{"id":122,"date":"2006-03-31T13:37:17","date_gmt":"2006-03-31T20:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=122"},"modified":"2021-01-16T21:30:13","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T04:30:13","slug":"scream-of-fear-taste-of-fear-1961","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=122","title":{"rendered":"Scream of Fear \/ Taste of Fear (1961)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;You say my mind is affecting my legs. You&#8217;re wrong: it&#8217;s my legs that are affecting my mind.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Scream-of-Fear-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Scream-of-Fear-Poster-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-22987\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Scream-of-Fear-Poster-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Scream-of-Fear-Poster-83x128.jpg 83w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Scream-of-Fear-Poster-669x1024.jpg 669w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Scream-of-Fear-Poster.jpg 1903w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nWheelchair-bound Penny (Susan Strasberg) returns to her wealthy father&#8217;s house for the  first time in ten years, only to be told by his new wife Jane (Ann Todd) that he has gone away suddenly on a business trip.  When she starts to see her father&#8217;s corpse appearing around the property, Penny believes she&#8217;s going crazy, and enlists the help of a hunky chauffeur (Ronald Lewis) to help her solve the mystery.  <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><strong>Genres:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Christopher Lee Films<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Disabilities<\/li>\n<li>Gaslighting<\/li>\n<li>Horror<\/li>\n<li>Susan Strasberg Films<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary&#8217;s Review:<\/strong><br \/>\nSusan Strasberg is mesmerizing in this heart-stopping Hammer Studios flick, reminiscent of both <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=1003\"><em>So Long at the Fair<\/em> (1950)<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=50\"><em>My Name is Julia Ross<\/em> (1945)<\/a> in its depiction of a young woman made to doubt her own sanity.  While the script is &#8220;full of holes&#8221; (wouldn&#8217;t Penny have met Jane at least <em>once<\/em> before?), the true identity of the villain(s) remains a secret to the end, and there are &#8220;several times when you are guaranteed to jump.&#8221; As Peary notes, this film remains &#8220;lots of fun for terror-movie fans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Susan Strasberg&#8217;s impressive performance as wheelchair-bound Penny<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/scream-fear-strasberg.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/scream-fear-strasberg.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5321\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Some genuinely freaky shots of a corpse<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/scream-fear-corpse.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/scream-fear-corpse.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5320\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Several exciting plot twists <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo, but it&#8217;s highly recommended.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0055505\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/classic-horror.com\/reviews\/tastefear.shtml\">Classic Horror Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/fantasticmoviemusings.com\/2017\/04\/26\/scream-of-fear-1961\/\">SciFilm Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You say my mind is affecting my legs. You&#8217;re wrong: it&#8217;s my legs that are affecting my mind.&#8221; Synopsis: Wheelchair-bound Penny (Susan Strasberg) returns to her wealthy father&#8217;s house for the first time in ten years, only to be told by his new wife Jane (Ann Todd) that he has gone away suddenly on a business trip. When she starts to see her father&#8217;s corpse appearing around the property, Penny believes she&#8217;s going crazy, and enlists the help of a&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=122\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63822,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions\/63822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}