Actuakers One of my all time favorites.

Mjeteconer Just perfect...

Mathilde the Guild Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

zonkerjohn While I am typically a tough critic of movies, I just found this one riveting from the start. I particularly liked the way the revelations slowly unfolded (Marcia recognizing the tapping of the glass, his mother from a previous life recognizing him, etc.) I liked the way the producer did the flashbacks. The music was great. I did not like the ending, but rationalized it as 'hey somebody has to write bad endings, because if they were all good, then we would not appreciate them' I actually put this movie right up there with the omen and others (on my top list, anyway). surprised more of these type have not been written. it seems the possibilities are endless as to how creative one can be.

climbingivy I have to say,this movie is Excellent,Excellent,Excellent!I saw the movie at the theatre back when it originally showed and I was so scared.Margot Kidder was downright evil and quite scary.Jennifer O'Neill was absolutely lovely as the girlfriend/daughter.Jennifer O'Neill was the beautiful actress in the lead part in the 1972 movie "Summer Of 42".Jennifer O' Neill was also an early super model cover girl with incredible looks that put the so called super models of the last 30 years to shame.Michael Sarrazin played his part as Peter Proud with intensity and also an aloofness that was just the right combination.I feel like it was not necessary for the foul language and the nude scenes in the movie,but the middle 1970s is when theatre productions started that bad trend.Otherwise the movie was well done.The location scenery and cinema photography was lovely to look at.If you want to see a real scary unusual horror movie check this one out.I have this movie on DVD.

mnpollio A prior commentator in the reviews section here complemented the film as being like a bad dream that stays with you and that is a perfectly apt description for the atmosphere of this strange, moody mystery/thriller revolving around the supernatural belief of reincarnation. Michael Sarrazin is an academic plagued by vivid, surreal nightmares depicting the increasingly volatile relationship between a brutal wife-beater and his increasingly fearful spouse, which culminates in his murder while out on a nocturnal skinnydip. As Sarrazin starts to investigate the roots of these bizarre dreams, he comes to realize that the players in his dream have actual real life counterparts and comes to believe that he is the reincarnation of the doomed husband. As he discovers each new piece to the puzzle, certain parts of the dream vanish giving him a sense of peace. Unfortunately, his investigations bring him into contact with the man's (his own?) daughter, played by Jennifer O'Neill, with whom he falls into a romance, as well as the murderess herself (Margot Kidder), who begins to believe that there is something off about her daughter's new boyfriend. Director J. Lee Thompson ably conveys a surreal quality to the visions/dreams and injects the film with a sense of impending catastrophe that it fails to shake even after its lead starts regaining some peace of mind. However, the reincarnation aspect brings up questions that the film fails to address or even touch on. Most glaringly, why does Sarrazin's laid-back rather docile Peter Proud share so few personality traits with his violence-prone predecessor? Peter Proud is not depicted as either a woman-beater or especially violent about much of anything, so at what point did the "soul" which inhabits his body learn its lesson? Why does Sarrazin not feel uncomfortable with the ramifications of courting and having sex with a woman who is his predecessor's daughter? Granted, they are not blood related, but there seems something a bit incestuous about the whole romance. The acting contributes to the oddity of the film. Sarrazin's overly restrained acting always seems to keep Peter Proud as an aloof character, even during his more emotional moments. It is almost as though neither he nor the film want us to get too attached to Proud and his plight lest we be upset about what the film has in store for him. O'Neill is lovely, but again the romance between she and Sarrazin is surprisingly muted. By contrast, Margot Kidder is fairly terrific as the beleaguered battered wife who thinks she has gotten away with murder only to be confronted years later by the soul of her restless husband. Her increasing paranoia and desperation in the final scenes are almost palpable. Tony Stephano also pulls off a difficult passage as the "dream" man - a guy charming enough to make us believe that Kidder would fall for him, but with a hair-trigger temper that is truly frightening. An underrated film to watch out for, especially for those interested in the unusual.

The_Void Reincarnation is undoubtedly an interesting topic and I'm fairly sure that this is the only film that I've seen which handles the topic in a 'mystery thriller' kind of way, but the fact that the topic is interesting really only serves in making this film more disappointing as The Reincarnation of Peter Proud fails to capitalise on it's central idea. Instead of creating something interesting out of the story, director J. Lee Thompson (who has a handful of interesting and important films to his name) seemed to prefer to make it another formulaic 'lost memory' style thriller and the result is a film too unlike too many others to really enthral the viewer. The film focuses on Peter Proud; a college professor who suffers from lucid nightmares. Some investigations go on and Peter soon discovers that he has been reincarnated and so goes to Massachusetts to meet his wife and daughter from his previous life. It's not long before he's integrated into his old family and in a relationship with his previous daughter, but his former wife holds a dark secret.It almost seems like the scriptwriters didn't know how to handle this idea properly as the central idea of the lead character being reincarnated is basically just sprung on the audience and it's difficult to work out how the lead characters actually realised it. The film is not helped by some entirely wooden performances. Lead actor Michael Sarrazin in particular seems very uninterested in the material (cant really blame him) and only Margot Kidder stands out from the support cast, although she has given better performances than this one. The only real thing of interest in the film is the implications of a man who has been reincarnated having a relationship with the grown-up girl that he fathered in his previous life; but in the context of the film it almost seems mundane and the idea is not capitalised upon. Even so, I cant really say that the film is a complete dead loss; despite not capitalising on most ideas, it doesn't get too boring and we do get something of a surprise ending; but I have to say overall that The Reincarnation of Peter Proud is not as good as it's title.