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i must have seen a different film!!

Absolutely Fantastic

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Barbara Stanwyck (Ruth) and her niece Kitty Winn (Sara) move into a new house in the country. We know it's haunted as we watch them through someone else's eyes from an empty room, having just heard a soundtrack to some evil event that previously occurred there. Neighbour Richard Egan (Pat) drops by to welcome them and invite them to dinner. It's here that they meet college student Michael Anderson Jr. (Stan), Egan's relative Mabel Albertson (Mrs McDougall) and friend Doreen Lang (Sylvia). The cast is now complete and we follow proceedings as Lang suggests a séance at Stanwyck's house and all agree to attend. God knows why she does this. It's just not the first thing you think of for a house warming! Unfortunately, Lang is a very annoying mystic who screams a lot. Shut up and do your channelling properly! No screaming. It should be rule number one. I went to a séance and nobody screamed – it is not necessary. Anyway, she's not in the film much, thank goodness. Things don't get much better, though. Whilst this film does have a few set pieces that keep you watching, there is nothing new in any of it and you can guess what's going to happen from the beginning. I got the whole story pretty early on. Maybe it's because I've watched lots of these kinds of stories, but maybe it's because the film is just not very good. I needed something more tricky. My wife thought it was amateurishly done as the cast explain in simple fashion what they are going to do. Other reviewers have likened it to Scooby Doo and the plot solving is very much like that. There are also the obligatory stupid moments when things that are needed are dropped or sharp objects handed to people who clearly shouldn't be holding these objects based on passed performance! Still, this is not a gore fest so it scores on that front. It passes the time but there's not much to this offering, especially if you've seen a couple of these types of film

Ruth (Barbara Stanwyck) has inherited a Colonial period house from a distant cousin and she brings her niece, Sara (Kitty Winn), to live there with her. However, despite it being a beautiful home, it will lead to awfulness as the home is possessed by the long-dead and not always friendly inhabitants. Strange things start happening soon after they arrive and instead of getting out of the place or burning it to the ground, they stay with two new friends (Richard Egan and Michael Anderson Jr.) to try to piece together the pieces to a long-buried puzzle. And, hopefully, in doing so they'll finally allow these spirits to rest once and for all.This film works for three reasons. First, like so many of the made for TV movies ABC made during that time, the mood was incredibly creepy and really worked to keep the audience in suspense. Second, the script was surprisingly good for a film made for TV...better than you would ever expect. And, third, the acting was so very good as well. Overall, a film well worth seeing...provided you can find it! And, fortunately, it is currently posted on YouTube.

Okay, first off, it's a very scary name for a very mediocre movie. Originally a TV-movie created by TV legend Aaron Spelling, who was known for much better stuff that this, the movie is one of eight haunted house films on a single DVD under the title, "Haunted Hollows," and is the oldest movie in the set, the rest having been made in the years of 2000 to 2010. It's not scary, nor is it very suspenseful, but then it was made as a television movie. Actress Barbara Stanwyck was a prominent leading lady through the Fifties and the Sixties and is possibly best known as the matriarch from the series, "The Big Valley." She plays a woman who inherits a home from a distant relative and moves into it with her niece. There are some strange occurrences, some weak séance scenes and a lot of mystery concerning the house, but we never see any ghosts. The activity is basically limited to voices in the night, gusts of wind and a door opening and closing by itself. The rest of the supposed paranormal are left to what the actors can do to pretend to be possessed. Richard Egan gets to act mean and nasty, but the rest of Katherine Winn's acting abilities seem to be limited to how fast or weird she can manipulate her eyebrows or how loud she can scream. Michael Anderson rounds out the cast as the next rational mind to not let the supposed hauntings get to him. One of the most noticeable parts is just how fast the movie zips along through the scene changes. In one scene, a portrait falls and gets ripped, but jump to the next morning, and its fixed! Another thing, I'm not sure where the movie is filmed, but the exterior of the house looks like it could be the same house from "The Waltons." It's a little campy, but Stanwyck plays it very seriously. Overall, it's worth a look just out of curiosity, but it is not very memorable.

I remember seeing this on TV when it was first broadcast back in the `70s. I remember a "big, bold" haunted house movie with a great mystery and climax. Sadly, when I finally got a copy, I found this to be a rather "small" film. The story/plot isn't very engaging and people say and act in very "odd" ways--and I don't mean appropriate to the genre! All of the sudden, someone will act weird, then normal, and no one seems to pay much attention to their behavior! And once the mystery is solved...the movie just ends. So that "climax" I remember doesn't seem to have existed. Anyway, I say pass on this.