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Paperhouse (1988) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Fantasporto Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( DTS-HD Master Audio )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( DTS-HD Master Audio )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
92 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Music Video
Scene Access
Storyboards

Movie filmed in 1988 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Bernard Rose

Written By:
Matthew Jacobs
Catherine Storr

Actors:
Charlotte Burke ..... Anna Madden
Jane Bertish ..... Miss Vanstone
Samantha Cahill ..... Sharon
Glenne Headly ..... Kate Madden
Sarah Newbold ..... Karen (Anna's school friend)
Gary Bleasdale ..... Policeman
Elliott Spiers ..... Marc
Gemma Jones ..... Dr. Sarah Nicols
Steve O'Donnell ..... Dustman (as Steven O'Donnell)
Ben Cross ..... Dad Madden
Karen Gledhill ..... Nurse
Barbara Keogh ..... Hotel receptionist

Synopsis:

Bernard Rose's Paperhouse is one of the great unknown art house horror films of the last quarter century, just for the sheer vividness of its psychological terrorscape. Once the supernatural link between Anna's crayon and her dream world is firmly established, the film takes the viewer on a hallucinatory trip that's full of foreboding. Given how the slightest alterations of the drawing have repercussions in her dreams -- the boy in the house can't walk, because he was given no legs -- it's with terrific anxiety that the viewer watches Anna violently scratch out the likeness of her father. The nightmare that follows delivers the kind of wordless horror that can only exist in the mind of a child, fixing for the viewer an unforgettable image of the angry paternal figure that lurks in the back rooms of the mind. The scenes outside of the fantasy world are of a slower pace, but they do show the real-world manifestations of Anna's fevered mental state, and flesh out some of the themes that appear in her drawing. Following this visually masterful debut, Rose went on to explore more mainstream horror filmmaking in 1992's Candyman.-Eleven-year-old Charlotte Burke, the neglected daughter of Ben Cross and Glenne Headley, passes out on the school playground and dreams of visiting a house she'd previously drawn in her composition book. She imagines another visit to her 'paper house' while playing hide-and-seek. Experimenting, Burke draws a figure in the window of the house; the next time she dreams, she meets a young boy, as lonely as she. Convinced that she wields a large degree of power in her pencil, Burke draws a picture of her father, Cross, hoping that in doing so he will return home. But Burke is dissatisfied with the picture, and crosses it out--whereupon Cross shows up in her dreams as a murderous stalker. What happens next is a maelstrom of psychological horror, told completely from the child's point of view. Paperhouse is based on Marianne Dreams a novel by Catherine Storr.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 19 December, 2019.