![]() ![]() He uses an anatomically correct medical dummy named Pin (it’s a contraction of Pinocchio) to teach them about the facts of life, though Ursula has worked out that the voice is really that of her father using ventriloquism. ![]() ![]() Fifteen years earlier, seven-year-old Leon (Jacob Tierney) and five-year-old Ursula (Michelle Anderson) live in the house with their clean-freak mother (Bronwen Mantel) and cold, emotionally detached doctor father (Terry O’Quinn, late of The Stepfather (1987)). ![]() One of the spots a motionless figure in the window that causes him to panic when it suddenly blinks. Pin… was another adaptation, based on a novel by Andrew Neiderman (whose 1990 novel The Devil’s Advocate would be brought to the screen by director Taylor Hackford in 1997), a twisted psycho-sexual thriller featuring one of the most dysfunctional families in film.Ī group of young boys egg each other on to look through the windows of the sort of spooky old mansion that has a fearsome reputation in small towns. Among his previous writing credit, he’d penned television films The Strange and Deadly Occurrence (1974), Where Have All the People Gone (1974) and Red Alert (1977) and for the big screen he’d adapted Jay Anson’s blockbuster The Amityville Horror in 1979. Sandor Stern had been a prolific writer and some time director of television when he turned his hand to this, his debut feature film. ![]()
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