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''Full Circle'', released in the United States as ''The Haunting of Julia'', is a 1977
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directed by
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, and starring
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and
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. Based on the novel '' Julia'' by the American writer
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, it is the first film realisation of one of his books, and follows a woman who, after the death of her daughter, finds herself haunted by the
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of a young girl in her new home. A co-production between Canada and the United Kingdom, the film was shot in London, and first released under the title ''Full Circle'', opening at the
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in September 1977. It was subsequently released theatrically in England and Canada in May 1978, through
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and Astral Films, respectively. The film went unreleased in the United States until May 1981, when it was given theatrical distribution through Discovery Films under the title ''The Haunting of Julia''. The film received mixed reviews from critics at the time of its release, with some praising its atmosphere and performances, while others deemed it either predictable or too plodding.


Plot

Julia Lofting, an American housewife living in
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, inadvertently kills her daughter, Kate, while performing a botched
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after Kate begins
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during breakfast. Kate's death traumatises Julia and fractures her already unstable marriage to her husband Magnus. Julia formally separates from Magnus, who is defiant against her wish to divorce. Seeking independence, Julia rents a large, fully-furnished house in
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. On the home's second floor, she finds one of the bedrooms filled with a child's possessions. Soon after moving in, Julia has a number of strange occurrences in the home, such as odd noises and appliances turning on by themselves. She begins to suspect Magnus is breaking into the house. In the park across the street, Julia sees a young girl that she believes is Kate, but the child disappears. Later, she again sees the girl in the park and finds a mutilated turtle and knife where she stood. Lonely, Julia holds a gathering of friends at her new home, including Magnus' sister, Lily. Lily brings with her Mrs. Flood, a
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who suggests that they conduct a
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. Julia is hesitant, but agrees to participate. During the séance, Mrs. Flood becomes frightened and tells Julia to leave the house immediately. Moments later, one of Lily's friends falls down the stairs before Mrs. Flood can explain what she saw. Later, Julia is informed by Mrs. Flood that she had a vision of a boy bleeding to death in the park. The next day, while Julia is out, Magnus breaks into her house. He sees something and follows it to the basement where he falls from the staircase, fatally cutting his throat on a broken mirror. Meanwhile, Julia, curious about the home's prior residents, learns from a neighbour that it once belonged to Heather Rudge, who sold the property after her daughter Olivia died. Upon further investigation, Julia discovers an article about Geoffrey Braden, a young boy who was murdered in the park in the 1940s. Julia visits Geoffrey's mother, Greta, who says a vagrant was executed for the crime but that she believes it was children in the park who murdered her son. Greta claims his murder was a
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motivated by the fact that Geoffrey was
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. She says she has followed the lives of the children who were in the park with Geoffrey that day, and asks Julia to visit the remaining two, now adults: Captain Paul Winter and David Swift. First, Julia visits Winter, but when she mentions Geoffrey, he forcefully tells her to leave. She then visits Swift, an
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who explains that Olivia had a sadistic power over him and the other children: He tells Julia that Olivia taught them about sex, and made each of them perform a
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of an animal. Swift recounts Geoffrey's murder, which was orchestrated by Olivia: She forced the other boys to hold him down while she shoved grass and clumps of dirt down his throat and then smothered him with a coat. After he was dead, Olivia used a penknife to
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him. Shortly after Julia departs Swift's apartment, he slips on a broken bottle in the stairwell and falls to his death. Meanwhile, Julia tells her friend Mark, an antiques dealer, what she has discovered but he does not believe her. That evening, Mark is electrocuted by a lamp falling into his bath. Julia visits Olivia's mother, Heather, in a psychiatric home. Heather confesses that she strangled Olivia to death after learning of Geoffrey's murder, and insists that Olivia was inherently evil. As Julia leaves she looks over her shoulder at Heather, who glimpses Olivia's eyes and dies of a fright-induced heart attack. Julia returns home, where she witnesses Olivia's apparition, first in the bathroom mirror and then in the living room playing with Kate's beloved cymbal-banging clown toy. Julia takes the toy from Olivia, offers her a hug, and asks her to stay. She proceeds to embrace Olivia, only to have her throat slashed by the sharp edges of the toy. Collapsing onto a lounge chair, Julia bleeds to death.


