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Overview

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5.3/10   678 votes
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Director:
Richard Marquand
Writers:
Jimmy Sangster (screenplay)
Patrick Tilley (writer)
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Release Date:
14 September 1979 (USA) more
Genre:
Horror | Mystery more
Tagline:
It is a birthright of living death... more
Plot:
A millionaire and a million-dollar prostitute, a star-maker and a nation-killer, a woman whose lusts are as cold as graveyard snow... more | add synopsis
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User Comments:
Glum horror hodgepodge... more

Cast

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Katharine Ross ... Margaret Walsh

Sam Elliott ... Pete Danner

Roger Daltrey ... Clive Jackson
John Standing ... Jason Mountolive
Ian Hogg ... Harry
Margaret Tyzack ... Nurse Adams
Charles Gray ... Karl Liebnecht
Lee Montague ... Jacques Grandier
Hildegarde Neil ... Barbara Kirstenburg (as Hildegard Neil)
Marianne Broome ... Maria Gabrieli
William Abney ... Butler
Patsy Smart ... Cook
Mathias Kilroy ... Stable Lad
Reg Harding ... Gardener
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Legacy of Maggie Walsh
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Runtime:
102 min
Country:
UK | USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby
Certification:
UK:18 (video rating) | UK:X (original rating) | Iceland:16 | Finland:K-16 (cut) (1980) | Australia:R | Norway:16 | USA:R

Fun Stuff

Goofs:
Continuity: In an establishing shot, one of the rear tires of Mountolive's limo clips one of the spherical concrete bollards, which starts rapidly rolling along the drive revealing that it is fake. more
Quotes:
Margaret Walsh: [as they approach Ravenhurst, the Mountolive family's dazzling residence] ... So what do you suppose this Mr. Mountolive does for a living?
Pete Danner: [with a shrug] Whatever it is, he's doing it right.
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Movie Connections:
Featured in Terror in the Aisles (1984) more
Soundtrack:
ANOTHER SIDE OF ME more

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1 out of 1 people found the following comment useful:-
Glum horror hodgepodge..., 9 February 2008
4/10
Author: moonspinner55 from redlands, ca

Sam Elliott and Katharine Ross play an American couple traveling through England where they are taken in by a mysterious millionaire who apparently heads up a devil's coven. The evil lurking at the mansion won't allow anyone to leave--and so we're all held prisoner together, watching the guests meet their 'imaginative' grisly fates. Fashionable nastiness, "Ten Little Indians" style, with director Richard Marquand showing no sympathy for his victims--nor giving viewers any genuine thrills to enjoy along the way. Marquand gets ridiculously showy with his camera tricks--even staging one shot through the nozzle in Elliott's shower stall! Lethargy settles in early, the talented leads are wasted, and the shocks are awfully slow in coming. *1/2 from ****

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