Cassandra

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Ruane</B></div> <div> <B>Music................Trevor Lucas & Ian Mason</B></div> <div> <B>Producer...........Trevor Lucas</B></div> <div> <B>Executive Producers......Phil Gerlach & Micael Borglund</B></div> <div> <B>Optical Effects by Paul Whitebread</B></div> <div> <B>Special Effects by Illusions and Effects</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Dramatis Personae</U></B></div> <div> <B>Helen...........................Briony Behets (Long Weekend)</B></div> <div> <B>Sargent Harrison........Kit Taylor (Long John Silver)</B></div> <div> <B>Robert..........................Lee James</B></div> <div> <B>Cassandra..................Tessa Humphries</B></div> <div> <B>Libby............................Susan Barling</B></div> <div> <B>Graham.......................Tim Burns (Mad Max)</B></div> <div> <B>Cassandra as Child..Tegan Charles</B></div> <div> <B>Jill................................Tessa Humphreys</B></div> <div> <B>Warren (child).............Dylan O'Neill </B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Critique</U></B><B>: This is a typically low budget Australian piece. The film does keep you guessing about who the little boy in the dream is. Is it the insensitive Graham? The slightly off Robert, someone else? And what is the connection between the killer and Cassandra? It is really quite well done, with good acting and fine direction. Close up shots of various objects keep the suspense moving. Perhaps these are scenes of her father's youth and he is the killer. Was the suicide woman really Stephen's sister? But what was the point in all the psychic stuff? The eye effect is pretty disconcerting. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Plot Summary</U></B><B>: Black and white photographs are sorted and some are burned; one is placed in the false bottom of a drawer. While a little girl tosses stones into a creek, in a nearby house a woman aims a shotgun at her own chin. As the child races to stop her another little boy is muttering "do it". There is a shot and the little girl arrives too late. A full grown woman, Cassandra, wakes up from this dream and tells another woman about it. Cassandra arrives at her father Stephen's photography studio, where he has just taken on an assistant, Graham. Stephen and another woman seem to know something about the events in the Cassandra's recurrent dream. Cassandra visits her strangely sleazy boyfriend Robert in a bar where he works. When he shows no concern for her dream, she becomes angry. Cassandra goes to the house of the dream, and tosses some stones in the brook. The house has been abandoned to stray pigeons. She searches through the black and white photographs and reaches for the drawer which falls thus freeing the photograph of the shotgun suicide woman. Adulterer Stephen is having an affair with his model Libby and Cassandra catches them in some compromising positions. Stephen says the photograph is of his sister who died in a car accident before Cassandra was born. Back at the relationship, when Cassandra says she hardly knows him, Robert says he feels he's known her all his life. The assistant, Graham, leaves the photo shoot early, leaving Stephen to finish the processing. Someone watches the studio after the shoot. Libby is followed home. Somehow, at home lying in her bed, Cassandra seems to be aware of these events. The eye flashes in. A carving knife is drawn. The knife wielder approaches her in bed as Cassandra calls. We see someone leaving the house. Stephen returns from processing the photographs from the day's shoot and screams. "Who killed Cock Robin?" is on a blown up photograph. Stephen returns home and his wife knows about the murder because Cassandra told her. Helen says that "she" was having the same sorts of nightmares Cassandra was having before "she" died. Cassandra says she saw Libby's death. She also saw Daddy's sister die and a terrible grinning little boy. The police arrive and ask Cassandra how she knew that Libby was dead. Her answers are unconvincing. Graham looks over the pictures of the dead Libby and notes to Stephen that she looks great and they ought to use them. This strikes Stephen as insensitive. Robert talks about fears from his childhood and escorts Cassandra out to the brook where again she tosses stones, but nothing is resolved. Someone is now watching Helen at the dress shop where she works. She hears something in the other room and finds she is with the killer. She sees the killer (with a leather jacket) sneak up on her in a mirror and stabs him as he comes for her with the knife. She makes an escape as he runs at her while she's in the car. When she gets home she finds "Who killed cock robin" on her mirror. Cassandra is awake again and following the events as the killer appears to have gotten in the house with Helen, who arms herself with a meat cleaver. However, she soon loses it in the struggle. The killer with surgical glove in hand picks up the cleaver and begins breaking down the closet door where Helen has hidden herself. Cassie remembers that the little boy in the dream was named Warren. The assistant is the murderer. She admits to Sargent Harrison that she is the sister and that her mother killed herself. It had been kept a secret for Cassandra's sake. She had found her mother and was crushed. She says that they put Warren in a home as he was uncontrollable. He was released a few months before and they'd had no contact with him. Cassandra is now haunted by dreams of Warren surrounded by fire. Graham sneaks into Helen's car and when she drives off he's there with her. Cassandra follows the scene in her mind's eye as the killer comes to Stephen and cuts him and then stabs him in the stomach. Warren's image flashes and says "I'm dead" to Stephen as he stumbles about. Soon the very real killer comes at him with a shovel. When Cassandra arrives at the scene she sees the images of the child Warren as well. Cassandra goes to the old house and sets a fire in the fireplace. Robert tells Cassandra to call Helen and bring her to the old house. As Helen is leaving, Harrison tells her that he didn't know anything about this. The killer sings "Who killed cock robin? I killed the sparrow with my bow and arrow". He says that his parents were brother and sister and therefore evil. He says that everyone must die, and Cassandra and Helen are the only ones left. Someone runs out in front of them in the road and they spin off into a ditch. Harrison is knocked out leaving Helen to fend for herself. Soon an axe gets to work on the car. Helen has a gun but she seems to be a novice with it. Someone (Graham) is hanging upside down dead in the house. It looks like Warren has them dead to rights. Harrison stumbles into the house and receives an axing. Cassandra pours gasoline on him and he seems to revel in it as he burns with the old farm house. </B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>