Creepy in the extreme, SEANCE ON A WET AFTERNOON is a real spine-tingler. In a rare film appearance, Kim Stanley is brilliant as Myra Savage, a self proclaimed medium who, along with her milquetoast husband, kidnaps a child and then comes forward to prove she has the power to find her. Stanley gives a gutsy performance...her mannerisms, of which there are many, serve her very well. She's slightly off-center to begin with and director Bryan Forbes exploits that for maximum effect. Although she's an awful person, Stanley makes Myra pathetically sympathetic. Her performance is matched by Richard Attenborough as her nervous nelly of a husband. A great, thoughtful, and rare horror film that relies on character as opposed to blood and gore to scare the wits out of you!
Review of Seance on a Wet Afternoon
