Review of Revenge!

Revenge! (1971 TV Movie)
8/10
Revenge
24 March 2012
Warning: Spoilers
Revenge is a good little ABC made for TV movie of the week starring Shelley Winters. It begins with a woman (Winters) stealing a businessman's briefcase. The man named Mark Hembric meets up with Amanda Hilton (Winters) at her home in order to retrieve the case, but she has bigger plans for him. She knocks him out and locks him in a cage down in the basement. We soon find out that she's locked him up because she believes he had an affair with her daughter, got her pregnant and then told her to get an abortion. The young girl killed herself shortly after that.

Mark's wife Dianne approaches a psychic to find out where her husband has gone. They end up at the house where Mark is being held. Dianne begins to have psychic feelings of her own and believes that Mark is the house somewhere. All of this leads to a surprisingly satisfying ending in which Dianne and the psychic stop Amanda from killing them all.

There is a very dark and creepy feeling to the movie. Shelly Winters plays the role of the "crazy woman" brilliantly as always. Revenge is impossible to find in stores or for online purchase, I watched it online - probably the only way to see it. But this is a must see for fans of suspenseful seventies Made-For-TV movies.

8/10
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