Amazon.com video review:
When a recent widower (the wonderfully overemphatic George
C. Scott ) moves into an antique Washington mansion, his realization
that he may not be the only resident leads him toward a deadly secret
that refuses to remain buried....The best haunted-house film since the
legendary Haunting, this
potent, classy combination of the mystery and horror genres eschews
explicit gore and dumb shocks in exchange for a subtle creepiness that
occasionally builds to a terrifying peak (watch out for that seance
scene!). The result is a satisfyingly intelligent horror film with an
intriguing dash of Watergate-era paranoia. Director Peter Medak went
on to direct the considerably more gratuitous and somewhat less
effective Romeo Is
Bleeding and The
Krays. --Andrew Wright
