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A young woman whose baby died in childbirth refuses to believe it and has dreams that her child is still alive and in danger. A scientist who is conducting experiments about dreams tries to help her.
Night Cries
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Susan Saint James Michael Parks Jamie Smith-Jackson Dolores Dorn Cathleen Nesbitt Britt Leach S. Pearl Sharp William Conrad Carl Byrd James Keane Jennifer Penney Lee Kessler Ellen Geer Diana Douglas Robert Starr Margo Ann Berdeshevsky Tracey Gold Bill Mallory Scott Mulhern Meeno Peluce Nichole Faustino
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29 Jan 1978
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every 70s tv horror movie in the melodrama tradition does way more interesting stuff with "women's issues" than most of the deliberately Feminist with a capital F horror films from the past decade, change my mind!! like i obviously love + prefer seeing women helm films about women & am grateful to see women have the opportunity to direct more mainstream films even if it largely reads as a PR move 🥴 but i started saying this the other day on my the craft legacy post, it feels like the only big movies women get to make are boxed into this boring simplistic overly crafted so as not to offend framework that's just...tedious to watch?? i'm not saying this movie is…
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A fantastic, intriguing, made-for-television movie with both horror and sci-fi elements, and a central mystery that actually turns out to be two different ones. Susan Saint James plays Jeannie Haskins, who is told shortly after giving birth that her baby has died. She goes into a deep depression and begins having disturbingly strange and vivid dreams which suggest to her that the baby may still be alive, but nobody will believe her. Her husband (Michael Parks) suggests that she go to see Dr. Whelan (William Conrad), an expert in dream studies. Though she fights him at every turn, they eventually discover the cause of some of the symbology and threatening atmosphere of the nightmares, rooted in a childhood trauma. Still,…
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Susan Saint James, who had played mostly dingbats up to this point in her career, is excellent as a young mother who awakens after childbirth and is told by her doctor (Britt Leach) and her husband (Michael Parks) that her daughter is dead. Three months later, she remains plagued by nightmares, imaginatively conceived by director Richard Lang (DON’T GO TO SLEEP) and director of photography Charles Arnold (11TH VICTIM). Eventually, she comes to believe her dreams are telling her that her baby is still alive, and she consults sympathetic sleep specialist William Conrad (CANNON) to find out.
Intended as ABC’s counterprogramming against the Golden Globe Awards (hosted that year by Jill Ireland and Charles Bronson), NIGHT CRIES is a soft…
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Effectively creepy made for tv movie that’s made slightly frustrating by the fact that the audience will uncover what’s going on long before the protagonist, even though a hammy William Conrad practically beats her over the head with it (the second twist at the end was unexpected).
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As 1970s TV movies evolved and started mirroring their theatrical counterparts, they got further and further from what was so unique about them. It sounds silly to say, but a TV movie made in 1978, Night Cries, is a refreshing throwback to earlier films like When Michael Calls and The Eyes of Charles Sand.
www.classichorror.club/post/tv-terror-guide-night-cries-1978
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Made for TV psychic dreams goodness. Susan Saint James is just such a brilliant actress.
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