I Start Counting (1970)
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Sixteen-year-old Jenny Agutter plays Wynne, a young teen infatuated with her much-older adoptive brother. When a serial killer murders women in the woods near her new housing estate, she begins to suspect him.
In I START COUNTING (1970), Wynne moves with her family from her childhood home in the country into a cramped flat in a new-town tower block. She still sneaks back to the old house, now slated for demolition, to relive memories of George, her grown adoptive brother, played by Bryan Marshall. As bodies turn up in the woods nearby, Wynne starts noticing things about George that frighten her, and she cannot decide whether to trust him or turn him in.
Agutter made this just before The Railway Children and Walkabout made her a star. Her performance holds the film's central tension, a girl discovering longing and dread at the same time, in the same person.
David Greene directs from a script by Richard Harris (not the actor), adapted from Audrey Erskine Lindop's novel.
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About the film
In the world of the nightmare, a little blood adds colour!
- Directed by
- David Greene
- Runtime
- 105 minutes
- Released
- October 27, 1970
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Starring
- Jenny Agutter, Bryan Marshall, Clare Sutcliffe, Simon Ward, Gregory Phillips
More credits
- Genres
- Thriller, Drama
- Language
- English
- Origin
- GB
- Studios
- Triumvirate Films, United Artists
- Written by
- Audrey Erskine-Lindop, Richard Harris
- Produced by
- Stanley R. Jaffe, David Greene
- Cinematography
- Alex Thomson
- Music
- Basil Kirchin
- Also starring
- Lana Morris, Billy Russell, Madge Ryan, Michael Feast, Fay Compton
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Wonderful film that’s not really horror.
Gilby Wilbur Gordon I didn’t read anywhere that mentions horror…
Really a cinema jewel, delicate and exciting. One of my favorite coming-of-age movies. Jenny Agutter is lovely.
Never seen the film but read the book years ago and stuck in my mind so much
Richard Bray
Basil Kirchin made a great theme song for it
It was a B movie supporting another film, I forget which. Really good. I remember who the villain was but won’t spoil…
Brent E. Cagle
I first saw Jenny Agutter in Logan’s Run, a circa 1978 futuristic movie where when you turn 30, you were “sent to Sanctuary”, but in reality you were just killed. I was in high school and loved this movie!
Joan Douglas-Fry I was 7 when Logan’s Run came out and probably saw it when I was 10. That movie— the whole concept absolutely terrified me.
Landie Canfield Me, too!
As a young teenager, I was in love with Jenny Agutter. I can’t even remember what film I saw her in at the time, but she certainly was a beauty.
A friend of mine dated her for a year or so. Yes ….. Lucky bastard. She was very nice and unprepossessing.
my hubbie loves her in Logan’s Run, i love her in American Werewolf in London.
Love this film, and she’s amazing in it!
Great coming-of-age “thriller”. I found it quite poignant.