Paperhouse details
Movie Details:
- Director: Bernard Rose
- Produced By: Vestron, Working Title Films
- Year: 1989
- Run Time: 92 minutes
- Country: UK
- Language: English
- MPAA Rating: PG13
- Category: Feature
- Genre/Type: Drama, Fantasy
- Filmed In: Color
- Release: 1989 02 17 (USA)
- Key Cast: Charlotte Burke, Glenne Headly, Ben Cross, Elliott Spears, Gemma Jones, Sarah Newbold, Ros Hubbard, Steven O'Donnell, Full Credits
Eleven-year-old Charlotte Burke, the neglected daughter of Ben Cross and Glenne Headley, passes out on the school playground and dreams of visiting a house she'd previously drawn in her composition book. She imagines another visit to her "paper house" while playing hide-and-seek. Experimenting, Burke draws a figure in the window of the house; the next time she dreams, she meets a young boy, as lonely as she. Convinced that she wields a large degree of power in her pencil, Burke draws a picture of her father, Cross, hoping that in doing so he will return home. But Burke is dissatisfied with the picture, and crosses it out--whereupon Cross shows up in her dreams as a murderous stalker. What happens next is a maelstrom of psychological horror, told completely from the child's point of view. Paperhouse is based on Marianne Dreams a novel by Catherine Storr. by Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Keywords:
- dream
- friendship
- nightmare
- rampage
- reality
- teenagers
- virus
- supernatural-forces
- coming-of-age
Themes:
- Fantasy Life
- Fantasy Lands
