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Movie poster: Delusion (1981)
🎬 Movie
1981 · 91 min Horror
4.1 / 10 · TMDB

Meredith Stone, a home care nurse, has been assigned the duty of looking after a wealthy invalid named Ivar Langrock. Cooped up in Langrock's stately country mansion, Meredith quickly suspects that someone sinister is lurking in the manor's dark halls only to discover that Ivar's demented and violent son has been locked away in a hidden room. Shortly thereafter, Ivar's grandson Gabriel also moves into the house and with his arrival a mysterious killer soon begins murdering members of the Langrock family along with their live-in staff.

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📋 Film Details

Year 1981
Country United States of America
Genre Horror
Director Alan Beattie
Runtime 91 min.
Rating TMDB: 4.1/10 (14 votes)

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🎬 MovieFinder's Take

The film constructs a classic gothic mystery, relying on the isolated setting of a country mansion to build a pervasive sense of dread. It explores paranoia through creaking floorboards, figures in shadow, and dark family secrets as its primary engines of fear.

What lingers after the credits roll is the unsettling feeling of a house holding its breath, and the suspicion that true horror often wears a familiar face. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Alan Beattie

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Watch alone late at night with all lights off for maximum atmospheric dread.

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