A nice little drama for this week’s Weekend Movie offering. Shadow of Fear’s plotline revolves around a young woman, April Haddon, who returns to the UK from the United States after her father dies in a mysterious boating accident.

She returns to her childhood home that is now occupied by her stepmother who had been a carer for April’s late mother and who had married April’s father after her mother died. Her return to the home is unhappy, April finds new rules on smoking and drinking that her stepmother had imposed very irksome and the two women get off to a bad and hostile start.

As time goes by she starts to feel more and more suspicious about the manner of both her father’s death and the death of her mother, the accounts she’s been given by her stepmother and others don’t quite add up for April. April tries to dig into the circumstances of her parent’s death but is faced with a wall of silence about the deaths and her stepmother’s relationship with her father and mother from local people who have been convinced by April’s stepmother that the stepmother was a paragon of caring virtue.

April then sets out to find out if there is any evidence to back up her suspicions that all is not right with either her stepmother or the manner of her parent’s deaths.

Hope you enjoy this one, I did.