Sunday, March 25, 2012

Movie review - "Is There Anybody There?" (1976) ** (warning: spoilers)


A beautiful woman, Kate (Tina Grenville), is released from a sanatorium unaware that while she was away her husband John (George Lazenby) has begun an affair with her sister Marianne (Wendy Hughes). The two sisters live together in a creepy apartment block while John is away, and find themselves stalked by some mysterious strangers, Rosa (Chantal Contouri) and Duncan (Patrick Ward). Marianne believes that she is being confused with Kate - but it turns out the whole thing is a plot by Kate to revenge herself on Marianne and John. Marianne accidentally shoots John to death and then Kate shoots Marianne and escapes with John's money and her lover, Duncan - who has murdered Rosa.
This is one of a series of TV movies made by Robert Bruning in the 1970s. Lazenby isn't in it very much - it's more a vehicle for Grenville (very much a gas lighting plot). Some decent scary shock scenes such as Lazenby being killed but they are few and far between and it's a bit crappy.

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