Fear in the Night

Jul 09, 1972 1h 34m

5.9

56 votes

Synopsis

It took Peggy Heller a long time to recover from the trauma of a brutal physical assault, suffered in her youth. When she married Robert, he provided her with the love and reassurance she craved for and the two settled down in a pretty house in the grounds of the public school where Robert was a master. But the headmaster of the school is not what he seems and Peggy is convinced he means to harm her - is her fear a figment of her tortured imagination or are there forces at work that intend to manipulate her anxieties with fatal consequences?

Title	Fear in the Night
Companies	Hammer Film Productions
Countries	United Kingdom
Keywords	murder, psychological thriller, nervous breakdown, newlywed, schoolhouse