Just got my copy on Blu-ray from Amazon. Looks great. While reading the board, it is so nice to see, so many with nice things to say about this movie. Funny how so many of us are in the same boat, saw it when I was eight. Saw it on TV, never knew it was in theaters. Haven't seen it in almost 35 years. But it always stuck with me...well the creepy chauffeur stuck with me. I love finding movies I loved as kid again. It is still what I remembered.
shareI saw this movie when I was about 4. Parts of it always stuck with me. Specifically, the creepy chauffer, an old lady in the attic and the house bricks falling down. I couldn't remember the name and it took me a few years to find it again. Love, love, love it so much! I wish they still made scary movies like this. Gore and jump scares are fun too, but I much prefer a creepy vibe with more left to the imagination.
shareI saw this on TV as a teenager, home alone on a dark night. Still the ONLY film I had to turn off cuz I was too scared.
I was a little disappointed in the Blu Ray because there were no subtitles of CCs. I like to turn them on while listening to the commentary track.
I saw this when it aired as a kid. I was too frightened to watch it through when the grinning chauffeur wheels in the casket.
shareSaw it in the theatre as part of a double feature when I was 12 or 13, so 1977 or 78. Scared the crap out of me. Still does.
Let Polly do the printing
Writer William F. Nolan said that critics hated the film back when it was released. He said in the years after, so many people came to him with compliments on how good the movie was that he learned to not take critics so seriously! What he had helped create had worked quite well for the audiences!
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I am not a fan. I just happen to enjoy movies. Fans are embarrassing.
Movies are made for regular PEOPLE, not critics.
The only opinion that really matters to me is MY OWN.
I dont usually agree with critics and there are some critics I can bank on; if they love it, I will hate it and vice versa.
What I dont like is to hear critical people inventing stuff and talking trash just for attention to their opinions.
For the most part I just like to get an idea what a movie is about. I will make up my mind wheter I like it or not. I just dont want to waste money on movies that are not of any real interest to me.
Burnt Offerings is a movie that, to this day, is one that I will never forget. I think it is Dan Curtis' best piece of work.
it is highly underrated
shareI saw it about 6 years ago on DVD when I was about 17 years old. I was so absorbed in the story, characters, and atmosphere that I completely forgot the real world existed. I was completely taken away. That almost never happens so it instantly became one of my favorites and still is. I've watched it many times since then and plan to many more.
shareI wish you'd have gotten to see it when you were a little kid like I did. It really made a lasting impression back in those days and was a film I have never forgotten!
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I am not a fan. I just happen to enjoy movies. Fans are embarrassing.
I totally agree
shareMe too. Saw it on tv at age 9 and it made a deep impressiin. Stuck with me too. Its a big memory from ny childhood.
The impression it left was intense!
Same here. I remember seeing it on tv at a very young age. The chauffeur scared the piss out of me and I would somehow get it mixed up with the scare scenes in Dont Go to Sleep (1982).
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