Shelley played Erika Breen, a blind switchboard operator, in the 1989 big screen thriller Blind Fear. Erika is working at a country lodge that had just been sold and is currently being boarded up. It is her last day of work and she is spending the night there along with the lodge's caretaker, Lasky, before leaving for Boston in the morning. Her cousin Harry will be picking her up then. But that very night, a gang of criminals who've hijacked an armored car earlier (and killed its driver) and is searching of a place to spend the night, invades the lodge. They kill Lasky and assume they're finally alone. But they're soon aware of Erika's presence which puts her life in mortal danger. But despite her disability, Erica manages to outsmart them all; and manages to... There's a surprise ending.
Blind Fear was released in October of 1989. It was filmed in Québec, Canada and runs for an hour and 27 minutes. Shelley's costars were Jack Langedijk, Kim Coates, Heidi von Palleske, Jan Rubes, Ron Lea, and Geza Kovacs. The film is gripping and a really good watch. It keeps the audience at the edge of their seats until it's bizarre and twisted finale. In July 2009, Shelley told her fans at the Hollywood Collectors Show a little bit about her experience while filming Blind Fear. She said that she wore a type of contact lens that blocked the vision and literally made her blind. She couldn't see anything when they were filming her scenes. (Thank you so much to Channel Surfing: Charlie's Angels for that bit of trivia.)
