Burnt Offerings
by Dan Curtis
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Actor: Burgess Meredith, Eileen Heckart, Karen Black, Lee Montgomery, Oliver ReedDirector: Dan Curtis
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
Cinematographer: Jacques R. Marquette
Producer: Dan Curtis
Writer: Dan Curtis
Editor: Dennis Virkler
Producer: Robert Singer
Writer: Robert Marasco
Writer: William F. Nolan
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 116 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-08-26
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of Burnt Offerings
Movie Review: A genuinely creepy haunted house movie
Summary: 4 Stars
Burnt Offerings is a haunted house movie done right. It's creepy, claustrophobic, and features a great cast including horror veteran Karen Black and Oliver Reed.
The story begins when a picturesque couple Marian and Ben along with their son and elderly aunt decide to rent an old mansion for some enjoyment over the summer months. Despite the mansion being a bit run down, the owners offer them a price they can't refuse under the conditions that they maintain the property and tend to the old woman that resides upstairs. The family tries to make themselves comfortable in their new home, but something is a little odd about the house and the effect it has on them. Before long the couple begins experiencing bouts of strange and unexplained behavior. Marian begins spending almost all of her time secluded in the upstairs bedroom with the old woman that nobody has ever seen, and Ben keeps having vivid hallucinations of a creepy hearse driver around the property. Not to mention the house itself in which dead plants mysteriously return to life, a swimming pool that churns itself into turbulent waves, and doors that lock themselves. It soon becomes apparent that phenomenon taking place can be attributed to none other than the spirits of the home's previous inhabitants.
Burnt Offerings is all about the atmosphere. For some it surely comes off as a slow moving, and plotless movie in which there is no real point to be made. However it sports a genuine sense of dread and uneasiness that is rarely achieved. It is comprised of numerous, and strange little happenings that are seemingly unrelated, but you can sense that something dark and ominous is steadily building in the background with a thickening tension throughout. In this respect as well as others, Burnt Offerings is almost remniscient of the Shining, although it doesn't offer as much memorable imagery or music.
Burnt Offerings is a truly scary movie, but to get the full effect you need to watch it without any distractions and let yourself become absorbed into it. It's a great example of how a movie can be very scary with barely any gore at all, and how to build suspense up to a great ending. Highly recommended.
Summary of Burnt Offerings
Step inside a vacation house of horror in this terrifying thriller that "does for summer homes whatJaws did for a dip in the surf" (The New York Times)! Starring Karen Black, Oliver Reed, Burgess Meredith and Bette Davis, this riveting haunted-house chiller delivers "hidden terrors [that] mount creepily as the film builds to a climax of pulverizing fright" (Rex Reed)! Marian (Black) and Ben (Reed) find it hard to believe that for only $900 they've rented a sprawling old country mansion for the entire summer. But as they settle into their isolated estate with their son and Ben's aunt (Davis), they find themselves surrounded by a living presencean evil, hypnotic, occult forcethat feeds on torture, fear and murder.Based on the Robert Marasco novel of the same name, Dan Curtis's eerie movie puts a spin on celluloid haunted-house sagas. The well-adjusted Rolf family (father Oliver Reed, mother Karen Black, aunt Bette Davis, and young son Lee H.?Montgomery) rent a huge old summer house only to find that its spirit is in control of the estate. The requisite sinister proceedings appear--including a possessed pool and the vision of a sinister hearse driver following Reed--that disrupt the family's unity. Black also falls under the spell of an elderly woman whom she is required to take care of, but no one ever sees. While it may not be as overtly shocking as other ghost tales, Burnt Offerings has a creepiness that gets under your skin thanks to good performances and the dreamy, soft-focus photography. --Bryan Reesman
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