Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971)
Genre: Horror / Mystery
Duration: 89 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: John D. Hancock
Stars: Zohra Lampert, Barton Heyman and Kevin O'Connor
IMDb score:
6,4 (10.679)
Releasedate: 6 August 1971
Let's Scare Jessica to Death plot
"Nightmare or sanity... which is which?"
Jessica is released from a mental hospital. Wanting to make a fresh start, she moves to a New England ranch with her husband Duncan and boyfriend Woody. But soon upon arrival, Jessica has strange visions and there appears to be a vampire living in the farm who controls the entire city. Or is Jessica just not mentally stable enough yet?
Reviews & comments
scorsese
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- 13671 messages
- 11438 votes
A mediocre film in which a woman tries to recover with her husband and a friend after her discharge from a psychiatric hospital. This subtle horror film is a bit on the dull side (the final part picks up pace a bit). At times it is somewhat atmospheric, and the main character's thoughts conveyed through the voice-over work particularly well.
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wibro
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- 11590 messages
- 4098 votes
Decent, but it didn't look like it at first. Up until 10 minutes before the end, I already had a failing grade (2.0*) ready for this until then uninteresting little horror thriller, but fortunately the last 10 minutes made up for a lot. At least then it became somewhat of a horror film. Visually, however, I found this to be quite a letdown. Not a shadow of the excellent and very atmospheric horror short film "Symptoms," with which this film is sometimes compared. Completely unjustly, I think.
Rating: barely 3 stars.
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Drulko Vlaschjan
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- 519 messages
- 451 votes
Cool movie, though, and also a bit elusive. Some of the dialogue felt unnatural in a way I couldn't quite pinpoint. Was it meant to be funny, mysterious, or just terribly bad? I don't know, but it certainly intrigued me.
You never really know what is real and what is just playing out in Jessica's head anyway. At first you think that only she sees those ghosts, but then others see them too – or is that her fantasy as well? Not necessarily original, of course, but well done. You see such a totally unreliable narrator quite often in literature, but in film it is actually trickier, and here it worked excellently.
The title and the trailer promised something totally different from what you get, so I understand the disappointment of some here. This isn't exactly a crowd-pleaser, but for me, it was an unexpected hit.
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