Көлеңке Желдеткен 1970 Жылғы Трилер

1970 film

And Soon the Darkness is a 1970 British thriller film directed by Robert Fuest and starring Pamela Franklin, Michele Dotrice and Sandor Elès. The plot follows two British nurses on a cycling holiday in rural France; during their trip, one of them vanishes, and the other struggles to search for her in a rural community. It was the first movie made under Bryan Forbes at EMI Elstree to be released (Hoffman had been produced first but was released later). Clemens said "after deciding to do a thriller we made things difficult for ourselves by insisting that all the action take place in broad daylight It's very easy to frighten people in the dark because darkness itself is frightening but we thought it would be nice to frighten people in daylight." Clemens reportedly wrote the script in two days. Clemens took the project to Bryan Forbes who had just been appointed head of production at EMI Films. Forbes liked the project and agreed to finance. It would be the first film made greenlit by Forbes. (The second was The Man Who Haunted Himself with Hoffman being the third.) It was shot entirely in France.

The film did moderately well at the box office on both sides of the Atlantic, but was not a big success. It got Forbes' regime at EMI off to a bad start.

The Guardian said "I will be charitable and say nothing." In 1971, The New York Times reviewer stated: "Until the disappearance and for a while afterward everything goes very well toward building tension with understated effects. But eventually, by mere repetition, the understated effects begin to look like poverty of the imagination. Then terror becomes a function of gratuitous camera technique, and danger the product of dishonest characterization." Halliwell's Film Guide comments: "Slow, overstretched, often risible suspender long on red herrings and short on humour, but with some pretension to style." Time Out described it as an "[u]nappealing women in peril thriller" which is "[p]redictable, implausible, and not a little nasty." In contrast, the film was listed seventh in the Cinefantastiques list of the top ten sci fi/horror films of the 1970s. Frederick S. Clarke, the magazine's editor, called it "a lady in distress picture that for suspense tops anything of its kind." Clemens was involved in producing and storyboarding the film, and said it inspired him to try directing. He later commented, "My business partner (Albert Fennell) said 'You should have directed it' and suddenly I thought 'Yeah, perhaps I should have done'. I knew I could have directed it better." He wrote what became See No Evil for Forbes at EMI; after Forbes left the company the film was made at Columbia. Clemens eventually turned director with Captain Kronos, Vampire Hunter.

The film was released as a DVD in the US with an audio commentary by Fuest and Clemens, and released in the UK as a region 2 DVD at the end of January 2008.

An American remake of the film was released in 2010.