.
Michael ( Robert Shaw ) and his girlfriend Anne revisit his home in the hope of securing a divorce from his bitter ex-wife Katherine. She lives with her provocative mother and disturbed daughter Marguerite who hears voices and takes unexplained medication. Katherine will give him the divorce if he abandons Marguerite for good but Marguerite has other ideas.
Sondra Locke ( as Marguerite )
Sex : Marguerite masturbates while Michael and Anne make love next door
Death : Survives
Sondra is so notorious for events offscreen that it's often forgotten she was once a promising actress with an Oscar nomination for The Heart is a Lonely Hunter in 1968. Her career was already stuttering when she met Clint Eastwood on the set of The Outlaw Josey Wales in 1975 and became his partner for the next 13 years while remaining married to the bisexual Gorden Anderson. She appeared almost exclusively in Eastwood's films. By the mid-eighties she was fancying herself as a director . When their relationship failed in 1989 she sued for palimony and as part of the settlement received a directing deal with Warners. When no one hired her she sued Eastwood again for fraud and received an undisclosed payout. She later got a payout from Warners. While hailing herself as the victor, she's only directed one film since the break up with Eastwood. She is now 73.
Sally Kellerman ( as Anne )
Sex : Anne makes love with Michael. Later she is nearly raped ( and apparently rescued by someone we never see )
Death : Survives
This part continued Sally's career resurrection following her success in M.A.S.H.
Mary Ure ( as Katherine )
Sex : Raped with a wooden stick
Death : From blows to the head
Mary was a Glaswegian actress who was briefly married to John Osborne in the late fifties. She moved on to Shaw and bore him three children. This interrupted a promising career including an Oscar nomination for Sons and Lovers in 1960. She had problems with alcoholism and this turned out to be her last film. She died of an accidental overdose in 1975 aged 42.
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