Hammer House of Horror: Growing Pains (1980)

Country of Origin: UK
Date(s) of Broadcast: 4th October 1980
Running Times: 50 mins
Format: colour
Sound:

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: A Jack Gill Presentation for Chips Productions Ltd / Cinema Arts International / Hammer Films for ITC Films International
Executive Producers: Brian Lawrence, David Reid
Producer: Roy Skeggs
Production Manager: Ron Jackson

SCRIPT
Script: Nicholas Palmer
Story Editor: Anthony Read

DIRECTION
Director: Francis Megahy

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Norman Warwick

MUSIC
Music: John McCabe
Music Supervisor: Philip Martell

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Ian Scoones

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Designer: Carolyn Scott

LOCATIONS
Locations: Hampden House, Great Hampden, England, UK

CAST
Barbara Kellerman (Laurie Morton)
Gary Bond (Terence Morton)
Norman Beaton (Mr Ngenko)
Matthew Blakstad (James)
Tariq Yunus (Charles Austin)
Christopher Reilly (William)
Daphne Anderson (matron)
Michael Hughes (mechanic)
Karin Scott (nurse)
Geoffrey Beevers (gravedigger)

PLOT SUMMARY

William Morton dies after eating a diet supplement, GT28, that has been fed to rabbits by his scientist father, Terence Morton. Terence and his wife Laurie adopt a boy called James from an orphanage who seems at first to be rather remote and distant. When Laurie cooks dinner only to find the food alive with maggots and a stuffed rabbit turns up disemboweled, they begin to suspect that William may be back from the dead and looking for revenge.

UK
Television Distributor: ITV

UK
Rating: 15

1980
October
4: UK - television broadcast (on ITV)

KEYWORDS

scientists; children; revenge; rabbits