''Cassandra'' is a 1987 Australian horror film
[David Stratton, ''The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry'', Pan MacMillan, 1990 p290] directed by
Colin Eggleston
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Colin Richard Francis Eggleston (; 23 September 1941, Melbourne – 10 August 2002, Geneva) was an Australian writer and director of TV and films. He began his career making police dramas for Crawford Productions.
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Plot
A young girl is haunted by nightmares of suicide and murder.
Cast
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Tessa Humphries
Tessa Humphries is an Australian actress, best known for her appearances in television soap opera.
Humphries made her acting debut in ''Cassandra'' as the title character, and had also played Mary Reynolds in '' Sons and Daughters'' and Corin ...
as Jill / Cassandra
* Tegan Charles as young Cassandra
* Lee James as Warren / Robert
* Dylan O'Neill as young Warren
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Shane Briant
Shane Briant (17 August 1946 – 26 May 2021) was an English actor and novelist. Briant studied law at Trinity College Dublin but became a professional actor playing the lead in ''Hamlet'' at the Eblana Theatre, Dublin. Briant is best known for ...
as Stephen
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Briony Behets
Briony Behets (born 1951, London, United Kingdom) is an English-Australian actress who found fame acting in Australian soap operas of the 1970s and 1980s
Early life
Behets' father worked as a civil engineer, which took him around the world and ...
as Helen
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Kit Taylor
Kit Taylor (born 1942) is an Australian actor, and the son of actor Grant Taylor. He made his acting debut as Jim Hawkins in the film ''Long John Silver'' (1954) and the associated TV series ''The Adventures of Long John Silver
''The Adve ...
as Harrison
References
External links
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''Cassandra''at Oz Movies
''Cassandra''at
AustLit
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Australian horror films
1987 horror films
Films directed by Colin Eggleston
1987 films
1980s slasher films
Australian slasher films
1980s English-language films
1980s Australian films
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