Directed by:
László BenedekCinematography:
Henning KristiansenComposer:
Henry ManciniCast:
Max von Sydow, Trevor Howard, Liv Ullmann, Per Oscarsson, Andrew Keir, Rupert Davies, Arthur Hewlett, Gretchen FranklinPlots(1)
A man named Salem escapes from an insane asylum where he was confined for an axe-murder. Falsely convicted under a plea of "guilty due to insanity," he does not plan to let his sister and her husband forget that they were responsible for the murder of a farmhand and for his cruel imprisonment in the asylum. (official distributor synopsis)
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The American-Swedish film The Night Visitor is a beautiful example of psychological horror, which also overlaps with the revenge genre with its violence, although don't expect this to be an explicit spectacle. My enthusiasm for this half-forgotten treasure is only disturbed by the ending, which in my opinion was not successful and should have simply been different. The laughter at the end was not supposed to be the laughter of a madman, but the laughter of a winner.
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