 
After
being released from an institution by
suffering from a nervous breakdown,
Jessica (Zohra Lampert) is trying to get
her life together along with her husband
Duncan (Barton Heyman) and close friend
Woody (Kevin O'Connor) as they seek the
tranquility to a secluded farm home in
Conneticut to help her make her recovery
complete.
However, they encounter a strange woman
named Emily (Mariclare Costello) also
living in their house as apparently they
find a picture of a woman who drowned
there on her wedding day that looks just
like Emily.
The farmhouse claims to be haunted and
rumour has it that Emily has returned
from the dead as a vampiress this time.
Jessica finds dead bodies of local people
around her property she as well but
Duncan and Woody just tell Jessica it's
all her imagination.
Is Jessica going crazy again, and can she
escape the madness that is surrounding
her?
A nicely done
mysterious horror flick as you wonder all
the way through if this is a hoax,
illusions or is it really happening.
You do sort of wonder where it is going
and it goes along greatly even if
sometimes the story doesn't make sense
but again it wasn't meant to since it's
supposed to be a brainteaser.
It is quite eerie in lots of spots in the
film which makes you wonder if the
missing pieces will come together.
The acting is a
little average but good in some spots. Zohra Lampert
seems to pull off well as someone trying
to recover from a nervous breakdown and
does well with her speech disorder too.
Mariclare
Costello is the best one in the film
with her outgoing actions and lustful
words too which makes her deadly and
mysterious too which she also knew how to
do greatly.
Supporting actress Gretchen Corbett looked
perfect as a mysterious mute one spying
on the place and just the way she does
things is all that mattered for her well
performance.
John D. Hancock
was a little slow with his direction so
it was hard for me to review alot of it
but he did show some good stuff in it to
make this film look great.
There was a suspenseful
moment when Zohra Lampert is
walking towards a hallway to a staircase
and everything seems still and suddenly Mariclare
Costello jumps out of nowhere
catching her by surprise which makes you
jump a bit.
We see a nice brief dialogue between Lampert
and Costello discussing to stay
the night as it looks believeably
welcoming.
There's a good shot on Lampert
after she tries to summon up spirits as
she shows a good dazed smile.
We see great dialgogues with all the
actors like Lampert, Costello,
Barton Heyman and Kevin
O'Connor hanging out at the lake as
it looks like a good relationship towards
one another.
We see a good camera shot on one of the
smaller actors playing a local crazy
towards Lampert while holding
groceries by her car as it almost gives
you a clue to the story in this film and
it almost convinces you that she might
get hurt.
There was a good shot on young actress Gretchen
Corbett waving towards Lampert
to come follow her and it looked good on
the two of them running too.
Lampert looked great at trying to
force something out of Corbett
after what she saw with her wild but
reasonable expressions.
We see a great tripped out reactions on Lampert
towards Heyman in a bed
scene about what she is seeing as if she
is going crazy again.
A nice tense setting was with Lampert
and Costello at a pier next to a
lake and Costello acting aroused
around her and then behaving extremely
strange which makes you think to yourself
what is going to happen?
There's a terrific camera shot on Costello
rising from the lake in a gown looking
like some sort of a spirit.
There's a good shot on Lampert running
away towards the house in the field.
We spot a lustful dialogue between Costello
and Heyman as Costello
talks soothing towards Heyman and
he is unsure of what she is doing then we
see her mouth going to his neck.
There's many great shots on Lampert
encountering people around town bit
bitemarks on their necks too and her
shocked reactions.
Orville Stoeber
has some nice low keyboard settings to
the plot of of this movies which sounds
similar to the 1981 slasher flick
Just Before Dawn
Jessica:
I was just, er, looking at the picture.
It looks so much like you.
Emily: My lord, it does. Gee, how
weird. What's the matter?
Jessica: Nothing. It's just, er,
it does look so very much like you.
Emily: It's an old print. It could
look like anybody.
Jessica: No, it's... it's the
eyes.
Emily:
Do you like my new dress? My new old
dress?
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