And you thought Steven Spielberg did cutesy movies with adorable characters just waiting to be made into toys, action adventure with the world's most athletic archeologists, aliens resembling a pile of doodoo with eyes ... well you thought WRONG! Ole Steve-o also did horror movies. Well at least this one horror movie, which scared the living crap out of me when I was a young critter back in 1976. Granted it was back in the 70s, and that I was a young critter and all ... but it did the near impossible: it gave me nightmares. What caught me in the jewels was the idea of pure evil in the form of the devil. It was creepy as hell, and it made me remember about the creepiest thing I have ever seen until today: a jar of jam screaming. Yep, you read that right. This movie has a jar of jam possessed by the devil until it could scream out "mama ... mama .... mama ..." Hows that for horror?
The Skinny: A farmhouse is haunted by the devil with poltergeist activities causing havoc to a small, innocent family. Initial distrust of the chain of events soon leads to full fledged acceptance of the nature of the devil. Horror action ensues.
The Helmer: Steven Spielberg - he did helluva lot of films. Just click on his name and movie oracle imdb.com will reveal all ...
The Verdict: When everyone thought The Exorcist (1973) was hot shit back in the day, this little TV movie was scarier, at least to me. Why? Because you don't see the face of evil, instead you feel its presense throughout the whole thing. But honestly, horror movies of the 70s far exceeds any generation of horror movies to date. What we have now are just feasts for gore hounds and nothing more. It can make you sick to your stomach, yes, but it doesn't crawl under your skin to chill your spine. 70s horror movies did that, and they did it with low budget, excellent score and weird camera angles to disturbing results.
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