Trial Run (1984)
Country: NZ
Technical: col 89m
Director: Melanie Read
Cast: Annie Whittle, Judith Gibson
Synopsis:
A modern emancipated woman gets caught up in haunted house shenanigans while on an assignment for a wildlife publication (and in between jogs).
Review:
The running is the key, in fact, for the heroine's training for a 1500m run turns out to have a definite connection with the bumps in the night: the computer-mad son hopes to help her to make up vital seconds by giving her practice in running for her life. Quite apart from the preposterousness of this premise, there are all sorts of details left unexplained, not least the appearance of the ghost itself! More interestingly the film appears to wish to draw an analogy between the discouraging incidents in the house, family advice to give up and come home, etc. and the obstacles still present in society to women's liberation. Social comment or thriller, this is decidedly low-profile stuff. As the hauntings proceed none too thrillingly, the viewer is gradually keyed up for a cataclysm which never comes.
Country: NZ
Technical: col 89m
Director: Melanie Read
Cast: Annie Whittle, Judith Gibson
Synopsis:
A modern emancipated woman gets caught up in haunted house shenanigans while on an assignment for a wildlife publication (and in between jogs).
Review:
The running is the key, in fact, for the heroine's training for a 1500m run turns out to have a definite connection with the bumps in the night: the computer-mad son hopes to help her to make up vital seconds by giving her practice in running for her life. Quite apart from the preposterousness of this premise, there are all sorts of details left unexplained, not least the appearance of the ghost itself! More interestingly the film appears to wish to draw an analogy between the discouraging incidents in the house, family advice to give up and come home, etc. and the obstacles still present in society to women's liberation. Social comment or thriller, this is decidedly low-profile stuff. As the hauntings proceed none too thrillingly, the viewer is gradually keyed up for a cataclysm which never comes.
Country: NZ
Technical: col 89m
Director: Melanie Read
Cast: Annie Whittle, Judith Gibson
Synopsis:
A modern emancipated woman gets caught up in haunted house shenanigans while on an assignment for a wildlife publication (and in between jogs).
Review:
The running is the key, in fact, for the heroine's training for a 1500m run turns out to have a definite connection with the bumps in the night: the computer-mad son hopes to help her to make up vital seconds by giving her practice in running for her life. Quite apart from the preposterousness of this premise, there are all sorts of details left unexplained, not least the appearance of the ghost itself! More interestingly the film appears to wish to draw an analogy between the discouraging incidents in the house, family advice to give up and come home, etc. and the obstacles still present in society to women's liberation. Social comment or thriller, this is decidedly low-profile stuff. As the hauntings proceed none too thrillingly, the viewer is gradually keyed up for a cataclysm which never comes.