As a Prelude to Fear

Mar 22, 2022

1h 37m

★ 6.0

Monsters come in all shapes and sizes

Overview

When a young cellist called Eve Taylor gets kidnapped and imprisoned in a dungeon-like basement, Police Detective Barnbrooke believes it is the work of the notorious psychopath the media has named "The Pied Piper". But having failed to stop him in over fourteen years and with three other girls missing-presumed dead, Police Detective Barnbrooke knows all too well that if he can’t pin down his only suspect this time, that Eve will find the same fate as the other Pied Piper Victims. Knowing the identity of the Pied Piper is one thing, but proving it in time is a different deadlier story.

Genres

Horror

Production Companies

Melomedia films

CASA Films

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Cast

Detective Barnbrook

Francis Magee

Eve Taylor

Lara Lemon

Jamie Harris

Jamie Langlands

DS Dobson

Lucy Drive

Giles Corcoran

Roger Wyatt

Jo ( as Amy Sutton)

Amelia Armande

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5.4

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As a Prelude to Fear

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