Throughout his career, director Pete WaIker was no stranger to controversy, but his 1974 fiIm Frightmare sparked a firestorm of criticism from the protectors of public moraIs, who deemed it "despicabIe" (London Observer). In spite of the condemnation - or more IikeIy, because of it - Frightmare has achieved almost legendary status in British horror history. Sheila Keith stars as a former patient of a mentaI institution, who has settled down in a remote farmhouse, where she teIls fortunes in her spare time. But the kind, maternal exterior conceals a dreadful monster, which the asylum, it seems, was unable to cure. |