Symptoms is a 1974 British

Cinema of the United Kingdom

The United Kingdom has had a major influence on modern cinema. The first moving pictures developed on celluloid film were made in Hyde Park, London in 1889 by William Friese Greene, a British inventor, who patented the process in 1890. It is generally regarded that the British film industry...

 horror film

Horror film

Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres...

 directed by José Ramón Larraz

José Ramón Larraz

José Ramón Larraz is a Spanish director of exploitation and horror fims such as the erotic and bloody Vampyres ....

. It was entered into the 1974 Cannes Film Festival

1974 Cannes Film Festival

- Jury :*René Clair *Jean-Loup Dabadie *Kenne Fant *Félix Labisse *Irwin Shaw *Michel Soutter *Monica Vitti *Alexander Walker *Rostislav Yurenev -Feature film competition:...

. Although circulated privately through bootlegs, the original prints are missing, and was last shown on British television in 1983.

Plot

A young woman is invited by her girlfriend, who lives in an English country mansion, to stay there with her. The estate, however, isn't quite what it seems--and neither is the friend who issued the invitation.

Cast

• Angela Pleasence
  Angela Pleasence
  Angela Pleasence is an English actress. She is the daughter of actor Donald Pleasence and his first wife, Miriam Raymond. The surname for both daughter and father has occasionally been miscredited as "Pleasance"...
  
  
• Mike Grady - (as Michael Grady)
• Lorna Heilbron
  Lorna Heilbron
  Lorna Heilbron is a Scottish actress born on the 8 June 1948 in Glasgow.She appeared in television series such as Ace of Wands, Van der Valk, Blake's 7, Taggart and Lovejoy...
  
  
• Raymond Huntley
  Raymond Huntley
  Raymond Huntley was an English actor who appeared in dozens of British films from the 1930s through to the 1970s...
  
  
• Marie-Paule Mailleux
• Nancy Nevinson
• Ronald O'Neil
• Peter Vaughan
  Peter Vaughan
  Peter Vaughan is an English character actor, known for many supporting roles in a variety of British film and television productions. He has worked extensively on the stage, becoming known for roles such as police inspectors, Soviet agents and similar parts...