The Face of Fear (film)

During a snowstorm, a killer traps a former mountain climber who has psychic powers and his fiancee in a New York skyscraper office building. In order to escape, they will have to face impossible odds by rappelling down the outside of the building as if it is a mountain.

• Pam Dawber as Connie Weaver
• Lee Horsley as Graham Harris
• Bob Balaban as Ira Preduski
• William Sadler as Anthony Prine
• Kevin Conroy as Frank Dwight Bollinger

To create some of the scenes in the movie Pam Dawber had to be suspended from ropes.^[1] She had initially expected that most of the rappelling scenes would be filmed by stunt doubles, but found that the cast had to do many of their own stunts. Dawson had chosen to film The Face of Fear as it was different from the roles she was typically offered at the time, which she described as "the nice girl or the mom".^[2] Actor Lee Horsley experienced some difficulty while filming, as his character had a phobia of heights and Horsley himself was not. He had to use one of his own phobias, claustrophobia, to evoke the emotions needed for Graham.^[3]

Author Dean Koontz was brought on to co-write the script.^[4]

The Face of Fear aired on CBS on September 30, 1990.^[5][6]