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Distributer unfairly made you think this was a HORROR MOVIE in 1976/77!

posted 7 years ago by shango7200
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The slime-ball distributers made you think this was a horror movie in the original trailer from 1977 !
"and everything she kept.....IN THE BASEMENT" . Yeah right. As if it was a slasher movie with a pile of bodies in the celler. NO WAY! LOL. This was pretty much a dark gothic ABC After School Special or a Movie of the Week. Jodie Foster was quite good in this and I will admit - the movie does have an "atmosphere" .
This was more like a psycho-MELODRAMA than a thriller or horror movie.
This was released the same time as Suspiria - late summer 1977.
I feel bad for anyone who paid to see this ..... thinking it was a HORROR MOVIE.
Even the title has a Last House on the Left feeling to it. Who knew it would have a huge cult-following on here. Oh well....

"In every dimension , there's another YOU!"

[–] daverindone 7 years ago

I remember hearing about this being advertised on TV with the idea that it was going to be a "straight" horror movie, but really being drawn into Rynn's fight for survival rather than the a Night Of The Living Dead frightfest. I believe it came out a good year before the heavy hitters like Suspiria (as you mentioned) and The Sentinel, but it could claim to have many horror elements such as being stalked, isolation, murder, secrets, jump scares and mature themes. Similar to Wait Until Dark (and both are stage plays) this taps into the fears of what's out there in the dark trying to get to you.

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[–] daverindone 7 years ago

Me? I help run a function hall, too. Wrong biz?

[–] shango7200 7 years ago

I make people laugh at parties ! But my point was this is not really a horror movie -- as we were lead to believe originally.
There are also some variations on the movie poster that make this look like a BLOODBATH ! I used to have a " 16 MM film rental" poster for this all in red graphics and bloody looking!

"In every dimension , there's another YOU!"

[–] daverindone 7 years ago

That reminds me of Silent Night, Bloody Night. That had so many covers it ranged from outright horror to softcore porn.

[–] shango7200 7 years ago

I LOVE THAT MOVIE !

"In every dimension , there's another YOU!"

[–] wreckage3001 7 years ago

So you keep the distributors and everyone responsible for the misleading trailers from back then in your cellar and they don't decompose because you put stuff on them?

[–] whynotwriteme (7121) 6 years ago

In 1977, this actually was considered a horror movie. Until 1980, gory explicit slasher movies were very rare and obscure.

[–] MissMargoChanning (6630) 6 years ago

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Thanks. That was sort of what I was thinking.
This was actually sort of a thriller. That's the way I felt about it when I went to see it in 1977. I still feel the same.

[–] Speeed (170) 4 years ago

Yeah, I agree with you. When I saw this poster as a kid in 76, I thought it was a scary slasher movie so I avoided it. Seeing it later, I realized it wasn't even close. It was a somewhat misleading ad.