Featured Audience Ratings

• Universal D

  
  A powerhouse, a haunted house, of a psychological thriller as a curious London couple plan and execute the kidnapping of a wealthy family's daughter. Stanley and Attenborough deliver pitch perfect performances as the couple with an ugly past.

• AJ V

  
  This movie has both an interesting story and interesting characters. If you like psychological thrillers, you'll like this movie. I really liked it.

• Stella D

  
  decent mid-60's suspense thriller starring richard attenborough, who kidnaps a child to please his delusional wife, played by kim stanley. primarily a stage actress, stanley made only a handful of films and this is worth seeing for the fine performances.

• Stephen M

  
  An eerie little drama about a medium and her hen-pecked husband who carry out a kidnapping to prove the former's powers of clairvoyance. It goes without saying that the performances of Kim Stanley and Richard Attenborough could not be bettered, but the film really needed a… More
  An eerie little drama about a medium and her hen-pecked husband who carry out a kidnapping to prove the former's powers of clairvoyance. It goes without saying that the performances of Kim Stanley and Richard Attenborough could not be bettered, but the film really needed a Polanski or a Claude Chabrol to realise its full creepy potential. It is, however, easily the best Bryan Forbes movie I've seen, with a couple of fine suspense sequences.

• jay n

  
  time has taken the edge off this but the acting by the two leads is great.

• Laura C

  
  The title sets up this eerie, atmospheric film that left me with an unsettled feeling, as good thrillers should. Very interesting character study of Myra who works as a psychic out of her home and dominates her soft-spoken husband, Billy. Quite incredibly, Myra convinces her husband… More
  The title sets up this eerie, atmospheric film that left me with an unsettled feeling, as good thrillers should. Very interesting character study of Myra who works as a psychic out of her home and dominates her soft-spoken husband, Billy. Quite incredibly, Myra convinces her husband to kidnap a child and hide her somewhere so she can then use her "powers" to help find her hoping that this will validate her work and give her some much desired fame and recognition. These characters are quite piteous and while they do something that is quite wrong there is a sense that they truly believe they are causing no real harm, they are quite delusional really. They are sympathetic characters in that they seem to be outsiders in their society and that interestingly enough their marriage seems strong in that their commitment to one another is evident. Worth watching for the performances alone. That in addition to the rich atmosphere and complex characters makes this film a highly effective thriler.

• Stephen E

  
  "Séance on a Wet Afternoon" is a low-budget psychological thriller that deals with a dominating medium, her asthmatic husband and her plot to kidnap a wealthy couple's child in order to make her famous. The best reasoning I can think of it to give it a watch is the… More
  "Séance on a Wet Afternoon" is a low-budget psychological thriller that deals with a dominating medium, her asthmatic husband and her plot to kidnap a wealthy couple's child in order to make her famous. The best reasoning I can think of it to give it a watch is the performances of Kim Stanley and Richard Attenborough, who are both just terrific in their roles. (Attenborough actually outdoes Stanley, whose performance garnered her an Oscar nomination.) Other than that, it's a pretty much by-the-numbers thriller.

• Emily B

  
  Don't let the title fool you, this is not a horror, but a brilliant British thriller involving a medium who along with her push-over husband kidnap a young girl just to gain celebrity. The acting of Kim Stanley and Richard Attenborough is probably the best thing in the film.… More
  Don't let the title fool you, this is not a horror, but a brilliant British thriller involving a medium who along with her push-over husband kidnap a young girl just to gain celebrity. The acting of Kim Stanley and Richard Attenborough is probably the best thing in the film. Stanley was nominated for an Oscar for her performance and should of won. A creepy, suspense thriller which is defiantly recommended.

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