A REFLECTION OF FEAR (1973) ** Robert Shaw, Sally Kellerman, Mary Ure, Sondra Locke, Signe Hasso, Mitchell Ryan, Gordon Devol. Haunting yet problematic thriller based on Stanton Forbes' novel "Go To Thy Deathbed" about a young woman (Locke, who gives a tenderly troubled performance) who finds herself reuniting with her long-estranged father (Shaw wholeheartedly stalwart) while her eerie 'chats' with her 'friends' (read: dolls!) proves to have some truth to the eerie goings on including murder and incestuous underpinnings. While filmmaker William A. Fraker lays down the odd atmosphere with glossy cinematography by ace Laszlo Kovacs and Fred Myrow's pinpricking score to elicit some chills the final act feels compromised and frankly a cheat for what has been implied thru out in the adaptation by Edward Hume and Lewis John Carlino.
Review of A Reflection of Fear
