| Title | : | Night Child |
|---|---|---|
| Release | : | 1972 |
| Rating | : | 5.9 |
| Language | : | English, Italian |
| Runtime | : | 89 |
| Genre | : | Crime,Drama,Horror |
In this stylish and atmospheric psychological thriller reminiscent of Henry James's Turn of the Screw, a widowed English writer brings a young, glamorous new bride to his bleak, isolated home in rural Spain. She soon becomes obsessed with her 12-year old stepson, who she learns has just been expelled from school for mysterious offenses; while the boy enjoys, exploits, and feeds her increasing paranoia about him. That he is a brilliant and lonely child is obvious. But is he the victim of a neurotic woman's overwrought imagination-- in Shakespeare's words, the innocent flower, or the serpent under it? —Paul Emmons
Trevor Preston, Andrea Bianchi, Erich Kröhnke
