Quinn Martin's only feature film didn't even make it into the entry on erstwhile auteur Paul Wendkos in the revised edition of Sarris. The script namedrops Mozart and Liszt but 'Bluebeard's Castle' is a far more apt comparison.
Obviously made to cash in on 'Rosemary's Baby' it depicts another pair of young newlyweds who befriend a pair of satanists, husband Curt Jurgens lamenting that "People should be born at seventy and live their life backwards. The present arrangement just doesn't make sense!"
It's pretty stylish in a TV movie sort of way (although it goes on far too long and the slow motion, soft focus and fish eye lens rather dates it) and the ending's neat; but the moment I personally found most shocking was Jaqueline Bisset defacing a newspaper in a reference library.
Obviously made to cash in on 'Rosemary's Baby' it depicts another pair of young newlyweds who befriend a pair of satanists, husband Curt Jurgens lamenting that "People should be born at seventy and live their life backwards. The present arrangement just doesn't make sense!"
It's pretty stylish in a TV movie sort of way (although it goes on far too long and the slow motion, soft focus and fish eye lens rather dates it) and the ending's neat; but the moment I personally found most shocking was Jaqueline Bisset defacing a newspaper in a reference library.