Redwarmin This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Platypuschow Richard Crenna leads in this lackluster 70's horror effort. It tells the story of a couple who buy a mansion much in need of restoration, they call in some friends to assist but find themselves trapped inside by a supernatural entity.Alas very little happens, the story doesn't make a tremendous amount of sense and the whole thing is somewhat of a bore.The IMDB rating for this is quite high so expected more, sadly it misfired on all cylinders and left me scratching my head.No idea how this got its 18 rating either, it's stupidly tame stuff.The Good: Decent settingThe Bad:Rather blandInstantly forgettableOdd endingThings I Learnt From This Movie:Satan is an old fat bearded guy with a cross allergy

Aaron1375 This film is brought to us by Roger Corman, and so it is a film that tries to capitalize on the success of a more known film, in this case Amityville. Like so many other Corman pictures, this film has an edge to it that makes it less boring than many other haunted house tales of this era. During the 70's, there were tons of haunted house movies that were either television films or were films that came to a theater. A lot of them were a big snooze. This one had something going for it, and had they did a bit more with the deaths and tacked on a better ending, I would consider this one a pretty good one. However, the deaths were all essentially the same with a couple of exceptions and the ending just came across as a bit wrong...in that it just did not feel like it belonged in the same movie I had been watching up to that point.The story has a couple purchasing a really big house that they are wanting to convert into a drug rehab center. However, there is something in the basement and soon the couple as well as some patients and a friend are locked within the house struggling to survive against an unseen force that seems determined to kill them all. They try to find a way out of the house, and the professor who bought the house will not acknowledge that the strange occurrences are supernatural in nature and is bound and determined to try to think things through logically, until enough things begin to happen that simply have no explanation.The movie has Richard Crenna in the lead role and he does okay. The problem is that it becomes a bit ridiculous at a certain point in the film that he is trying to figure out a logical explanation for what is going on. I watched a film called Vengeance of the Zombies where the police when presented with very little evidence that zombies were involved nearly instantly believed that it was zombies. Here it is the opposite. People are flying through the air, the doors and such in the house have locked everyone in and the professor suggests that it is a weather anomaly and someone else suggests static electricity! Speaking of electricity, there are way too many deaths involving electricity in this one. If only they were creative with the kills I would have given this one a higher score. That along with changing that out of left field ending.So the film had some moments to it and it was not boring, but it also failed in a lot of areas. The best death came near the end when this one guy got out of the house as I knew he was going to die, but it surprised me how he was killed. I have seen numerous other haunted house films over the years, though, and this one is not the worst of the bunch. With a bit of work, it might have been more of a cult hit, but as it is, it is probably just a forgettable film that was just a few things away from being memorable.

Scarecrow-88 Intensely skeptical former psyche professor Crenna, his doctor wife Joanna Pettet, former student(..now a psyche professor in his own right)Andrew Prine, and other loyal associates prepare to renovate a really old and enormous, cob-webbed and decrepit, mansion, not knowing that it houses a powerful evil force bent on their destruction, killing them one by one in various ways. Seeing characters levitated in the air, with a hand cut into by a band-saw, a woman raped by an invisible predator, an enraged dog attacking it's master, victims engulfed in flames, victims electrocuted, among other supernatural shenanigans are on display for your viewing pleasure. The group wish to escape, but we see the force shutting the windows and doors, not allowing them to. We also hear the evil force snickering as it terrorizes victims. And, even when it appears one is able to finally be free from their hellish prison, he falls in quicksand and is sucked into the muddy earth. Soon it's discovered that a former resident a century ago, his spirit also remains, beckoning for Joanna to defend themselves using religious devices, because their foe is actually ole Scratch! In the bowels of the mansion is a pit with a steel door which held Satan at bay and it was Crenna, in his curiosity, who opened it not knowing the repercussions of his actions. A crucifix is the key to closing the door and halting Beelzebub's reign of terror..that is according to Vargas, the former centuries-old resident whose ghost guides Crenna and Joanna along the way. The oft-used theme of Good vs Evil is applied to The Evil with Victor Buono, in about five minutes, producing some wonderful time on screen as the Devil, dressed in white(..his place of rest a large room within the pit is white as well)clashing with what one normally expects him to look like. It's a testament to the acting profession to behold such a cast with an ability to hold a straight face during this silly nonsense."I sealed the pit and you released the EVIL!!"

Woodyanders Compassionate psychologist C.J. Arnold (a fine, bearded Richard Crenna, who starred in the hilariously horrible made-for-TV hoot "Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell" around the same time) and his supportive wife Caroline (gorgeous brunette Joanna Pettet) purchase a huge, creepy, rundown old mansion with the intention of transforming it into a drug rehabilitation center. A kindly apparition warns Caroline to leave the house, but the stubbornly rationale C.J. balks at the idea that the eerie abode might be spooked and invites a team of college students (genial unsung 70's action movie tough guy Robert Viharo and fetching femme faves Cassie Yates and Mary Louise Weller among 'em) led by C.J.'s good buddy Professor Raymond Guy (a nicely subdued performance by the usually more manic Andrew Prine) to help him clean the dingy place up. Things turn sour and get mighty harrowing when C.J. accidentally releases an ancient and extremely malevolent phantasmagoric force that's been confined in the basement for a long time. Said force proceeds to gruesomely decimate most of the cast (grisly electrocutions, a possessed German Shepard causes a chick to take a fatal spill down a flight of stairs, Prine drowns in quicksand, and so on) before C.J. and Caroline discover that none other than Beezlebub his horned, devilish self (a sumptuously ripe, show-stopping slice of grand thespic ham by Victor Buono) is behind the whole diabolical shebang.While the plot might not sound too promising (in fact, it's pretty threadbare), "The Evil" still qualifies as a superior supernatural scarefest because the invigorating deftness and straightforwardness of the execution wholly compensate for the story's dearth of originality. The direction by the always efficient and underrated 70's exploitation feature ace Guy ("The Student Body") Trikonis bristles with remarkable élan, style and restraint. Furthermore, Trikonis adeptly covers all the mandatory bases to make this picture pass muster as a solid little horrorshow: a fair amount of alarming, pulse-quickening tension is ably created and sustained throughout, uniformly on the money acting, a fleshing-crawling score by Johnny Harris, a galloping pace which never lets up for a minute, properly ugly and unpleasant death scenes, a grim gloom-doom mood, shadowy cinematography by Mario DiLeo, and a cogently stated central thesis which firmly argues that not only must supernatural events and entities be accepted and dealt with on their own logic-defying otherworldly terms, but also that the sole way to effectively thwart evil is through direct and aggressive means. To sum up, this honey certainly rates as a a real killer diller haunted house thriller.