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The Hospice

1987 · 55 min

A queasy, slow-dread night where politeness curdles into something deeply wrong and you can't look away.

Directed by: Dominique Othenin-Girard
Genres: Horror, Tv movie
Starring: Jack Shepherd, Alan Dobie, Marthe Keller

Overview: When he loses his way on a country road and is bitten by an animal, Maybury stumbles across a strange house where an extravagant dinner is taking place.

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Directed by: Dominique Othenin-Girard
Genres: Horror, Tv movie
Starring: Jack Shepherd, Alan Dobie, Marthe Keller

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Tone
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: isolation
deception
fate
madness
survival
Places: countryside
single country house
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: single location
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	2
Horror	7
Humour	3
Realism	5
Romance	2
Tension	7
Darkness	7
Complexity	5
Emotional weight	5

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Genres: horror, tv movie
Directed by: Dominique Othenin-Girard
Written by: Robert Smith
Starring: Jack Shepherd, Alan Dobie, Marthe Keller, Jonathan Cecil, Gordon Warnecke, Joy Roston, Ian Longmuir
Runtime: 55 min
Country: United Kingdom
Languages: English

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