The Attic

• Director: George Edwards
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• Genre: Thriller
• Movie Type: Psychological Thriller
• Themes: Fathers and Daughters
• Main Cast: Ray Milland
• Release Year: 1980
• Country: US
• Run Time: 92 minutes

Plot

After 1970's Diary of a Mad Housewife, actress Carrie Snodgress found her career moving in frets and starts rather than barrelling ahead. By 1979, Snodgress was making do with gothic horrors like The Attic. In a variation on a theme previously explored in The Barretts of Wimpole Street and The Heiress, Snodgress plays a shy, withdrawn young woman who is totally dominated by her tyrannical father Ray Milland. At father's insistence, she remains sequestered in her attic room, denied contact with any men. When she finally breaks free, a spectacularly bloody denouement is the result. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

Mark Andrews - Gardener; Fern Barry - Mrs. Mooney; Frances Bay - Librarian; Ruth Cox - Emily; Marjorie Eaton - Mrs. Fowler; Rosemary Murphy - Mrs. Perkins; Carrie Snodgress - Louise; Ray Milland - Wendell; Patrick Brennan - David; Punky Meadows - Dickey

Credit

Tom Rasmussen - Art Director, George Edwards - Director, Derek Parsons - Editor, Hod DAvid Schudson - Composer (Music Score), Gary Graver - Cinematographer, Raymond M. Dryden - Producer, Phillip Randall - Producer, Tana Cunningham-Curtis - Set Designer, Tony Crechales - Screenwriter, George Edwards - Screenwriter

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