Fear in the Night (1972 film)

Fear in the Night
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Jimmy Sangster
Written by	Jimmy Sangster Michael Syson
Produced by	Jimmy Sangster
Starring	Judy Geeson Joan Collins Peter Cushing Ralph Bates
Cinematography	Arthur Grant
Edited by	Peter Weatherley
Music by	John McCabe
Production company	Hammer Films
Release dates	9 July 1972 (1972-07-09) (UK) 18 October 1972 (1972-10-18) (US)
Running time	94 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Budget	£141,000[1]
Box office	£835,000

Fear in the Night (also known as Dynasty of Fear and Honeymoon of Fear^[2]) is a 1972 British psychological horror film directed, produced, and co-written by Jimmy Sangster and produced by Hammer Film Productions. The film stars Judy Geeson as a psychologically-fragile woman who, upon relocating to a rural boarding school where her husband has taken a job, finds herself being tormented by a mysterious figure with a prosthetic arm. Peter Cushing and Joan Collins, respectively, also star as the school's mysterious headmaster and his wife.

Like many horror films of its era, Fear in the Night has been noted for its usage of female hysteria as a central narrative motif, and was released as a double bill in the United Kingdom with Straight on Till Morning, another Hammer film featuring similar themes. In the United States, the film was released as part of a double bill with Demons of the Mind.^[3]