What a blast from the past!


I can't believe I remembered the title of this movie....I saw it on tv a couple of times when I was a kid. IMDB says it came out in 81, so I was 10 or 11 then.

Even then I remember it being super corny....but it still scared the fudge out of me. In my memory, I thought the guy and girl were married, but I guess according to the description, she was his nurse.

Most memorable scenes:

The fireplace bricks that breathed like lungs (soooo corny).

When the house turned the pool temp up to boiling and then blew the told bag lady into it when she was telling the main lady about her being there as a child.

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I was only eight when I saw it, so the "breathing" fireplace freaked me out! lol

That house had the coolest design. From what I remember, it was like a super modern log cabin. I remember it had alot of exposed wood. I wish I knew where they filmed that or who even owns that house, if it still stands.

As an achitectural design graduate, I would LOVE to have a set of plans of that estate!

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I loved this movie, I remember watching it on what is now known as the Fox network when I was a kid. I loved the part at the end where she screams "If you really love me, let me go!" and then everything stops.

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It was a pretty cool house... I remember thinking it was ultra-modern back in 1981 when I first saw this movie... since then though, I've noticed that it reminds me a lot of Joseph Eichler's style.

... the hardest thing in this world is to live in it...

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KIngtermite, we must be the same age! I was born in '70, also and probably saw it the same year you did. I remember the fireplace breathing scene, too. but the most memorable scne for me (and the creepiest) was when the gates crushed that woman (the librarian?) in her car while she was trying to get through. Grant tried to stop the gates and get them to open, by fiddling with the electronic thing, but couldn't and her car caught on fire and she died--creepy!

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Same with me. I was born in '70 and the same scenes stick out in my memory. I also remember Slim Pickens getting killed by flying pieces of a broken mirror. If I am thinking of the same movie.

Funny side note, I was snooping around and found a Parker Stevenson site with actual sound clips from this movie.

http://1forparker.tripod.com/parkerstevenson/id11.html

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I was also born in 1970. I first heard of Possessed was when I saw the ad for it in TV Guide. I remember thinking "I must see that".
They need to bring it back on TV because I miss it plenty.


-L31

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I was like 5 when I first saw this movie and I never forgot the title because it totally freaked me out! I remember the walls breathing, the boiling pool, the shower water turning to blood and the car being smashed in at the gate. It was so crazy because the house that I lived in had a possessed air about it... we would go to bed and when we would get up in the morning, all the chairs would be piled on top of the kitchen table. This movie started my love-affair with scary movies. But for about a week, my sister and I could not go to the bathroom by ourselves at night for fear of seeing our walls breathing!

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My sister and I, too, watched this movie several times. It seems like it was on once a year for several years in a row - kind of like The Sound of Music or Mary Poppins. Does anyone remember a scene with a bed cathcing on fire?

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I remember at the end when they are trying to escape the house and along with the breathing bricks, the air conditioner and heater started messing with them. They do get trapped in the laundry room and start a fire to break free--which causes the house to burn down.

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I'm not the only kid to remember that movie! I was all of fourteen but exactly the age that all of the teenagers were watching Parker Stevenson. I agree with a previous comment; while we all remember different things that scared the heck out us, what we ALL remember is how good he looked! Too bad Amazon or Chapters don't carry this. Seems to me there are an awful lot of us thirty-somethings that would pick it up *smile*
Thanks for remembering, everyone. That truly WAS a 'blast from the past'!

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What i remember the most was the shower turning to blood-that totally freaked me out, but i was already loving horror movies, so it became one of my favorites.

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I just wanted to thank all of you for describing the movie scenes. I couldn't remember the movie title, so I googled the scenes I remembered (blood in the shower, boiling swimming pool) and found this site with your posts! I couldn't remember the name of the movie but wanted to see it again. I too haven't seen it since I was about 11 years old (born in 73) but never forgot this movie. I found it online to buy at
http://www.allcluesnosolutions.com/index.php?searchstring=This+House+Possessed
I just ordered it today so I can't comment on the quality of the order yet.
Thank you all for being as creeped out as I was so many years ago!

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Hi, Melissa... I thoroughly enjoyed this movie and would love to own it, too... I was a little older than most posters on this thread seem to have been when it first came out (24, maybe 25)... do you think you could leave a post for us after you've watched the copy you bought... let us know if it's worth ordering... it would be much appreciated!

... the hardest thing in this world is to live in it...

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Wasn't there also a scene where someone was swimming and when they tried to surface, the water turned to jelly on the top and they couldn't come back up for air too?

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