
Whilst out on a rowboat with his wife Louise, John Haloran has a heart attack and dies. She casts his body overboard and hides his death telling the family he left on an urgent business trip. Louise's main concern is that she can only hope to inherit part of his family fortune if he's still alive. The Halorans are a strange family. They are still grieving over the death of the youngest daughter, Kathleen, who drowned in a pond when she was a young child. The family hold an an... (Full plot summary below)
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Whilst out on a rowboat with his wife Louise, John Haloran has a heart attack and dies. She casts his body overboard and hides his death telling the family he left on an urgent business trip. Louise's main concern is that she can only hope to inherit part of his family fortune if he's still alive. The Halorans are a strange family. They are still grieving over the death of the youngest daughter, Kathleen, who drowned in a pond when she was a young child. The family hold an annual ceremony of remembrance, on the anniversary of her death. But this year someone is wielding an ax...intent on murder.
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| ColeSmithey.comCole SmitheyCoppola's promise as a director is on display in this interesting piece of gothic horror. |
| Movie-Vault.comMichael W. Phillips, Jr.A peerless horror film of the low-budget variety, a sort of how-to guide for future filmmakers on working with a limited budget. |
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonLike [Coppola's] later Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), it's an intriguing example of style over substance. |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyThere was no way to tell from the debut of Coppola, then 24, a low-budget horror flick produced by Roger Corman, that in a decade he would become the most influential director. |
| Creative LoafingMatt BrunsonThis early effort remains an interesting part of Coppola's filmography -- certainly more than such latter-day stinkbombs as Jack and Youth Without Youth. |
| Village VoiceBilge EbiriDespite the rough edges, you feel you're in the hands of someone who enjoys telling a story, and knows how to do it - even when the story's a disposable one such as this. |
| CinePassionFernando F. CroceAn upstart's precocious proposal on artistry, independence, and the business of family, or vice-versa |
| The Retro SetNathanael HoodWith Dementia 13, Coppola glutted himself on exploitation. |
| Chicago ReaderDave KehrIt's standard horror fare -- with one interesting effect that turned up again, 12 years later, in The Conversation. |
| User ReviewMike Samazing early coppola film. you have to be a fan of b horror movies to watch this, otherwise you probably won't love it....you can see how some of the shots in this movie inspired later films, especially the underwater and toy scenes |