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I saw this movie as a child in Cali, Colombia in English with Spanish subtitles. It made a huge impression on me and I went to see it several times. Sara, played by Mia Farrow, is a young woman who has recently lost her sight. She is still learning how to operate as a blind woman in a sighted world and is visiting her aunt, uncle and cousin on their country estate. While she is out on a date with her boyfriend, her family is brutally murdered. When she returns home, she goes about the business of getting ready for bed. The audience sees what she cannot: the bodies of her aunt, uncle and cousin. The suspense begins there, when you know she will inevitably discover their bodies, as she does. The panic she feels is palpable and sets the tone for the rest of the film. The killer has inadvertently left an identifying calling card behind, one which she discovers by accident, just in time for him to come back and search for it. The race is on as Sara eludes the murderer in an attempt to avoid the fate her family met. Throughout the film there are visual clues to the killers identity but the culprit is still a surprise. Great suspense without the gore that is so often part of horror flicks nowadays.

British film of the Vietnam era with Farrow stealing the show in her role as a blinded girl recovering her place in the world.She's just beginning to re-connect with a former boyfriend when a mass murderer goes on a rampage, killing her entire household in beautiful,rural England. While the motive for the murders remains a mystery, it's Farrow who finds the corpses, a full 18 hours after their demise.It seems quite a "stretch" that the muderer, given several opportunities to kill Farrow too, especially at the end of the film,fails to do so. But, Farrow's incredible perfomance,surpassing that of Audrey Hepburn in "Wait Until Dark",has the power to overcome most of the weak points in the film's script. In summary, it's now a difficult film to locate, but one well worth the search.