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Karen Black,
Oliver Reed,
Burgess Meredith,
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Dan Curtis
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: MGM
: Horror, Supernatural/Occult, Ghosts
: 114 min.
: English
: English, Spanish, French
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Dan Curtis, director of TV's Dark Shadows series, directed this eerie haunted-house thriller about a house which draws energy from its inhabitants and selects its own "keeper" from the family of Ben and Marian Rolf (Oliver Reed & Karen Black), who rent the strangely-affordable house one fateful summer then find themselves slowly succumbing to its creepy powers. The photography is suitably moody, and many of the standard haunted-house cliches are used to decent effect -- particularly a violent scene in which the surrounding woods form a barrier to prevent the family station wagon from escaping the area -- but the pace is too leisurely overall, climaxing with the type of grim ending employed by nearly every mainstream horror film in the late 70's. Black's spooky looks are used to maximum effect, but are never quite as chilling as the final shot of Curtis's TV movie Trilogy of Terror from the previous year. ~ Cavett Binion, All Movie Guide
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by Bravegibson
January 28, 2008 - 9:01 AM PST
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1 out of 3 members found this review helpful
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| It has been quite sometime since I saw this movie as the second part of a twin bill with Carrie. I am too chicken to watch it again but I know it scared the hell out of me in High School. The image of that hearse driver haunted me for years. I was afraid to answer the door for fear that he would be on the other side. Haa haa. I am sure it probably doesn't hold up as well now but it was a great 70's scary movie to me!!! |
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