Guardian of the Abyss

United Kingdom

1980

60 Min

Color

English

Currently 3.2/5 Stars.
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PROD Brain Lawrence, David Reid, Roy Skeggs

CAST Ray Lonnen, Rosalyn Landor, John Carson, Barbara Ewing, Paul Darrow, Caroline Langrishe, Sophie Thompson, Sharon Fussey, Barry McDonald.

SOUND Peter Best, Stuart Edwards, Jack T. Night, Otto Snel, Bryan Tilling

Synopsis

Michael Roberts joins his friend Laura Stephens at an auction and talks her out of selling her newly-acquired mirror to a mysterious man who seems excessively eager to have it. When Michael takes it from her to have it appraised, its occult powers put him in the path of Allison, who has just run away from a secret society that wants to sacrifice her in order to conjure up a powerful devil. The head of this society is Charles Randolph, an evil hypnotist whom Michael will find extremely dangerous. —IMDb

Director

Don Sharp

Donald Sharp (born 19 April 1922, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia) is a British film director.

His most famous films were made for Hammer Studios in the sixties, and included The Kiss of the Vampire (1962) and Rasputin, the Mad Monk (1965). Also in 1965 he directed The Face of Fu Manchu, based on the character created by Sax Rohmer, here played by Christopher Lee. Sharp also directed the first sequel The Brides of Fu Manchu (1966).

Among his other credits are Curse of the Fly, the spy-comedy Our Man in Marrakesh (1966), the fantasy Jules Verne’s Rocket to the Moon (1967) and the 1978 remake of The Thirty Nine Steps, starring Robert Powell. He made another foray into spy culture with his feature-length reprise of the gritty Cold War TV drama, Callan (1974) starring Edward Woodward.

He also played the character Stephen “Mitch” Mitchell in the 1953 British science fiction radio series, Journey Into Space.

Sharp also directed the first great British rock ‘n’ roll… read more