After a schoolgirl is raped while taking a short cut through the local woods, and another murdered a few days later, the police are baffled. With the help of a reporter, and against the wishes of a local psychologist, a young schoolteacher uses herself as bait to lure the perpetrator out.
Direction
Hayers squeezes dread from English countryside banality.
Cinematography
The woods become a suffocating character of their own.
Acting
Suzy Kendall's bait-turned-hunter transformation stings.
Director
Sidney Hayers
Suzy Kendall
Julie West
Frank Finlay
Det. Chief Supt. Velyan
Freddie Jones
Reporter
James Laurenson
Greg Lomax
Lesley-Anne Down
Tessa Hurst
Tony Beckley
Leslie Sanford
Anthony Ainley
Mr. Bartell
Dilys Hamlett
Mrs. Sanford
James Cosmo
Det. Sgt. Beale
Marianne Stone
Matron
Allan Cuthbertson
Coroner
Patrick Jordan
Sgt. Milton
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Marketed as 'The Creepers' in the US to ride the 'Texas Chain Saw' wave, despite being years earlier.
Lesley-Anne Down's debut; she was 15, playing a schoolgirl victim—production ethics were different beasts in '71.
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