The story begins with a family at home at night. A criminal has climbed into the son's room and the parents come running when they hear the boy screaming. The Assailant attacks the mother...temporarily blinding her. Then, he comes at the father with a knife. In self-defense, the father throws a snow globe at the attacker and the object kills the attacker.
After returning home from the police station, the father, Reverend Collins (George Nader), is shocked to see reporters at him home. They want to make a bit deal out of the incident and make out the Reverend to be some sort of hero. But Collins isn't interested in publicity and he sees the entire affair as a tragedy...which it is. He tosses the reporters out and just wants to be left alone. But he doesn't realize that he cannot just put the events behind him, as the dead man's father (Eduard Franz) begins stalking the family and appears to be up to no good. What's next? See the film and find out for yourself.
"Man Afraid" is a very exciting film, though it has one major flaw. The reaction of the police detective on the case really makes very little sense. Again and again, the cop has reason to detain the stalker...but again and again, he discounts it and does nothing. In fact, he even accuses the minister of possibly making all this up...which simply makes no sense. Had he underreacted a bit, the story would have worked much better. But such repeated underreactions just undermined the story. It's a shame, as otherwise it's a wonderful film and one that makes you wonder what you would do in such a situation. Still worth seeing but flawed.
After returning home from the police station, the father, Reverend Collins (George Nader), is shocked to see reporters at him home. They want to make a bit deal out of the incident and make out the Reverend to be some sort of hero. But Collins isn't interested in publicity and he sees the entire affair as a tragedy...which it is. He tosses the reporters out and just wants to be left alone. But he doesn't realize that he cannot just put the events behind him, as the dead man's father (Eduard Franz) begins stalking the family and appears to be up to no good. What's next? See the film and find out for yourself.
"Man Afraid" is a very exciting film, though it has one major flaw. The reaction of the police detective on the case really makes very little sense. Again and again, the cop has reason to detain the stalker...but again and again, he discounts it and does nothing. In fact, he even accuses the minister of possibly making all this up...which simply makes no sense. Had he underreacted a bit, the story would have worked much better. But such repeated underreactions just undermined the story. It's a shame, as otherwise it's a wonderful film and one that makes you wonder what you would do in such a situation. Still worth seeing but flawed.