Straight on Till Morning

1972

Action / Thriller

12
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 43% · 2 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 43% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.7/10 10 1670 1.7K

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Plot summary

Brenda, a timid, withdrawn woman, meets Peter, a man she believes is finally the love of her life. However, little does Brenda know that Peter is a vicious serial killer.

Director

Peter Collinson Photo
Peter Collinson

Top cast

Shane Briant Photo
Shane Briant as Peter Clive
Rita Tushingham Photo
Rita Tushingham as Brenda Thompson
John Clive Photo
John Clive as Newsagent
James Bolam Photo
James Bolam as Joey
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783.15 MB
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English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 36 min
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1.5 GB
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English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 36 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by richardwworkman 7 / 10

Lucid NIghtmare.

This is not your usual Hammer House film.The Brenda character is perhaps one of the strangest in cinema. She's desperately naive to the point of delusion. Los in her own fantasy world of fairytale endings she struggles to engage in the realy of her new life in London. The dog kidnapping scene where Brenda transform into a fairytale character of her own creation is a perfect example of this.The weirdness and disconnectedness of the characters of swinging early 70's party scene reflects the lucid dream like quality of the film. The film occasionally jumps to alternative scenes, sexual, ordinary, her mother back home, they all suggest that Brenda's decisions could have led her down a different path.When it seems that Brenda's bizarre plan to find a husband is starting to pay off, she stumbles into another person's fairytale. Peter offers Brenda what she wants but in exchange he takes her personality, renaming her as a character in his own delusional fantasy.What follows is a superbly sinister and uneasy relationship. The tension between Peter and Brenda moves between a kind of marriage of convenience, dark sexuality and childish fantasy.A brilliant example of 70's British horror. Well worth a watch.
Reviewed by tim-764-291856 7 / 10

Hammer Horror meets Kitchen Sink,

When this was up on The Horror Channel, it was Rita Tushingham's name that caught my eye, her brilliant acting and intensity laying down an intriguing gauntlet.With Radio Times not even giving a review, or even a rating, I was worried that it might be dreadful and true, many could see some parts as such, especially if they had taken them out of context and not watched it all the way through. However, from its opening, it was obvious that this was a well-made and directed (by Peter Collinson) little movie.Not only is it a good and interesting snapshot of swinging London, it is also a warped fairytale about a reclusive serial killer. Who's the beauty and who is the beast? Should we and can we be loved for beauty alone?Describing the story is unnecessary; it is a shortish film and it's the issues involved, often psychological and deeply sinister plus the often imaginative directing that are the pluses. The acting of the leads Tushingham and Shane Briant are very good with just the right amount of every emotion going. The popular James Bolam also co-stars.There is often a sense of unease, even during the less intense parts. Oddness also often takes a lead but never enough for us to dismiss them. The most intense, X-Rated (still certificate 18) scenes are disturbing rather than graphic but they still shock.Unlike many Hammer Horror's, it remains memorable, the ordinariness mixing with the oddness plus the central characters making for an unusual and compelling mix. I enjoyed it.
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