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 volta para casa após uma internação em um hospital psiquiátrico, atormentado por um acidente de carro que o deixou cego e matou seu pai. Morando com a irmã, ele lida com seu trauma e com as suspeitas sobre um hóspede misterioso. A tensão aumenta conforme Allan questiona a realidade e o perigo que enfrenta.

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

Heads up

  • Terror psicológico desorientador
  • Suspense intenso e sustos repentinos
  • Representação da cegueira e trauma

What it models well

  • Superar traumas
  • Buscar apoio
  • Lidar com o luto

Talk about it after

  • Entender os desafios da saúde mental
  • Lidar com o luto e a perda
  • Confiar nos instintos versus paranoia

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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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