The Ghoul (1975)

Country of Origin: UK
Year of Production: 1975
Running Times: 88 mins
Length:
Format: 35mm
Colour Format: photographed in Eastmancolor
Ratio:
Sound:

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Company: A Tyburn Film production
Copyright: © MVMLXXIV Tyburn Film Productions Limited
Produced by: Kevin Francis
Production Manager: Ron Jackson

SCRIPT
Screenplay by: John Elder (real name: Anthony Hinds)

DIRECTION
Directed by: Freddie Francis
Assistant Director: Peter Saunders
Continuity: Pamela Davies

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: John Wilcox
Camera Operator: James Bawden
Gaffer: Harry Woodley
Grip: Reg Hall
Stills Photographer: Douglas Webb
Perocessed by: Rank Film Laboratories

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Film Editor: Henry Richardson
Assistant Film Editor: Roy Helmrich

MUSIC
Music Composed by: Harry Robinson
Music Supervisor: Philip Martell
Recorded at: Anvil Studios

SOUND
Sound Recordists: John Brommage, Ken Barker
Sound Editor: Roy Baker
Assistant Sound Editor: Berverley Collings

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Costumes Designed by: Anthony Mendleson
Executed by: Bermans & Nathans of London
Wardrobe Supervisor: Bridget Sellers
Make-up: Jimmy Evans
Hairstylist: Joan Carpenter

SPECIAL MAKE UP EFFECTS
Make-up Created by: Roy Ashton

VISUAL EFFECTS
Process Photography: Charles Staffell

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: Jack Shampan
Assistant: Peter Williams
Properties: Nick Rivers

MISCELLANEOUS
Production Accountant: David Ball
Production Assistant: Caroline Langley
Assistant to Kevin Francis: Lorraine Fennell
Choreographer: Johnny Greenland

LOCATIONS
Made on location and at Pinewood Studios, London, England

CAST
Peter Cushing (Doctor Lawrence)

Starring
John Hurt (Tom Rawlings)
Alexandra Bastedo (Angela)
Gwen Watford (Ayah)
Veronica Carlson (Daphne)

with
Stewart Bevan (Billy)
Ian McCulloch (Geoffrey)
John D. Collins (young man)
Dan Meaden (police sergeant)

Andf Introducing
Don Henderson as the ghoul

PLOT SUMMARY

Doctor Lawrence, a former priest, live sin a remote mansion with just a gardener and Indian mystic for company. A group of young people, lost in the fog, stumble on Lawrence's home and his terrible secret - locked in the attic is his cannibalistic son who is soon on the loose...

CAPSULE REVIEW

Another excellent performance from Peter Cushing enlivens an otherwise drab shocker from Tyburn Productions. Cushing makes it more than worth your time, but the plot is dull, the pace sluggish and the racial stereotyping objectionable. The period setting is well realised by Francis and some of the scenes in and around the foggy mansion are genuinely atmospheric.

UK
Video Distributor: Rank

Australia
Rating: M

Norway
Rating: 18

UK
Rating: 18

1976
Catalonian International Film Festival, Sitges, Spain
Medalla Sitges en Plata de Ley: Best Actor (Peter Cushing) - winner

ALTERNATIVE TITLES

The Thing in the Attic

REFERENCES

MAGAZINES

Halls of Horror no.27 p.22
note

Radio Times 11-17 June 1988 p.82
credits

BOOKS

Hoffman's Guide to SF, Horror and Fantasy Movies 1991-1992 p.154
review, credits

Horror and Science Fiction Films Volume II p.154
credits

OTHER SOURCES

screen
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KEYWORDS

cannibalism, cannibals, car races, fog, gardeners, priests

Last Updated: 15 October, 2008