How Awful About Allan
PG

How Awful About Allan

1970 • 74 min • Thriller · TV Movie · Horror

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Best from age 14
88
Movie Knight Score
24 reviews
  • 100 Reviewers · 2 · 70%
  • 60 Audience · 22 · 30%

Allan rentre chez lui après un séjour en hôpital psychiatrique, tourmenté par un accident de voiture qui l'a rendu aveugle et a tué son père. Vivant avec sa sœur, il est aux prises avec son traumatisme et ses soupçons envers un mystérieux pensionnaire. La tension monte alors qu'Allan remet en question la réalité et le danger qu'il court.

Violence & peril
4/10
Language
2/10
Drinking, drugs & smoking
3/10
Romance & sensuality
1/10
Scary moments
6/10

Heads up

  • Horreur psychologique désorientante
  • Suspense intense et sursauts
  • Représentation de la cécité et du traumatisme

What it models well

  • Surmonter un traumatisme
  • Chercher du soutien
  • Faire face au deuil

Talk about it after

  • Comprendre les défis de la santé mentale
  • Gérer le deuil et la perte
  • Faire confiance à son instinct versus la paranoïa

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Top billed cast

Director: Curtis Harrington

Reviewer notes

RecommendedTrusted family reviewers

Pretty decent moody, intense, creepy psychological thriller with two of my favourite thespians in that department--Anthony Perkins and Julie Harris. It's a tad claustrophobic and difficult to get into at the start, because of this aforementioned intensity, but if you stick with it, it's quite intrinsically rewarding and definitely not a late-night waste of 90 minutes.…

RecommendedTrusted family reviewers

I had previously read about director Curtis Harrington in Barron's excellent book for cinephiles, '501 Movie Directors', though I had unfortunately not been able to find any of his films before this. He definitely has fine technique for getting across moodiness and suspense, at least in this type of film. Hopefully I'll eventually find and watch all of his work.…

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