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Director:
Writers:
Michael Sloan (additional screenplay)
Michael Sloan (story)
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Release Date:
September 1979 (USA) more
Tagline:
Millions loved him, could someone hate him enough to kill and kill again? more
Plot:
A singer holes up at a sinister estate to write new songs for his act. The ghost of his murdered wife begins to haunt him, then the person who actually killed her shows up at the mansion. | add synopsis
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1 win more
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Effective but occasionally stodgy chiller more (16 total)
Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Jack Jones | ... | Nick Cooper |
| Pamela Stephenson | ... | Linda Everett |
| David Doyle | ... | Webster Jones |
| Bill Owen | ... | Mr. B |
| Sheila Keith | ... | Mrs. B |
| Holly Palance | ... | Gail Cooper |
| Peter Turner | ... | Harry |
| Richard Johnson | ... | Macauley |
| Patrick Brock | ... | Dr. Paulsen |
| June Chadwick | ... | Nurse |
| Penny Irving | ... | Girl Singer |
| Jeff Silk | ... | Police Officer |
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Also Known As:
Encore (UK) (alternative title)
The Day the Screaming Stopped (USA) (reissue title)
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USA:100 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Iceland:16 | Australia:M | Norway:16 (cut) | UK:18 (video rating) (1998) | UK:X (original rating) | USA:R | Germany:BPjM Restricted
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Director Pete Walker initially offered the role of Nick Cooper to Roxy Music singer Bryan Ferry and intended to shoot the film in the U.S. more
Soundtrack:
TRACES OF A LONG FORGOTTEN TUNE more
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Jack Jones, the seventies MOR crooner, doesn't disgrace himself with his central performance in this memorably demented chiller. Jones plays a pop singer attempting to record a new album in the surroundings of an apparently haunted country retreat, but he's distracted by the creepy staff (Sheila Keith and Bill Owen), his smarmy, secretly cross-dressing manager, the brutal murders of his ex-wife and trusted colleague, and a burgeoning relationship with groupie Pamela Stephenson. Whilst not as gory as FRIGHTMARE nor as fast-paced or compelling as HOUSE OF WHIPCORD, THE COMEBACK has more than enough touches of eye-popping kinkiness, blood-spattered madness and hallucinatory menace to keep discerning genre fans entertained. Just be warned that Jones's music on the soundtrack isn't his best (it sounds like a particularly wayward Scott Walker solo album), and if you're expecting another nonthreatening pop star movie vehicle, you'd do better to avoid this completely.