After the death of her daughter, wealthy housewife Julia Lofting abruptly leaves her husband and moves into an old Victorian home in London to re-start her life. All seems well until she is haunted by the sadness of losing her own child and the ghosts of other children.
Acting
Farrow's brittle, unraveling restraint — she whispers when others would scream.
Production
That Victorian house is basically the lead performance.
Direction
Loncraine lets dread accumulate like dust on velvet furniture.
Director
Richard Loncraine
Mia Farrow
Julia Lofting
Keir Dullea
Magnus Lofting
Tom Conti
Mark Berkeley
Jill Bennett
Lily Lofting
Robin Gammell
David Swift
Cathleen Nesbitt
Heather Rudge
Anna Wing
Rosa Fludd
Edward Hardwicke
Captain Paul Winter
Pauline Jameson
Claudia Branscombe
Peter Sallis
Jeffrey Branscombe
Arthur Howard
Mr. Piggott
Damaris Hayman
Miss Pinner
Susan Porrett
Mrs. Ward
Sophie Ward
Kate Lofting
Mary Morris
Greta Braden
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Peter Straub's novel 'Julia'; the film changes the ending entirely, softening Straub's bleaker conclusion.
Part of a brief 1970s wave of 'grief horror' where women's psychological pain became supernatural — think 'Don't Look Now' with more séances.
CA
GB
