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Adaptation of Robert Marasco's horror novel starring Karen Black and Oliver Reed, co-written by director Curtis and the co-creator of Logan's Run (William F. Nolan). Largely dull slow-mover (nobody said it was a bad adaptation) about a small family whose summer home -- a forbidding yet remarkably inexpensive mansion -- has a mind of its own. Marasco did little to illuminate the motivations of his characters (including the house) and this film does even less. With Betty Davis as Reed's elderly aunt and Burgess Meredith in a small role as co-owner of the house. Soporific.
Adaptation of Robert Marasco's horror novel starring Karen Black and Oliver Reed, co-written by director Curtis and the co-creator of Logan's Run (William F. Nolan). Largely dull slow-mover (nobody said it was a bad adaptation) about a small family whose summer home -- a forbidding yet remarkably inexpensive mansion -- has a mind of its own. Marasco did little to illuminate the motivations of his characters (including the house) and this film does even less. With Betty Davis as Reed's elderly aunt and Burgess Meredith in a small role as co-owner of the house. Soporific.