
A country family of five takes in cousin Julia, whose parents recently perished in a car crash. Julia extends her influence over the family and those around them, fooling all except for Rachel, the teenaged girl who knows her cousin is up to no good.... (Full plot summary below)
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A country family of five takes in cousin Julia, whose parents recently perished in a car crash. Julia extends her influence over the family and those around them, fooling all except for Rachel, the teenaged girl who knows her cousin is up to no good.
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| Apollo GuideKurt DahlkeThere is some small enjoyment, besides that found in wasting a few minutes with television history, in the silly, pulpy quality of the proceedings. |
| User ReviewBob RA Wes Craven adaptation of a Lois Duncan novel starring Linda Blair that deals with the hot-button issue of evil supernatural step siblings. Do I really need to say anything more? One of my favorite '70s TV movies and that's saying something. |
| User Review?۩ IñVéRt Ði used to love this movie when i was 10-12 years old |
| User ReviewFrankie GDirected by Wes Craven, this film features Linda Blair as the protagonist (with giant hair), Rachel (more a reason to view this film). Infidelity, sorcery and cat fights abound, in this 1978, made-for-TV flick! |
| User ReviewMorten ØThis is an overlooked Craven movie. It's pretty damn good actually. It's one of those horror movies that doesn't show any real violence, but instead focuses on the psychical aspects. And it treats these psychical with a lot of tension and akward scenes. Lee Purcell (playing a strange cusine) practically steals Linda Blair's identity. Linda Blair's mission is to show her closest that Lee Purcell is an evil witch, but with everyone (including her own family) finding Purcell to be a sweetheard this gets diffelcult. The movie is packed with erotic undetones with some of them being more obscure than others. This movie is watchable! |
| User Reviewscott gCraptastic and worth viewing (a) for Linda Blair's hideous perm and (b) with the right group of people. Thank you, right group of people! |
| User ReviewPaul Dnot bad for a tv movie.linda blair looks gorgeous as always. ) |
| User ReviewNarae POne of the better late '70s horror TV movies. Based on the book "Summer of Fear" by Lois Duncan (the author of "I Know What You Did Last Summer" and "Stranger With My Face" among other essential reads for budding horror fans), and the first "mainstream" project for Wes Craven, who previously directed "The Last House on the Left" and "The Hills Have Eyes." But the most important part of the equation is Linda Blair. By 1978, Linda had gotten mixed up in a drug deal and that, combined with the spectacular failure of "Exorcist II: The Heretic" the year prior, meant that she was already headed into the "hasbeen" files. The next year would bring the horrifying non-horror film "Roller Boogie" and a long string of dreadful B-movies for a long time. So in this stop gap between two of the worst movies ever made, Blair gives a fine performance in a somewhat-forgotten bit of scariness that still holds up pretty well. (I have no idea what's up with the DVD cover though.) |
| User ReviewJay WWell it's not his greatest work, but i did watch it, and i also discovered i own the book, which one will bore me less? |
| User ReviewKjetil HTypical made for tv movie. Not a lot happens making for a dull 90 minutes. Based on the novel by Lois Duncan. |