They had to change the TV ad for this movie because it was frightening children.
Seems like there were a number of movies like this back then, suprisingly respectable horror/thrillers. I don't know if they existed ten years later.
Anthony Hopkins plays Corky, a magician and ventriloquist who becomes more and more unhinged.
Hopkins is the only guest in an isolated lakeside hotel run by Ann-Margret. His agent, Burgess Meredith, arrives and finds Hopkins in a fierce argument with his dummy, Fats. When he leaves to get Hopkins psychiatric help things take a turn for the worse.
Burgess Meredith, looking dignified without his wig, plays a stronger character than usual.
Directed by Richard Attenborough. With Ed Lauter, David Ogden Stiers and Jerry Houser.
Available on HBO.
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