SYMPTOMS [BLU-RAY]

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• Release Year: 1974
• Genre: Horror
• Plot: A dark and haunting study in psychological horror, Symptoms takes us deep into the twisted mind of damaged girl.; ; Helen, who lives alone, invites her new friend Ann to stay with her in a lonely house, lost in the English countryside. The house, the woods that surround it and the figure fleetingly glimpsed through its windows, all seem inbued with a deep sense of mystery. Helen appears to be hiding a secret and the more Ann tries to uncover it, the deeper she is pulled into its dark heart.; ; Symptoms was the official UK entry int the Cannes film festival in 1974 and was highly praised at the time. Subsequently the film sank into obscurity and was recently listed as one of the UK's top 75 'lost films'. This release, taken from the original negative and fully restored, brings this quiet masterpiece bank into view, where it can now be appreciated as one of the most underrated films of the 1970s.
• Cast: Angela Pleasence, Peter Vaughan, Lorna Heilbron, Nancy Nevinson, Ronald O'Neil, Marie-Paule Mailleux, Mike Grady, Raymond Huntley, José Ramón Larraz, Stanley Miller, Thomas Owen
• Director: José Ramón Larraz
• Runtime: 1:31
• Company: Mondo Macabro, Boum Productions, Cinematek, BFI
• Media Format: Movie