Hammer House of Horror: The Thirteenth Reunion (1980)

Country of Origin: UK
Date(s) of Broadcast: 20th September 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: Jeremy Burnham
Story Editor: Anthony Read

DIRECTION
Director: Peter Sasdy

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Frank Watts

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; Pound Street, Wendover, England, UK; St Leonards Road, Windsor, England, UK

CAST
Julia Foster (Ruth)
Dinah Sheridan (Gwen)
Richard Pearson (Sir Humphrey Chesterton)
Norman Bird (Basil)
Warren Clarke (Ben)
George Innes (Cedric)
James Cosmo (Willis)
Gerard Kelly (Andrew)
Michael Latimer (Dr Bentley)
Barbara Keogh (Joan)
Paula Jacobs (Joyce)
Roger Ostime (the butler)
Peter Dean (Charlie)
Louis Mansi (Rossi)
Kevin Stoney (Rothwell)

PLOT SUMMARY

Journalist Ruth Cairns investigates the sinister Think Thin slimming treatment being practiced at the Chesterton Clinic. She joins one of the groups and finds that one of the other members, Ben, is killed in a car crash shortly after taking a slimming pill. Even stranger, his body disappears from the undertakers and is replaced by a dummy...

UK
Television Distributor: ITV

UK
Rating: 15

1980
September
20: UK - television broadcast (on ITV)

KEYWORDS

journalists; clinics; hallucinations; cannibalism