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gave the film a C−, calling it "bland" and "mediocre", saying "a psychic mountain-climber" has "Koontz stretch(es) the limits of credibility", that the "murders are more graphic than anything I’ve seen on TV recently" but that the "constraints of prime-time don’t allow this movie to become truly
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as it was different from the roles she was typically offered at the time, which she described as "the nice girl or the mom". Actor Lee Horsley experienced some difficulty while filming, as his character had a phobia of heights and Horsley himself was not. He had to use one of his own phobias,
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During a snowstorm, a killer traps a former mountain climber who has psychic powers and his fiancee in a New York skyscraper office building. In order to escape, they will have to face impossible odds by rappelling down the outside of the building as if it is a mountain.
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rated the movie at two stars, writing that "Tension is maintained for the most part and if you have a fear of heights, you'll be in a perpetual sweat for about two-thirds of this TV movie."
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To create some of the scenes in the movie Pam Dawber had to be suspended from ropes. She had initially expected that most of the
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scenes would be filmed by stunt doubles, but found that the cast had to do many of their own stunts. Dawson had chosen to film
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Swedish VHS cover. (The English language version is mostly identical.)
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claustrophobia, to evoke the emotions needed for Graham.
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is a 1990 American thriller television film directed by
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Thriller
The Face of Fear
Dean Koontz
Dean Koontz
Farhad Mann
Pam Dawber
Lee Horsley
John Debney
Grant Rosenberg
Lee Rich
Warner Bros. Television
CBS
Farhad Mann
Pam Dawber
Lee Horsley
novel of the same name
Dean Koontz
CBS

Pam Dawber
Lee Horsley
Bob Balaban
William Sadler
Kevin Conroy
rappelling
Dean Koontz
The Wisconsin State Journal
Ken Tucker
Entertainment Weekly

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