Cast


Analysis

Film scholar
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considers ''Full Circle'' an example of numerous supernatural horror films that utilise ghost children as a means of exploring humans' relationships to death, particularly the "dual (earthly/spiritual) nature of the little girl, and her propensity for entering other worlds... 
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presents a mother-daughter bond as particularly conducive to ghosts and haunting." Writer
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compares the film to
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's '' Don't Look Now'' (1973) due to its shared themes of the supernatural and the grief of losing a child, which unwittingly leads a mourning parent to their own demise.


Production


Development

Harry Bromley Davenport wrote the original screen adaptation of American novelist
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's '' Julia'' (1975), titling the screenplay ''The Link''. Dave Humphries retooled Davenport's version, and retitled it ''When the Wind Blows'' before director Richard Loncraine chose to retitle the film as ''Full Circle''. After finding little success convincing British film companies to fully fund the project, producer Peter Fetterman acquired capital from Canada's
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—a radio broadcasting conglomerate—to produce the feature. "I managed to persuade a group of musicians, their management, and
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s to put up 400,000 dollars between them," Fetterman recalled. "So now I had 500,000 from Canada, 400,000 dollars from England and I could raise 10,000 dollars in small units from private investors."


Casting

Fetterman initially travelled to
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to cast a "bankable" actress for the lead role of Julia, but this attempt proved unfruitful. After learning that Mia Farrow was performing in stage plays in London at the time, he returned to the United Kingdom and approached her backstage after a performance and asked her to appear in the film. Farrow, who at the time was mainly working in theatre, was reluctant to appear in the film, but ultimately convinced by Fetterman.


Filming

Filming of ''Full Circle'' took place in London over a period of seven weeks between November and December 1976 on a budget of CA$1.1 million. The production was reportedly rushed, as the film had to be finished before the end of the
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of its Canadian production company. Because of this, the screenplay, location scouting, and casting had to be completed within a three-week period. Actress Mia Farrow shot the film while simultaneously performing in a stage production of ''
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'' by the
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. Director Richard Loncraine stated that the shoot was at times tense, and noted that Farrow, whom he described as "an eccentric" but "well-mannered woman," disappeared for two days after suffering a nervous breakdown, which temporarily halted the production. At the time, Farrow had conflicting feelings about appearing in another horror film after '' Rosemary's Baby'' (1968), and had intended to approach the material as though it revolved around a woman's psychological breakdown, rather than an outright supernatural horror narrative. The film's interior sequences were shot in a home in
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, while the home's exterior was filmed using a different house elsewhere in London.


Post-production

The original cut of the film as it was shown at the 1977 Marché du Film was approximately six minutes longer than the final theatrical cut, and featured several alternate sequences. One of the most notable differences was the fate of Magnus: In the original cut, his character is not killed while breaking into Julia's home, and instead leaves the house angrily before departing to a social club. The film was recut in April 1978 after its screening at the Marché du Film to remediate what the producers felt were pacing issues that made it less "marketable".


Music

Composer Colin Towns's musical score for the film was written and recorded prior to the film ever being shot, and was composed based upon the screenplay alone. Towns's score received a vinyl LP release through
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, and was included as a
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on the 2023 limited edition Blu-ray released by Imprint Films.


