Bernard Rose directs Charlotte Burke, Glenne Headly and Elliott Spiers in this dark children’s fantasy film where an inner city London school kid begins visiting the imaginary home that she draws in her sketchbook and the sad boy who is trapped within.

Almost definitely maybe watched this as a kid. And because it was directed by future Candyman director Rose everyone focuses on the ten minute terror sequence that closes the second act. “Anna, is that you?…. I’m BLIIIND!” The surrounding movie is a little bit CITV wobbly, a lotta bit modern gritty Alice In Wonderland. Rose infuses a deep brooding atmosphere to the whole endeavour that makes it very affecting. The acting and dubbing does hold it back. But the committed dream sequences, nightmarish or joyous, do make Paperhouse a one-of-a-kind.

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Perfect Double Bill: Flight Of The Navigator (1986)

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