A young girl is subjected to a reign of terror so that her soul can be transferred to the body of an old crone.
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Cast
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| Joanne Samuel | ... | Alison Findlay | |
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Lou Brown | ... | Peter Healey |
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Bunney Brooke | ... | Aunt Jennifer Findlay |
| John Bluthal | ... | Uncle Dean Findlay | |
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Vincent Ball | ... | Dr. Jeremy Lyall |
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Margie McCrae | ... | Chrissie Willis |
| Julie Wilson | ... | Maureen Tate | |
| Martin Vaughan | ... | Mr. Martin | |
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Rosalind Speirs | ... | Maggie Carlyle |
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Robyn Gibbes | ... | Helen McGill |
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Ian Coughlan | ... | Dave Ducker |
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Ralph Cotterill | ... | Brian Healey |
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Marion Johns | ... | Granny Thorne |
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George Carden | ... | Druid Leader |
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Belinda Giblin | ... | Isobel Thorne |
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A Young girl is puzzled by a sequence of strange events which occur during the days leading up to her 19th birthday. Slowly, and with growing horror, she becomes aware of the celebrations which her "relatives" have planned for her. Written by Anonymous
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looking at oneself in a mirror | crone | australian supernatural | australian horror | city |Taglines:
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Country:
AustraliaLanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
1 May 1981 (Australia) See more »Also Known As:
L'occhio della spirale See more »Company Credits
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Color (Eastmancolor)Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1
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A sixteen-year-old named Alison and two friends play "ask the glass," a variation on Ouija, played here on a glass table, using square tiles featuring numbers and the alphabet arranged in a circle, and two titles for yes and no in the middle, and an upturned glass as a planchette. A warning is spelled out for Alison from her deceased father, who is then pushed out by some other power. The girl he briefly possessed snatches a circular amulet from Alison's neck, then is crushed by a bookcase.
Close to Alison's nineteenth birthday, she goes to visit her aunt and uncle. Her boyfriend tries to continue visiting her, but the family tries to keep him away. Alison discovers a miniature (though still large) stonehenge in a secret garden, has nightmares, and gets hypnotized. The boyfriend tries to do some research about the name Mirne, which the warning mentioned, and also Alison's real family.
The stonehenge is neat, and I liked that a character takes the time to do research. However, the movie on the whole is on the boring side. The picture quality on the video is not terribly good either. The VidAmerica videobox is sort of a warning: the cover features a drawing, and the back has no pictures from the movie.