No one was going to win any Emmys for this one though.oh sorry Susan. I'll admit to nodding off a couple of times to rewind it. This also features Soleil Moon Frye, aka Punk Brewster, as the daughter.Īnyway, the movie is kinda all over the place and fairly forgettable. Soon Matt's (Urich) wife and son become posessed and he has to put on a space suit to get them from Hell. Which makes it like most Country Clubs I have dealt with. Here they join a new Country Club but discover it is actually a doorway to Hell. It starred Robert Urich (one of those actors you never heard a bad word about) and Joanna Cassidy as a couple moving into a new town. That's right! It's All My Children's Erica Kane, aka Susan Lucci playing Jessica Jones (!!) in Wes Craven's next made for TV film, Invitation to Hell. It's 1984 and I need an attractive TV actress to paly a hell-spawn. Not the movie I was looking for. Some of the elements are right, but not enough of them. Now there is a scene at the end with cultists, but no girl with psychic powers to speak of. Plus I am also sure this was not a made-for-TV movie. I am not sure about a lot of things when it comes to this vague memory but I think I would have remembered that. I had high hopes for this one but a couple of things let me know right away that this was not it. Girls playing with an Ouija board and discover that a strange fate meets Alison on her 19th birthday. The fact that it premiered on Halloween night 1978 on NBC I was sure this was the movie. Verdict: Not the movie I was looking for. Near the end of the movie Julia's car explodes before it is even half-way down the mountain. Actually, this is something my dad and I always watched for when we would watch these terrible movies together. I had forgotten how much cars exploded all the time in the 70s. Still we get a decent enough Wes Craven film here. This one in truth is not much better, but I have soft spot in my heart for Blair. This was Linda Blair's next movie after the critically panned Exorcist II. How do we know Julia is a witch? Her penchant for black flimsy dresses and her white and red eyes. A housekeeper, inhabiting the body of a suspected dead cousin (Lee Purcell) is taken in by Rachel's (Blair) family and strange things begin to happen. Our next choice is a Linda Blair starring TV movie Stranger in Our House, based on the book Summer of Fear. Stranger in Our House / Summer of Fear (1978) The story is good and the acting fine but somehow it just doesn't come together right. I guess it was supposed to be a pilot movie for a new series. The movie comes to us from Gene "Star Trek" Roddenberry. We do get a scene of cultists and a woman being sacrificed. Turns out the family are cultists and they are playing to sacrifice the daughter, whom the succubus had taken the form of, to Asmodeus. This leads to an investigations of the Cyon family in England where we get to see a young John Hurt. He gets attack by a succubus, whom Culp manages to send back to hell. Culp plays a criminologist who now studies the occult. So I spent the day searching and here are the fruits of my labors.įirst up is Robert Culp, John Hurt, and Majel Barrett in Spectre a great little tale of Asmodeus and Lilith in modern times. That is the clearest thing I remember.įor the life of me, I can't figure out what the movie was. All I can remember was there a long progression of cultists going up a circular staircase up in a tower and each one put a drop of blood on the girl's forehead. Either she about to be sacrificed OR this is supposed to give her powers. There is a scene near the end of the movie of a girl (not sure if it is the same one) lying on an altar. The movie had a girl with psychic powers or witchcraft they were often synonymous in the late 70s. It had to be between 19, I know a huge time frame. This movie is about witches and the occult satanism in particular. Yesterday's Midnight Offerings made me want to search a little more a movie that has been "haunting" me forever.
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