Sunday, October 30, 2011

A Reflection of Fear (1973)


Columbia Pictures
Directed by William A. Fraker
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Sony Screen Classics by Request)

A 30-year-old Sondra Locke plays a precocious 15-year-old girl who talks to dolls. Her estranged father Robert Shaw shows up to ask for a divorce from mom, but mom soon turns up dead. Locke and Shaw engage in some inappropriate and uncomfortable affection, driving his girlfriend Sally Kellerman into a rage. Kellerman is attacked on a dark road one night, either by one of Locke's killer dolls or someone dressed like one. It all leads to a big twist ending that is quite preposterous. Dreamily photographed by Laszlo Kovacs.

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