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Seance on a Wet Afternoon

Seance on a Wet Afternoon

7,2 /10 (116 Votes)
1964 EN 116 min

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.

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Release date

19/06/1964

Votes

116

Popularity

0.5

Was it magic... Or murder they planned?

Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

116 min

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John Chard

John Chard

2019-07-21

⭐ 8

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 ability, thus improving her standing in the psychic field. But as the story unfolds, Myra grows ever more close to the edge of insanity, could the still born death of the Savage's own child be the critical issue? Seance On A Wet Afternoon is something of a hidden/forgotten British treasure, not only be…

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