Adapted from Audrey Erskine-Lindop. A fifteen year old girl, played by Jenny Agutter, is in love with her forty year old step-brother (Bryan Marshall), even though she suspects he might be the local serial killer. To complicate matters she witnessed the death of his fiancee when a child and is obsessed by their former, derelict, family home. Meanwhile her friend Corinne Eldridge (good) is boy hungry. Add in to the mix a bus driver (Simon Ward) and a white rabbit and other Alice in Wonderland references. The ending is deliciously weird after edge of seat stuff.
Set in an unusual Bracknell location, which looks pretty much a building site. Jenny's drunk scene is great.
Nicely performed and handled, e.g. Jenny's fantasy scenes, well photographed and edited by Alex Thompson and Keith Palmer.
It was a treat to see it newly restored on Blu-Ray.
David Greene was married seven times. As Jenny was so young he told the crew that none of them were allowed to swear - they didn't.
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