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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 9780792857396
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792857399
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 26, 2003
Running Time: 114 minutes
Sales Rank: 12800
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: October 18, 1976
Editorial Review:
Description:
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.
Amazon.com:
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
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - I guess the grandma preferred something else for lunch!
Pre-dating both "The Amityville Horror" and "The Shining", "Burnt Offerings" is an incredibly well-written haunted-house horror story, starring the talents of Oliver Reed, who would get fame from his star role in David Cronenberg's "The Brood" three years after this movie. The other star is Karen Black, in ironically one of the few horror roles I think she's done.
Now, while "Burnt Offerings" lasts over a good hour and forty minutes, it's a gripping, brilliant and entertaining movie for several ... Read More
Rating: - A masterpiece
I had read the book BURNT OFFERINGS by Robert Marasco and loved it. I was thrilled to see it made into a movie. This film is very underrated. It is expertly crafted classic horror. These days most horror films are filled with violence and gore galore. Not this film. The evil in this film is the house and is a character of the movie in itself.
We have a very happy family - mother, father, son with grandmother in tow - who rent a summer house. It's a run down huge mansion style house ... Read More
Rating: - What a Way to Renovate a House!
[This review is part of my 30 Days of Halloween series. cultural past.]
BURNT OFFERINGS unites three icons of 1960's to 1980's thriller gendre: Karen Black, Bette Davis & Burgess Meredith. Karen Black & Burgess Merdith formed a bizzare daughter-father team in THE DAY OF THE LOCUST(that I previously reviewed.) The film also features veteran actors Oliver Reed & Eileen Heckart.)
It has been suggested by other reviewers that the plot is a rip-off of THE SHINING, but I ... Read More
Rating: - Eternally Evil, This House Demands A Blood Sacrifice
"Burnt Offerings" is one of the greatest haunted house horror movies ever made. It rivals that of "The Amityville Horror." Wonderful direction is given by Dan Curtis who is a master of modern gothic horror. He directed numerous television horror hits such as "Trilogy of Terror" and "The Night Stalker." The later spawned a television series of the same title and greatly influenced "The X-Files." He is most famous for his gothic daytime soap opera, "Dark Shadows," of which I was a devoted fan.
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Rating: - "Hello, Benji...!"
"Burnt Offerings" follows on the tail of some vastly superior "evil" films of the 1970's: "The Omen", "The Exorcist", and "Rosemary's Baby", but it should be kept in mind that 1976 was the Satanic renaissance in film. Holding this to the standard of the aforementioned films is both unfair and sets you up for a disappointment.
If you take it out of context and give it a chance, though, Curtis' loose adaptation of Marasco's chilling (and neglected) horror novel is bound to give you a good scare. ... Read More
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