Seance on a Wet Afternoon
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Seance on a Wet Afternoon

Seance on a Wet Afternoon

7.2/ 10

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116

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1964

Release Year

116 min

Runtime

Crime
Thriller
Drama

Overview

Working-class British housewife Myra Savage reinvents herself as a medium, holding seances in the sitting room of her home with the hidden assistance of her under-employed, asthmatic husband, Billy. In an attempt to enhance her credibility as a psychic, Myra hatches an elaborate, ill-conceived plot to kidnap a wealthy couple's young daughter so that she can then help the police "find" the missing girl.

Keywords

london, england
husband wife relationship
based on novel or book
ransom
kidnapping
medium
working class
black and white
mental illness
occult
séance
british new wave
loss of child
stillbirth

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8.0avg rating
John Chard

John Chard

July 21, 2019

8
8/10

Because your weak, and you need me. Myra Savage is a struggling psychic, who along with her weak-willed husband, Billy, kidnap the young daughter of wealthy parents. The plan is to extort money from the fretting parents and then for Myra to help the parents find the child with her psychic abilit

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