BURNT OFFERINGS (1976)
Watched it Sunday night at TCM. I had seen it 45 years ago on a double bill with CARRIE. I had not realized it was directed by DAN CURTIS whose crap I love.
This crap I do not love. :tongueout:
watched this last year and found it verrrrryyy slloooooowwwwww zzzzzzzzz
Quote from: Allhallowsday on October 19, 2021, 06:51:58 PM
BURNT OFFERINGS (1976)
Watched it Sunday night at TCM. I had seen it 45 years ago on a double bill with CARRIE. I had not realized it was directed by DAN CURTIS whose crap I love.
This crap I do not love. :tongueout:
The book is actually better.
Karen Black? Oliver Reed? Bette Davis?
I LOVED it!
Quote from: RCMerchant on October 20, 2021, 04:37:46 AM
Karen Black? Oliver Reed? Bette Davis?
I LOVED it!
I love
DAN CURTIS productions, I love
KAREN BLACK, I love
BETTE DAVIS, I enjoy
OLIVER REED. I do not love nor enjoy
BURNT OFFERINGS.
BETTE is wasted!
BLACK's performance is all over the place, but not in a good way, and though
OLIVER chews on scenery, it doesn't help. We hear their voices, chatting at the end, but we don't even get a cool creepy denoument with
BURGESS MEREDITH and
ELAINE STRITCH. Lots of script problems with that deflated dud. :thumbdown:
Here's the whole movie in under 3 minutes:
http://youtu.be/Oo_6Fb5k2lo (http://youtu.be/Oo_6Fb5k2lo)
https://youtu.be/Oo_6Fb5k2lo (https://youtu.be/Oo_6Fb5k2lo)
Seriously over-under acted with a pointless jumble of a script and not scary, maybe gross but not intentionally. ROBERT COBERT provides music (just like he did with Dark Shadows) I kind of like it, but it's rotten.
I dunno. I found it a creepy haunted house movie.
I thought it was underwhelming and a waste of an outstanding cast.
The pool scene freaked me out as a kid
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Quote from: claws on October 20, 2021, 08:06:19 PM
The pool scene freaked me out as a kid
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Yeah? Well that kid goes back into the pool ALONE with the previously murderous poppy catatonic immobile on a lawn chair watching and possessed MOM jumps in the pool to save her son from his 2nd near-drowning in the same pool... the 2nd time, there was a tsunami in the pool... :lookingup:
This movie almost seems like a t.v. movie which isn't to surprising since Dan Curtis made a lot of them. The creepy chauffer with the evil grin was the most memorable part of the movie.