Following the suicide of her mother, an emotionally disoriented schoolgirl is swept away to live in the countryside by wealthy family friends. Her entangled need for comfort and desire to explore her powers of sexual fascination soon embroils the entire household.
Acting
Linda Hayden's terrifying vacancy — she's the shark in Jaws.
Production
That cramped house becomes a pressure cooker of repression.
Director
Alastair Reid
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Linda Hayden was 15 during filming, making several scenes legally unshowable in some territories. The producers leaned into the controversy hard.
This was Diana Dors' comeback attempt after tax scandal and bankruptcy — she's literally the ghost of swinging London's past haunting the frame.
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