Overview
Housewife Rosemary Edmonds leaves her family to take up residence in a remote cottage on the Otago coastline so that she can conduct a photographic essay on the yellow-eyed penguin. No sooner has she moved in than she becomes the victim of a series of increasingly more malevolent attacks from an unknown assailant.
Fun facts
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Filming locations
Filmed in New Zealand
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Allen Guilford
Details
- Director
- Writer
- Melanie ReadWriter
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- July 17, 1985
- Original language
- English
- Countries
- New Zealand
Cast
- Annie WhittleRosemary Edmonds
- Judith GibsonFrances Hunt
- Christopher BrounJames Edmonds
- Philippa MayneAnna Edmonds
- Stephen TozerMichael Edmonds
Martyn SandersonAlan West- Lee GrantMrs. Jones
- Frances EdmondPolice Constable Miller
Teresa WoodhamPublisher- Allison RoeAllison
- Karen SimsReporter
- Maggie EyreMiss Walsh
- Margaret BlayGhost
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