Sufficiently creepy tale, but maybe over stays it’s welcome. We the audience knew exactly what was going to happen long before the movie finally got around to it. Could have easily abbreviated the run time and dropped some things that maybe were important in the novel but had no significance in the film.
Burnt Offerings
Up the ancient stairs, behind the locked door, something lives, something evil, from which no one has ever returned.
Rating
2.5 (1)
Release Date
10/18/1976Runtime
116 minsOverview
A couple and their 12-year-old son move into a giant house for the summer. Things start acting strange almost immediately. It seems that every time someone gets hurt on the grounds, the beat-up house seems to repair itself.
Status
ReleasedOriginal Language
EnglishBudget
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How It Feels
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A summer house gradually reveals itself as something malevolent and alive, feeding on the family trapped within its walls. The horror builds not through jump scares but through creeping wrongness and the slow realization that escape may be impossible.
Mood
Dread-soakedUnsettlingParanoidClaustrophobic
Themes
GriefFamilyCorruptionMortality
Tone
Bleak
Pacing
Slow-burn
Look
FormalistHigh-contrast
Structure
Single location
Heads up
Child endangermentGraphic violence
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