Symptoms

1974

Action / Horror

4
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 59% · 4 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 59% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.4/10 10 1979 2K

Plot summary

A young woman is invited by her girlfriend, who lives in an English country mansion, to stay there with her. The estate, however, isn't quite what it seems--and neither is the friend who issued the invitation.

Director

José Ramón Larraz Photo
José Ramón Larraz

Top cast

Raymond Huntley Photo
Raymond Huntley as Burke
Angela Pleasence Photo
Angela Pleasence as Helen
Peter Vaughan Photo
Peter Vaughan as Brady
Mike Grady Photo
Mike Grady as Nick
720p.BluRay
837.16 MB
992*720
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 31 min
Seeds 3

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by glowinthedarkscars 6 / 10

If you're feeling sinister let the SYMPTOMS of fear be your minister

the plot is paper thin but what it lacks in story it makes up for in good acting, excellent cinema photography like visual poetry, and a creepy moody atmosphere. I watched it in black and white and it looked beautiful.. I may watch again in color just to compare. This is the kind of movie that needs to be remade.. fix some of the clunky dialog and establish a more cohesive story arc.. but then again the feeling of being lost as to what exactly was happening on screen is part of this movie's charm.
Reviewed by begob 7 / 10

Temporary ripple, no big splash

An odd woman takes her girlfriend to stay at her place in the country, but a former girlfriend has something to say about that ...Slow and creepy mystery. The atmosphere is set perfectly by photography and music, but especially through the overgrown lakeside estate from the early '70s, when locations were cheap. I'm not sure this is a horror - it does dabble in the ghostly, but really it's all about psychosis - although the gore is effective: films from this era relished their stabbing scenes, and the crunchy-cabbage sound effects in this one got me every time.The lead actress is excellent, and the performances all round are good, but the big drawback is in the character of the odd-job man: the performance is a little awkward, and the purpose of the character turns out mundane, missing the opportunity to make this a true horror, where things turn inside out and the past becomes cosmic truth. Ahem. In the end it's just a tale of bloody madness temporarily disturbing the surface of normality.Music sets the tone. Photography is mostly delicious, and the house and lake take on real character.Overall: Nicely disturbing, but falls short.
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