Starring Gerald Mohr, Cathy O'Donnell, William Ching, John Qualen, Barry Bernard
Directed by Harold Daniels
(actor & director credits courtesy IMDB.com)
A man takes his new bride, who's suffered from horrific nightmares of an old house, to a house that exactly resembles it, and she feels she will die if she tries to enter the attic.
This film is best known for its marketing gimmick of Psycho-Rama, a practice by which messages and images were inserted in between frames of the film, supposedly having the subliminal effect of causing the audience to scream. In reality they go by so fast, that it's doubtful they would even be detectable, even by the subconscious mind, but the element of fun is still there, and with today's DVD technology you can freeze frame them to see what they actually say. The movie however, a low budget small-scale psychological thriller, for me stands on its own without the gimmick. I really enjoy it, despite its cheap trappings, and feel it's cleverly written, by prolific television writer Robert C. Dennis. O'Donnell was a good choice for the haunted young bride, and I've always enjoyed Mohr's performances.
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