Revenge (1971)

Joan Collins and James Booth star in this violent and chilling British thriller in the tradition of Straw Dogs. An ordinary family are driven to breaking point by the savage murder of their little daughter. Everyone knows who did it: Seely – an eccentric recluse who likes hanging around school gates. However, the police don’t have enough evidence to hold him and now he’s back on the streets. Joining forces with another victim’s father, Jim Radford and his son Lee decide to kidnap Seely and torture a confession out of him. It’s a decision that will have devastating consequences, as events spiral completely out of the victims’ parents’ hands with ever more shocking and terrible consequences . . . Vicious, tense and packed with shocking twists, Revenge is a true edge-of-your-seat thriller that will Keep you guessing until the very last moments . . .

1971, colour, 86 minutes