Haunting Fear (1991)

User Rating:

2.3/10   

Director:

Fred Olen Ray

Writers:

Edgar Allan Poe (story)
Fred Olen Ray (writer)

Release Date:

March 1991 (USA)

Genre:

Horror | Drama

Plot:

A woman has nightmares of being buried alive which somehow awakens a long-repressed enity inside her while her greedy, cheating husband plots to murder her for her money.

Plot Keywords:

Hypnosis | Dream | Nightmare | Brinke Stevens Barefoot | Barefoot

Cast

Brinke Stevens	...	Victoria Munroe
Jan-Michael Vincent	...	Detective James Trent
Jay Richardson	...	Terry Munroe
Delia Sheppard	...	Lisa
Karen Black	...	Dr. Julia Harcourt
Robert Clarke	...	Dr. Carlton
Robert Quarry	...	Visconti
Michael Berryman	...	Mortician
Hoke Howell	...	Father Corpse
Greta Carlson	...	Visconti's Girl (as Sherri Graham)
Mark Thomas McGee	...	Morgue Attendant #1
Jeff Yesko	...	Morgue Attendant #2

Runtime:

88 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Australia:R | UK:18 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

American Independent Productions

Trivia:

Brinke Stevens wrote a screen play called "Buried Nightmares" that was to be a sequel to Haunting Fear, but the movie was never produced.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: Obvious fake head when Victoria knifes Terry and decapitates him.

Movie Connections:

Featured in 100 Years of Horror: Scream Queens (1996) (V)

Poe little Brinke

The auteur Olen Ray put his heart into this telling tale. It stars All-Century Eye Candy Hall of Fame member Brinke Stevens who can uncork our cask of Amontillado anytime. Ms. Stevens plays a woman with a haunting fear of premature burial. Her evil husband is hoping to usher her fall to gain possession of her house. Pitted against this man, will Ms. Stevens conquer her terrors against her worm of a husband or will the pendulum swing against her, driving her 'raven' mad? We apologize for this descent into the maelstrom and pledge to repeat it nevermore. All that stated, the film is enjoyable even though we can not understand why anyone married to Ms. Stevens would want to be cruel to her. Also, Ms. Stevens takes a bath in the film confirming the old adage that cleanliness is next to goddess-liness.