Release

''Full Circle'' was screened at the Cannes Marché du Film in May 1977 before premiering at the
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on 11 September 1977 and at the Avoriaz Film Festival in France in 1978. The film opened in London on 4 May 1978 and in Canada on 19 May 1978 through
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, who also represented several American film studios, such as
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,
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, and
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. The film also received theatrical release in
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in the fall of 1980. In the United States, the film was released through Discovery Films under the title '' The Haunting of Julia'', opening in
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, on 6 February 1981 before premiering in New York City on 29 May 1981. It subsequently opened in
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on 1 July 1981, and later screened in
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beginning 2 October 1981. In the United States, the film still failed to find an audience. Due to poor storage conditions of the film elements between its initial completion and the U.S. release, the film stock attained a brown hue noticeable on American copies of the film.


Home media

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released the film on
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in the United States in 1981 under ''The Haunting of Julia'' title. It was re-released on VHS in 1988 by Magnum Entertainment. In January 2023, the Australian label Imprint Films announced they were releasing a limited edition
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edition of the film, along with its original musical score on CD, on 26 April 2023. The American distributor
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subsequently announced a 4K UHD Blu-ray edition, which was released in North America on 18 April 2023, while the
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announced a 4K UHD Blu-ray scheduled for release in the United Kingdom on 24 April 2023. The French distributor Le Chat qui Fume announced in January 2023 a 4K UHD Blu-ray edition due for release in July 2023.


Reception


Critical response

Upon its screening at the Avoriaz Film Festival, the film received "rave reviews" from numerous French film critics and won the Grand Prix prize for best feature. Following its premiere at the San Sebastian Film Festival, ''
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'' noted: "Some of the technical work is first-class, as are many of the supporting performances (you'll either like or hate Mia Farrow according to taste). But the film would have been more interesting as a proper study of a woman "under the influence" than it is a slightly more derivative tale of evil working from beyond the grave." Film critic
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, writing after the film's May 1978 release in the United Kingdom, praised Farrow's performance, as well as the film's cinematography and atmosphere, summarising that the film "is well worth seeing, even if it does suffer from those two well-known British cinematic deficiencies—lack of a really clear purpose and the narrative drive to go with it."
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of ''
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'' alternately felt the film was predictable, and that director Loncraine's "piling on the emptily brooding stylistics does little to help matters." Elizabeth Smith of the ''
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'' praised Farrow's performance as "harrowing," adding that "the tension is strong throughout, never a let-up or a breather...  you'll leave the movie drained of emotion. It's a terrifying film." ''
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'' noted that the film "has a fairly tight script which, in first half at least, builds up scary tensions nicely. There's a performance by Mia Farrow which is somewhat reminiscent of '' Rosemary's Baby'', and enough supernatural trappings to please those who are fascinated by the occult." Ernest Leogrande of the ''
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'' gave the film a one-and-a-half-star rating out of four, writing that it "seems to be structured around the themes of expiation and forgiveness...  utit's hard to get interested in the fate of the pallid Julia."
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of ''
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'' was unimpressed by the film, writing that it "manages to draw on every horror movie cliche imaginable and still make very little sense...  As directed by Richard Loncraine, ''The Haunting of Julia'' is virtually scareless, and the camera angles provide advance tipoffs to the few frightening episodes that punctuate the dull ones." ''
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''s Judith Martin gave the film a similarly unfavorable review, writing that the opening scene "has more of the real essence of horror to it than any number of walks down dark passages to the accompaniment of jangly background music. Unfortunately, after this one fresh approach, the film turns to dark, noisy walks," concluding that it "lacks the psychological logic of a good ghost story." In his book ''Uneasy Dreams: The Golden Age of British Horror Films, 1956-1976'' (2010), Gary A Smith describes the film as a "dark and depressing "
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" horror film." Conversely,
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, in ''English Gothic'' (2000), discusses the various Anglo-Canadian co-productions of the period, saying that "Much the best of these offerings is Richard Loncraine's quietly disturbing ''Full Circle''", noting also that "Loncraine makes the most of memorable cameos from fine character actors", and concluding that "the elegiac atmosphere Loncraine conjures up ... is almost tangible."


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