updated: 03/07/2003
It’s usually a bad sign when a movie has multiple titles; and this one has also been released in various countries as Hypnotic and Close Your Eyes.
Professor Catherine Lebourg (Fiona Shaw) appears to be a frail resident of an old people’s home but she harbours ambitions to cheat death: such ambitions usually involve other people’s blood.
Fiona Shaw is ‘often acclaimed as one of our finest classical actresses’ with a string of stunning theatrical performances (often as high-octane, high-maintenance tragic heroines) to her credit but she’s probably most recognisable as Aunt Petunia in the Harry Potter movies.
Neill Gorton was responsible for this magnificant looking makeup and I am grateful to him for supplying and allowing me to use the two large images above.