Tyreece Hulme
One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.
Anoushka Slater
While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.
Juana
what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.
carey6567
I watched this film with my girlfriend, thinking it would be really exciting and scary after reading all the positive reviews on here. After sitting though this for 90 minutes, it turned out to be a real dull experience for both of us. I really wanted to like the film but I just couldn't. The film lacked any real eeriness or shocking scenes. The house was not creepy to create an environment of fear and all the attempts at any chills or horror where all standard stuff. Dennis Weaver played the husband and father to his wife and children, his character came across as a weak and pathetic individual who was unable to take charge or do anything except winge and whine like a girl and drink alcohol. He wasn't the take charge kind of Father of Husband. He reminded me of his Character "David Mann" in his most famous film "Duel" as a weak businessman that was having marital problems and being stalked by a truck on the road. He could not carry this film or get me interested in caring for his character.The scene with the giant green lizard was hilarious and just stupid; you could see this thing travelling through the house with the camera behind it, being carried to a bedroom by someone and then crawling on a bed with silly terrifying music in a bid to build up the scene. It is then seen slowly crawling under the covers with its webbed feet on the sleeping grandma's pyjamas and crawls up to her neck. Oh my goodness, it gives her a heart attack and next thing we see her in a stretcher! The psychiatrist scenes are flat and uninteresting. Robert Webber is very wooden with his acting and seems very miscast and the script lacks any clever psychological mind games between the sister and psychiatrist. The film plods along with various cast members being killed and hurt in accidents. All scenes are very standard and nothing is scary. The final scene that everyone seems to think is terrifying is just a joke! Shiver me timbers what was that! A 10 second scene with an apparition appearing in a bedroom and then the credits start rolling, if you're under 10 years old you might have been shivering with fear but not as an adult. Stay away from this one!
adkins_taylor1
watch-movies-online.TV has a copy of this movie. It is amazingly done especially for its time and TV-movie status. I first saw this movie when I was 7 or 8 years old and all I remembered was bits and pieces. I have looked and looked for a way to find even the title to this movie. I talked to movie buffs and finally entered the correct key words into google search and found a summary that fit my memory. I then began looking for a copy of this movie, and though it definitely should have been, it wasn't released on video. today a friend introduced me to the website above and for giggles and hahas I looked to see if it had this movie. It did and after watching it again, I found that it was not just my age that made this movie scary. It is a genuine suspense/thriller.
jdollak
I've rated this movie higher than I would if it were theatrically released. One of the biggest problems with nearly every TV movie is pacing. Arranging the story so there is enough suspense to keep an audience through commercials tends to create awkward pacing, and this movie is no exception. But the movie has enough of a story to keep things moving forward. Direction is largely competent, except for a very poor opening credits sequence. Script is also acceptable. Characters are not especially likable, but in a story like this, that doesn't matter much.There are two scenes that especially stuck in my memory as a child; the first being the frisbee scene. The second was the pizza cutter. Given the lack of real menace in the movie, the direction was surprisingly effective in making things creepy.I only wish that made-for-TV productions kept this sort of sensibility.Entirely worth tracking down for aficionados of early 80s horror.
treyswint-2
I saw this as a kid in '82, without really knowing what it was. It's a well made TV movie about an all-American family that has lost a daughter in a car accident. The surviving daughter does not seem to be coping well.....She starts hearing and seeing strange things. Is she really hearing and seeing her dead sister, or is she having hallucinations? Is she mourning her dead sister, or does she have a guilty secret? The movie is typically TV-paced, meaning that it starts out a little slow, but steadily picks up steam until deaths start happening. Which sister is the killer? I don't want to reveal TOO much, but I will say that the closing scene has successfully creeped me out for 20 years.
