11-01-2019, 06:41 PM
Burnt Offerings (1976)
As I watched a father, mother and son drive toward the remote haunted building that they'll be the caretakers for (as it slowly drives them insane) I was thinking "This seems a lot like 'The Shining'?", then I realised this was released 4-years before Stanley Kubrick's film and 1 year before the book. You've even got a father with a typewriter and near identical plot elements around old photos. Bette Davis, Oliver Reed and Karen Black do a great job showing the decent from loving, happy family to paranoid and unhinged. The scene where Reed is messing about with his son in the swimming pool and their play twists almost imperceptibly into violence is really disturbing. A creepy 70s Horror film that is well worth checking out.
As I watched a father, mother and son drive toward the remote haunted building that they'll be the caretakers for (as it slowly drives them insane) I was thinking "This seems a lot like 'The Shining'?", then I realised this was released 4-years before Stanley Kubrick's film and 1 year before the book. You've even got a father with a typewriter and near identical plot elements around old photos. Bette Davis, Oliver Reed and Karen Black do a great job showing the decent from loving, happy family to paranoid and unhinged. The scene where Reed is messing about with his son in the swimming pool and their play twists almost imperceptibly into violence is really disturbing. A creepy 70s Horror film that is well worth checking out.
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