A Reflection of Fear

In A Reflection of Fear a young woman, Marguerite (Sondra Locke), cloistered in a turn-of-the-century Victorian dream-world by her mother, vies for the attention of her visiting dad, Michael (Robert Shaw), both conventionally and sexually, in hopes that she'll get to live with him. Her plans are ...more

A Reflection of Fear belongs to a group of pre-slasher horror movies from the late '60s/early '70s, when Psycho's influence was more psychological than visual. They revolve around perverted puberty, films where the killers/monsters had been screwed up during adolescence -- usually from a parental figure -- so that sex becomes a physical threat that they defend themselves from by annihilating the bodies of others. With a final twist that out-skeezes them all, Reflection is a profoundly unsettling ...more