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Movie Description
Childhood fantasies transform into terror-filled nightmares when a house sketched by a lonely and imaginative child comes to life in a recurring dream which changes as the drawing is altered.
Synopsis
A highly imaginative 11-year-old girl, who misses her constantly absent father, discovers that somehow the images she draws on paper can become frighteningly real. At first, she finds them comforting, but gradually the pictures become more and more threatening until they capture her in a nightmarish world from which she doesn't know how to escape.
Film Notes
Film was developed by Working Title (Developments) Ltd. in association with Tilby Rose Enterprises Ltd.
Shot in Technicolor, on Eastman colour film from Kodak, with Panavision equipment. Filmed on location in the west of England, London, and Pinewood Studios, by Working Title-Paperhouse Ltd.
Additional cast: Samantha Cahill (Sharon); Sarah Newbold (Karen); Gary Bleasdale (Policeman); Karen Gledhill (Nurse); and Barbara Keogh (Receptionist).
Sound recorded and mixed at Britannia Row Studios.
Faure's "Requiem" performed by the Choristers of Westminster Cathedral. "A40 Overhead Section" written by director Bernard Rose.
Additional credits: Chuck Becker (main title design); Peter Watson Associates (titles/optical effects).
Rated BBFC 15 by the British Board of Film Classification.
Copyright Vestron Pictures 1988.
Industry Reviews
"...The vision here is laceratingly sharp....The soundtrack and images keep working you up, squeezing out cold sweat..."
Los Angeles Times - Michael Wilmington (03/17/1989)
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