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(aka "The Baby Minder" or "I'm Alone and I'm Scared" or "Night Legs")

 

Directed by Peter Collinson
UK 1971

 

Directed by cult British filmmaker Peter Collinson (The Italian Job, Straight On Till Morning) and written by Tudor Gates (The Vampire Lovers, Lust For A Vampire), Fright has been cited as one of the earliest examples of what would become notoriously known as the “slasher movie”. Starring Susan George (Straw Dogs, Dirty Mary Crazy Larry), Dennis Waterman (The Sweeney, Minder) and Honor Blackman (Goldfinger), Fright remains one of the most hauntingly atmospheric, genuinely creepy and fundamentally disturbing horror films of the early seventies.

Amanda is the young, attractive babysitter hired by the Lloyd family to look after their son one fateful evening. It isn’t long before Amanda realizes she is being watched. As the night progresses, Amanda is gradually subjected to a brutal ordeal of unhinged terror that she may not survive.

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Before When A Stranger Calls, there was Fright!

Teenage babysitter Amanda (Susan George, Straw Dogs) arrives at the Lloyd home to watch their young son for the evening. But it seems that the strangely nervous Mrs. Lloyd is hiding a shocking secret ... a secret that has just escaped from a nearby insane asylum and is now desperately trying to get inside the house. What must Amanda endure to survive the ultimate night of Fright?

This creepy film, directed by Peter Collinson (Straight On Till Morning), also stars Honor Blackman (Goldfinger) and Ian Bannen (Doomwatch).

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In this violent, grim thriller, a baby-sitter's routine job turns out to be anything but when she and her young charge are terrorized by an escaped mental patient who bursts in and holds them hostage. He claims to be the three-year-old boy's father and has come to murder his ex-wife. Meanwhile to stall for time until the cops can save them, the baby-sitter seduces the fugitive father. A deadly stand-off ensues when the cops finally surround the place and he begins threatening to slice the throats of the girl and his son.

Excerpt from B+N located HERE

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Theatrical Release: September 18th, 1971 (Cork Film Festival)

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Coming to Blu-ray in the UK by Studio Canal in October 2019:
Distribution Starz / Anchor Bay Home Video - Region 1 - NTSC Shout! Factory - Region 'A' - Blu-ray
Runtime 1:27:08         1:27:39.837 
Video

1.66:1 Aspect Ratio

Anamorphic widescreen
Average Bitrate: 5.82 mb/s
NTSC 720x480 29.97 f/s

1.66:1 1080P Dual-layered Blu-ray

Disc Size: 31,935,088,597 bytes

Feature: 26,012,190,720 bytes

Video Bitrate: 36.00 Mbps

Codec: MPEG-4 AVC Video

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Bitrate Blu-ray:

Audio English (Dolby Digital mono)

DTS-HD Master Audio English 1567 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1567 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Subtitles None English, None
Features

Release Information:
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay

Aspect Ratio:
Original Aspect Ratio 1.66:1

Edition Details:

• Trailer (3:08)
Peter Collinson Bio (text)

DVD Release Date: May 21st, 2002
Double-lock Keep Case 
Chapters: 17

Release Information:
Studio: Shout! Factory

 

1.66:1 1080P Dual-layered Blu-ray

Disc Size: 31,935,088,597 bytes

Feature: 26,012,190,720 bytes

Video Bitrate: 36.00 Mbps

Codec: MPEG-4 AVC Video

 

Edition Details:

• NEW Fright Nights – An Interview With Author/Film Historian Kim Newman (18:51)
• Theatrical Trailer (1:22)
• Still Gallery (2:36)


 Blu-ray Release Date: September 17th, 2019
 Standard Blu-ray Case

Chapters 12

 

 

Comments:

NOTE: The below Blu-ray captures were taken directly from the Blu-ray disc.

ADDITION: Shout! Factory Blu-ray (September 2019): Shout! Factory have transferred Peter Collinson's Fright to a dual-layered Blu-ray with a max'ed out bitrate. Compared to the 2002 DVD - there is much more information in the frame, mostly on all 4 edges, the skin tones warm, and in many instances lose their orangey hue, and the higher resolution improves detail and contrast significantly. It looks excellent in-motion.

On their Blu-ray, Shout! Factory use a DTS-HD Master 2.0 channel track (24-bit) in the original English language. It is another advancement in the film's audio and score by Harry Robertson (Hammer go-to composer for such titles as The Vampire Lovers, Countess Dracula, Twins of Evil and Jane and the Lost City), complimented by the 'theme' by Robertson and Bob Barratt; Ladybird sung by Nanette. It has a very haunting quality in the lossless. Shout! Factory offer optional English subtitles on their Region 'A' Blu-ray.

There is no commentary but Shout! Factory Blu-ray have added a new, 19-minute, video interview with Kim Newman entitled Fright Nights where he discusses the film's history and critical reaction. He always me appreciate the films that he talks about. There is also a theatrical trailer (shorter than the DVD) and a stills gallery.

The film has plenty of Susan George being compromised if not downright sexploitation but as a horror Collinson has crafted it to be extremely effective. Plenty of fast cuts, close-ups, surprises and screams. It's a simple premise that works well with it evoking Straw Dogs in a few similar scenes of Miss George being... sexually molested.  I've always seen something in Fright and I'm glad to finally have it on an extensively improved Blu-ray presentation. I wish there was a commentary, but we will eventually compare it to the UK BD release later this year. It advertises an interview with Susan George.

Gary Tooze

 

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Coming to Blu-ray in the UK by Studio Canal in October 2019:
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