When
music professor and composer John Russell (George C. Scott) and his family are
enjoying a perfect family vacation, a freak automobile accident claims the
lives of his wife and daughter.
Consumed
by grief, he is urged to rent a huge nineteenth century house, and the house
seems to possess all the room John needs to reflect and hopefully write music.
However
it isn’t long before he realizes he is not alone in the house as he shares it
with the spirit of a murdered child who has homed in on John's grief and
despair and uses him to uncover decades of silence and deceit.
With
the help of Claire Norman (Trish Van Devere), who helped John secure the house,
they set out to find the answers and the powerful and devious man who guards
them.
This
is not a violent or “Kensington Gore” type of horror, it scares with great
story telling, eerie sounds and dark corners and it uses pathos with great
effect.
The
film also benefit from accomplished direction and the acting excellence of its
stars and a great supporting cast including Melvyn Douglas, John Colicos and
Barry Morse.
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