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U.S. poster (1977)
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Directed by | Pete Walker |
Produced by | Pete Walker |
Written by | David McGillivray |
Starring |
Lynne Frederick John Leyton Stephanie Beacham John Fraser |
Music by | Stanley Myers |
Cinematography | Peter Jessop |
Release date
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11 November 1976 (UK) |
Running time
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109 min |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Schizo is a 1976 slasher film directed by Pete Walker and starring Lynne Frederick.
When figure skater Samantha Gray (Lynne Frederick) gets married to businessman Alan Falconer (John Leyton), a sinister man from her past, William Haskin (Jack Watson) starts stalking her, making her depressed. Then the grisly murders start.
Time Out wrote: "Walker and writer David McGillivray's most ambitious project to date attempts to shake off the low-budget horror/exploitation tag with a move into more up-market psychological suspense. If the formula is threadworn - a trail of victimisation, sexual paranoia, and murder in the wake of the heroine's wedding - at least some effort is made to locate it (rich middle class London). But things collapse disastrously in the second half. Caught between sending itself up and taking itself seriously, the film ends closer to the silliness of Francis Durbridge than to the menace of Alfred Hitchcock."
The film was made in London in 1976.