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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