Burnt Offerings (1976)

somebodeez · **Posted:** Fri Dec 12, 2003 5:02 pm **Post subject:**

Extra special you're welcome

Hey that movie you're thinking of sounds interesting. Can you remember who was in it? If the title comes to mind or if you can remember who was in it, let me know.

karstmobile · **Posted:** Sat Dec 13, 2003 9:35 am **Post subject:**

Well, unfortunately, as hard as I search, nothing really stands out...

Here are some possibilities, but they may acutally be far from what I'm looking for:

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0233673/
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0073042/
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0081515/
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0082278/

will keep looking...

DxaKrator · **Posted:** Sat Dec 13, 2003 12:55 pm **Post subject:**

Would it be GhostHouse (1987)?Probably not but I remember some scene involving a rocking chair I beleive....movies like this are hard to remember since they all follow basically the same plotlines.

Carnal · **Posted:** Wed Feb 27, 2008 5:58 pm **Post subject:**

i have to agree - this one creeped me out at the final scene where oliver reed gets tossed out the window by a demonically possessed karen black (who for some reason i have never understood all the "karen black is hot" stuff - to me she was just insanely weird horror bait i dont know , it couldve been the crossed eyes and the 70s-type hardbody: i guess guys were easily enticed by a tight polyester skirt in those days hehehe ) in the vein of those haunted ever so complicated conspiratal ghost films we find so ghastly.

a good watch for the patient ghost story buff - which leads me to think of the Talisman - which should also get a decent hollywood screening.

Xoal · **Posted:** Thu Feb 28, 2008 12:21 am **Post subject:**

Looks pretty awesome

Andrei · Last edited by Andrei on Mon Oct 24, 2011 8:22 pm, edited 2 times in total.

Burnt Offerings (1976)
Up the ancient stairs, behind the locked door, something lives, something evil, from which no one has ever returned.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074258/

Spoiler:

The Rolf family takes a vacation from the city (the specific city is not identified in the film) at a large Victorian mansion in the California countryside. The family consists of Marian (Karen Black) and her husband Ben (Oliver Reed), their young son David (Lee Montgomery), and their elderly aunt Elizabeth (Bette Davis). The owners of the house are the Allardyce siblings, brother Arnold and sister Roz, played by actors Burgess Meredith and Eileen Heckart, respectively. The Allardyces appear at the beginning of the film when they inform their new tenants of a particularly odd requirement for their rental: the Allardyces elderly mother continues to live in her upstairs room and the Rolfs are required to provide her with food during their stay. The siblings explain that the old woman is obsessed with privacy and will probably not interact with them, so the food is to be left outside her door.

As it turns out, this task falls to the mother who quickly succumbs to the allure of the ornate Victorian house and its period decor. Various "accidents" occur during the summer, including the suspicious death of the renters' Aunt Elizabeth. As the film progresses, Ben becomes increasingly depressed and anxious while Marian becomes increasingly obsessed with the house, the old woman in the attic, and all of the Victorian artifacts. It gradually becomes clear that Marian is somehow being possessed or controlled by the house and that a malevolent force is slowly consuming the whole family.

At the climax of the movie, Ben readies his family to leave the house. Before leaving, Ben confronts the elderly Mrs. Allardyce whom he has not seen face to face. Horrified, he finds that his wife has somehow become the old woman in the attic, or perhaps always has been. Ben is thrown from attic window, landing on the windshield of his car. In shock, David runs toward the house and is killed when one of the chimneys falls on him.

The film ends with the house fully rejuvenated and glistening like new. As the camera pans over the interior of the renewed house, the voices of the Allardyce siblings are heard marveling at the house's beauty and rejoicing over the return of their mother. The house is shown to be filled with pictures of various people, many from years past, some more recent - including those of Ben, David and Aunt Elizabeth.

The perfect summer rental for the last vacation you'll ever take.
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RedVeil

The quoted text is a spoiler, beware my fellow donkey users!!
The story reminds me of "The Shining". SInce I love that one, I will give this one a go too!

Thanks Andrei. :beerchug:

I would remove the ending from the quoted text though. :mrgreen:

Andrei

I replaced the quote tags with the spoiler ones.

RedVeil

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