Screamtime

Screamtime is a 1983 British-American horror anthology film directed by Michael Armstrong and Stanley A. Long (dually credited as Al Beresford), written by Armstrong, and starring Jean Anderson, Robin Bailey, Dora Bryan, Ann Lynn, Yvonne Nicholson, Ian Saynor, and David Van Day. It was produced by Peter Long and Stanley A. Long. Presented as an anthology with a wrap-around story, the film opens with a pair of young men stealing three videotapes, which happen to each contain a tale of terror. The first story is about an evil puppeteer, the second is a haunted house story, and the third is about a caretaker in a haunted garden. The films second segment, "Dreamhouse", was remade and expanded to a feature-length film in 2010 as Psychosis, starring Charisma Carpenter. Plot Two young men enter a video store and steal three videotapes, which they take to a friend's house to watch. The three stories include "Killer Punch", about a puppeteer (Robin Bailey) slowly drawn to homicidal insanity by his nagging wife (Ann Lynn) and stepson (Jonathon Morris), "Dreamhouse", about a young newlywed couple (Ian Saynor and Yvonne Nicholson) whose lives are turned upside down when the wife begins having increasingly disturbing premonitions, and "Garden of Blood", the tale of a young man (David Van Day) who becomes a handyman of a house owned by two women (Dora Bryan and Jean Anderson) with the intention of robbing them, without knowing that the house has a garden protected by gnomes and fairies. The wrap-around story sees the men change the videotapes out for each segment, with a twist ending. Cast