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Summary: Don't wait, see it NOW!!!
Review: This movie is a suspenseful mystery, not a movie filled with blood and gore. This movie tells people of this day and age that you don't a lot of blood and gore to be scared out of your wits. I am a young pre teen myself and I especially loved this movie. Even my sixteen year old brother and his friends liked it!!!
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Summary: Great Thriller
Review: Alan Arkin and Audrey Hepburn are first rate in this great thriller. Be sure to stock up on ice cold beverages to drink during the movie.
What hinders one person may help another.
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Summary: Wait Until Dark
Review: I agree with Sue, regardless of how many times you watch this movie you are going to be pleased. The first time I saw this movie was back around 1971 in college one night when the movie was being shown in the cafeteria. To this day I still remember the one sceen where I felt like jumped a couple of feet into the air along with everyone else. It's been a long time since I last saw this movie and I have been waiting for the DVD release for a couple of years.
So turn out the lights and get ready for a very good movie that I am sure you will enjoy.
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Summary: Excellent Movie
Review: When I got my DVD player, this was one of the first movies I looked into buying. I'm so glad it's finally on the way. While I wouldn't call it a horror movie, it is one of the scariest films I've ever seen. There is one scene that makes me jump a mile every time I see it, even though I know exactly what's coming. Audrey Hepburn and Richard Crenna do an excellent job, and Alan Arkin makes for a classic creep. I would recommend this movie to anyone who likes a good thriller. Just make sure you have a pillow to grab onto for those scary moments!
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Summary: This is a scary film!!!!
Review: I don't care for gory films or just plain teen-horror. This film had me literally almost peeing on myself. Especially the last fifteen minutes. It was nail biting. Audrey Hepurn was excellent as the woman who was not going to be a victim. Her resolve to fight back and not let the bad guys kill her was just the best ending in cinematic history in the thriller/suspence genre. "Wait Unitl Dark", is right up there with "The Changeling", "The Exorcist", "The Shinging", and all the Hitchock films when it comes to be frighting. I screamed at the ending and if you seen this film and know what I'm talking about then you know that part was scary. My hands even got sweaty. Even my friends jumped and said it was scary. Being of the generation that grew up on teen-horror and gory style killing, we take for granted the old style of horror that truly is scary. Films like, "Sorry, Wrong Number" with Barbra Stanwick are scary and absolutely suspenceful. The films ending was scary too and right up there with this film. Watch this and you will not soon forget it.
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Summary: Genuinely scary, and one of Hepburn's finest performances
Review: This was the last film that Audrey Hepburn made before she retired at age 38, deciding to quit while she was still on top. Although she later made ROBIN AND MARIAN with Sean Connery, and made a few later appearances in later films, this was the end of her star career. Appropriately, it is one of her very greatest performances, with her skills as an actress, if anything, continuing to grow. Audrey plays a woman left alone in her apartment who is preyed on by three men attempting to recover a doll filled with narcotics her husband has accidently acquired. The cast carries this film. Audrey Hepburn is so good that it would have succeeded regardless of what anyone else in the film had done. As a recently blinded person learning to cope with her new condition, she is utterly convincing. She manages to persuade completely the viewer that she really is quite vulnerable yet completely unwilling to give in to her situation. Alan Arkin, in one of his earliest film roles and his first since his Oscar nominated performance in THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING, THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING!, gives a chilling performance as Roat, the leader of the bad guys. It was interesting casting, since Arkin was primarily a comedian, one of the founders of the Second City comedy troupe. It is one of the finest performances of his career. Richard Crenna was primarily known as a TV performer at the time, having been a regular on two of the most successful shows of all time, OUR MISS BROOKS and THE REAL McCOYS. He is very effective as the con artist who comes to like and admire his would-be victim. It is not a perfect film. If one didn't already know that it had been a stage play, any perceptive viewer would be able to tell by watching. It is a profoundly "stagey" production, and the way the various characters traipse in and out of her apartment is a bit hard to swallow at times. It feels too much like characters walking on and off stage in a theater. Still, the acting is so exceptional and the situation so compelling that it is easy to cut the film a lot of slack. I will add that the last fifteen or twenty seconds of the film are a little off putting. It functions on a symbolic level, but it unsatisfying emotionally. I wanted to scream: "Just go give the woman a hug, you jerk!" The last thirty minutes of the film really are about as scary on a psychological level as anything Hollywood has produced. When it was originally shown in theaters, in the scene where Audrey Hepburn begins breaking all the light bulbs in her apartment, the theater would either darken or dim the lights in the house, with each bulb she would shatter. In the spirit of that, I definitely recommend watching this one in a darkened house.
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Summary: Audrey Hepburn and Alan Arkin are Fantastic!
Review: This film adaptation of the play Wait Until Dark is wonderful and even after seeing it a few times I still find it suspenseful and very riveting! I think Audrey Hepburn was fantastic as Suzy Hendrix a woman who has recently been blinded in an accident, and Alan Arkin is fantasic as the sadistic and psychotic villain who is stalking her because she unknowenly has something that he wants, I have an old movie and video guide book written by some critic who said Alan Arkin was miscast but I don't agree with that at all, I think he gave an outstanding performance! Though this movie may not be scary in a horror film sort of way, it's scary in a psychological drama sort of way and I highly recommend this movie! Several Years ago HBO or Cinemax had shown a filmed version of the stage play and I thought it was pretty good, I don't remember who was in it though but would love to see it again and I wish they would put it on video and DVD well I would especially like it on DVD and also this movie version should be on DVD too!
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Summary: Effective thriller
Review: A blind woman (Audrey Hepburn) must use all of her wits to survive the machinations of three criminals (Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna, Jack Weston) who are trying to retreive a doll stuffed with heroin that has mistakenly come into her possession. Toward this end, they employ a number of complicated and entertaining deceptions to achieve their objective. The script (by Robert & Jane Howard-Carrington, from the play by Frederick Knott) is tight and compelling, effectively overcoming the disadvantage of being set almost entirely within the confines of a single room. Hepburn gives a fine performance, but it is really Arkin's chilling portrayal of a psychopath that steals the show. Director Terence Young also uses a number of effective techniques to present certain key moments through the perception of a blind person.
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Summary: A very intense thriller
Review: A recently blinded woman is terrorized by a sociopathic drug dealer who is seeking packets of heroin mistakenly left in her apartment. The stunning Audrey Hepburn (in an Oscar-nominated role) shines as Suzy Hendrix, and Alan Arkin matches wits with her as the dealer (he also plays two other roles) in a game of cat-and-mouse that builds to a hair-raisingly tense and exciting climax. Hepburn is in top form in one of her better performances, a believable mix of vulnerability, terror, and gutsy, raw courage. Sweat-inducing and nerve-wracking at times, poignant and touching at others, "Wait Until Dark" still packs a wallop and is one of the best suspense films ever made. Recommended to anyone who likes a good thriller, and fans of "Panic Room" and "Blink" may also like this taut and well-made movie.
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Summary: Really Creepy!
Review: Audrey Hepburn stars as a recently blinded woman who unknowingly gets a doll filled with narcotics. The drug dealers wait until she is alone, and then search her apartment, terrorizing her. Hepburn must use every bit of her cunning to survive the attack. Audrey seems much too capable and stylish to convince us she is really blind (how does she put on her make-up?), but Arkin, as the head drug dealer, makes up for it. He is so cruel, creepy and repulsive, you will be on the edge of your seat. I've never forgotten this film because of his electrifying performance. I recommend it for those who like to be scared--you will be!
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