A Reflection of Fear

Director: William A. Fraker William A. Fraker

Overview

Sondra Locke stars as Marguerite, a confused girl who emerges from her isolated dream world to find her long-absent father returning home with a girl friend. Confused and jealous of the new woman, Locke and her "killer doll" Aaron go on a killing spree.

Product Details

Release Date:	08/16/2010
UPC:	0043396355002
Original Release:	1973
Rating:	PG
Source:	ALLIED VAUGHN
Language:	English
Sales rank:	47,879

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Robert Shaw	Michael
Mary Ure	Katherine
Sally Kellerman	Anne
Sondra Locke	Marguerite
Signe Hasso	Julia
Mitchell Ryan	Inspector McKenna
Gordon DeVol	Hector
Victoria Risk	Peggy
Leonard Crofoot	Aaron
Michael St. Clair	Kevin
Liam Dunn	Coroner
Michelle Marvin	Nurse
Michele Montau	Mme. Caraquet
Gordon Anderson	Aaron
Fred Myrow	Composer

Technical Credits

Lewis Carlino

Edward Hume

William A. Fraker	Director
Howard B. Jaffe	Producer
Lewis Carlino	Screenwriter
Edward Hume	Screenwriter
Whitey Ford	Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial Reviews

A Reflection of Fear belongs to a group of pre-slasher horror movies from the late '60s/early '70s, when Psycho's influence was more psychological than visual. They revolve around perverted puberty, films where the killers/monsters had been screwed up during adolescence -- usually from a parental figure -- so that sex becomes a physical threat that they defend themselves from by annihilating the bodies of others. With a final twist that out-skeezes them all, Reflection is a profoundly unsettling masterpiece of the form. Sondra Locke embodies a young adult still acting like a little girl; her costumes, a mixture of stifling Victorian lace and short skirts, further captures the extreme dualities of her nature. Beneath the summery idyll backdrop, the film hums with unsettled menace, punctuated by well-orchestrated murder sequences. One of noted cinematographer William Fraker's few directorial efforts and shot by Laszlo Kovacs through the gauzy glow of a Hallmark filter, it anticipates Carrie as a depiction of a drawn-out girlhood stagnating and stifled into a Gothic nightmare.