Original title: Let's Scare Jessica to Death
Year: 1971
Country: USA
Region code: 4K UHD: A/B/C; Blu-Ray: B
Contents: 4K UHD + Blu-Ray
EAN: 5060974683123
Image: 1.85:1 (2160p)
HDR: Dolby Vision / HDR10
Audio: English - Original Uncompressed Mono
Subtitles: English SDH
Age rating: TBC
Genre: Horror
Cast: Zohra Lampert, Barton Heyman, Kevin O’Connor
Director: John D. Hancock
Synopsis:
Following her release from a psychiatric hospital, Jessica (Zohra Lampert) moves to a remote farmhouse in the hope of making a fresh start. Upon arriving at the house with her husband (Barton Heyman) and their friend (Kevin O’Connor), they discover a mysterious drifter (Mariclare Costello) squatting there, who they allow to stay.
Yet Jessica soon discovers that their new guest bears an uncanny resemblance to a young woman who drowned in the nearby lake and, as local legend dictates, now stalks the area as a vampire. As frightening visions begin to haunt Jessica, she desperately tries to unpick whether she is suffering a relapse or if the ominous and sinister events plaguing her are in fact real…
Inspired by Henry James’ novella The Turn of the Screw (1898) and Robert Wise’s The Haunting (1963), John D. Hancock’s debut feature was largely misunderstood upon its original release in 1971. More recently, however, the film has enjoyed a critical reappraisal that rightly identifies it as an essential piece of 1970s genre cinema. Featuring a fantastic, tormented performance from Lampert and an eerie synth score, Let’s Scare Jessica to Death is a dreamlike, deeply unsettling horror classic.
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