Well-directed but cold and uninvolving. Eggar is excellent and always sympathetic as the doomed heroine and there is a fair amount of legitimate suspense in the first half, but Stamp is woefully miscast as the crazed "hero" and the film's overall lack of feeling is fairly distasteful.

Effective low-key suspense thriller, with the always wonderful Stamp exceptional, providing the template for the modern torture porn villian/anti-hero. Eggar matches him as Stamp's captive, and the film is remarkably suspensful and exciting at times (if the pacing is ocassionally a little slack and slow). Feels like a 70s film in its sometimes shocking and disconcerting violent and sexual material.

A really suspenseful film from beginning to end and Terrence Stamp was superb bringing to the screen a deranged, sick-minded man yet doing it in a way that mixes a disturbing air with sheer charm. Even as you acknowledge that he is a deeply unwell person you also find yourself sympathising with him bringing a delightful moral conflict for the viewer.

Wonderful performances and very tense throughout. It's never quite clear where things are going but the film does a good job of leading you along and making everything believable which adds to the creepiness of the entire situation.

Chilling Amazing movie and the book is good too. Clinical kidnapping event played brilliantly by Terence Stamp. It is a little dated now but leaves you with that chill of horror like The Vanishing with Kiefer Sutherland & Jeff Bridges

Don't waste your time on this if you've already read Fowles' novel, it barely adds anything to the original story, and while I loved reading it, watching this turned out tiresome tacky and boring, as it loses most of its dynamics, sub-plots and character depth, for example the regrets Miranda gets about her life and her unanswered love for a man called G.P.

Starts out pretty tiresomely, but does finally manage to get going. A lot of heavy-handed directorial touches. The Egg isn't much of an actress in this one (in an admittedly tough role); Stamp is good though. Definitely looks like a filmed play (even though it was oddly enough from a novel). Wasn't sure what the intent was: psychological horror, satire, spoof (the pixieish music on occasion didn't help this either). No wonder the guy was a mess though--his van looked like a big toaster.

Perverse film with a fine performance from Terence Stamp, who fills the screen with poetry and danger. (Eggar is little more than beautiful, but then little more is required of her; if it had been, perhaps this would be a better movie.) The themes of sexuality and dominance are obvious, but they are interwoven with others--romance, class distinctions, and culture as a marker for social class. All in all, a suspenseful, thought-provoking film--in spite of the predictable, cynical ending.

I was lined up to absolutely adore this film up until the very end. Stamp and Eggar are both glorious. However, I found myself deeply sympathizing with Franklin during the entire film, all the while, not sure if I was supposed to. However, I liked that moral ambiguity, until the ending of the film pretty much shut me down. It basically said to me in a few lines that Franklin was crazy, he never truly loved her, and he's nothing more than a serial kidnapper and murderer. Thanks, movie.

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