The deliciously diverting, compellingly edge-of-seat Mary Higgins Clark psychodrama, 'A Cry in The Night' has an engaging plot, credible performances, with the picturesque locale providing a suitably isolated backdrop for this memorably macabre emotional meltdown. This competently written thriller also has a tantalizingly tweaked William Castle quality, adding a pleasing eccentricity to Mary Higgins Clark's turbulent tale of diabolical duplicity, and the dashingly handsome, immaculately coiffed Perry King is a sheer delight as the initially suave, seemingly family orientated Erich Krueger, whose increasingly toxic jealousies torments his wife Jenny (Carol Higgins Clark) to breaking point! Occasionally camp, yet divinely melodramatic, this lively, rewardingly creepy, conspicuously Canadian TV movie concludes in a wickedly warped climax that has far more to offer psychotronic fans than you might initially think possible! My main interest in the undeniably spry 90s thriller, 'A Cry in The Night' was Perry King's intense, masterfully menacing persona, plus the film's strident theatricality!
