The Man Who Haunted Himself

1970

Action / Drama / Mystery / Thriller

10
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 55% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.4/10 10 3392 3.4K

london, england mental breakdown cult film doppelgänger serious accident male executive

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Plot summary

Executive Harold Pelham suffers a serious accident after which he faces the shadow of death. When, against all odds, he miraculously recovers, he discovers that his life does not belong to him anymore.

Director

Basil Dearden Photo
Basil Dearden

Top cast

Charles Simon Photo
Charles Simon as Porter
Thorley Walters Photo
Thorley Walters as Bellamy
Roger Moore Photo
Roger Moore as Pelham
Tony Wright Photo
Tony Wright as Man in Club
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779.31 MB
1268*720
English 2.0
PG
Subtitles
24 fps
1 hr 34 min
Seeds 1
1.48 GB
1888*1072
English 2.0
PG
Subtitles
24 fps
1 hr 34 min
Seeds 5

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by John Chard 8 / 10

The Pelham Paranoia. With its 1970s chic cheese

The Pelham Paranoia. With its 1970s chic cheese and swagger and Roger Moore's excellent performance, The Man Who Haunted Himself has a considerable cult fan base. Directed by British legend Basil Dearden, plot finds Moore as Harold Pelham, who after being involved in a serious car accident, comes around from the trauma to find that his life is being turned upside down. It seems that somebody is impersonating him, people he knows swear he was in places he hasn't been, that he has been making decisions at work that he knows nothing about, and that he has a sexy mistress that threatens to destroy his marriage. Is he going mad? A victim of a collective practical joke? Or is there really something more sinister going on? Don't be a slave to convention! So yeah! A cult gem waiting to be rediscovered is The Man Who Haunted Himself, it has a plot that positively bristles with intrigue. As the doppleganger motif is tightly wound by Dearden, who smartly sticks to understated scene constructions as opposed to supernatural excess, there's a realistic and human feel to the story. The makers are not going for jolt shocks, but taking a considered approach that has the pertinent mystery elements lurking in the background, waiting for their chance to reveal themselves for the utterly thrilling finale. A finale that is bold and special, obvious but not, and definitely tinged with cunning ambiguity. With Moore drawing on talent from his acting pool that many thought he didn't have (two different characterisations smartly realised here), and Dearden pulling the technical strings (love those off-kilter angles and multi mirrored images), this is a film that has surprises in store all across the board. 8/10
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Reviewed by gridoon 7 / 10

Haunting.

A fascinating story - a man haunted by his doppelganger - and Roger Moore's excellent performance(s) make this film worth seeing, even though it overelaborates its point somewhat (the situation becomes clear to us long before Moore figures it out). Still, what we have here is an example of how a good movie can be produced on a relatively low budget, as long as it has a strong script and dependable actors. (***)

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