Before Wes Craven and John Carpenter utilized the stalker-after-the-girl plot formula to win their horror fanbase in Hollywood, British director Peter Collinson created a movie that would serve as a landmark in the psychological horror/thriller genre – Fright. The movie has several shades of darkness, both external and internal.

Collinson’s Fright, released in 1971, is a chilling horror/thriller story about the terror of a night for a young woman, Amanda (Susan George), left alone to babysit a little boy in a big house by the woods. The child’s parents have not told her about a potential threat that could put her and the child at risk. And not long after Amanda is left home alone with the baby, the threat shows itself – Brian (Ian Bannen), the psychotic ex-husband of the house o...

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