Cast and characters:
Rupert Davies … Edmund Yates
Sheila Keith … Dorothy Yates
Deborah Fairfax … Jackie
Paul Greenwood … Graham
Kim Butcher … Debbie
Fiona Curzon … Merle
John Yule … Robin (as Jon Yule)
Trisha Mortimer … Lillian (as Tricia Mortimer)
Victoria Fairbrother … Delia (as Pamela Fairbrother)
Edward Kalinski … Alec
Victor Winding … Detective Inspector
Anthony Hennessey … Detective Sergeant
Noel Johnson … The Judge
Michael Sharvell-Martin … Barman
Tommy Wright … Nightclub Manager
Andrew Sachs … Barry Nichols
Nicholas John … Peter
Jack Dagmar … Old Man
Leo Genn … Doctor Lytell
Gerald Flood … Matthew Laurence
Filming locations:
BBC Television Centre, Wood Lane, Shepherd’s Bush, London, England
Dawes Farm, Henley Common, Fernhurst, West Sussex, England (exterior and interior of the Yates’ farmhouse)
Haselmere, Surrey, England
Shepherd’s Bush Green, London, England (Edmund and Jackie meet up)
Technical specs:
1 hour 27 minutes (BBFC censorship cuts were required for ‘X’ certificate release to reduce the pitchfork murder, remove shots of blood dripping from Delia’s mouth during the poker murder, and a close-up of Graham’s mutilated face)
Black and white (opening sequence) | Eastmancolor
Aspect ratio: 1.37: 1
Audio: Mono
Alternate titles:
Also known as Frightmare II, Cover Up and Once Upon a Frightmare
Fun facts:
The original working title was Nightmare Farm.
Graham and Jackie go to see Marco Ferreri’s Blow Out (La Grande Bouffe, 1973), a film in which four rich friends gather at a country mansion to eat themselves to death.
Trailer:
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