Very best movie i ever watch

Must See Movie...

Admirable film.

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

I got this as a gift-the blu ray edition-and was excited to see it because I never heard of it. As far as the blu ray transfer it is not the greatest but worth a look.Blair should have two credits one being her hair. It was distracting but in a funny way. The movie itself was unfortunately slow and somewhat boring, I wasn't expecting much being 1978 so it was not as much of a disappointment than it should have been.Camp value is what you come to see this for. The showdown at the end which takes forever to get to was fabulously cheesy. The scene with her mother near the end was funny. But the biggest thing that surprised me was when she lost her boyfriend the family acts like its ok. Creepiest scenes were with the horse. The major twist I should have seen coming but didn't oh well must be getting old.Also Fran Dresher shows up here which was a surprise-that laugh ugh. If you like old 70s tv movies its worth a look just don't expect to find a hidden gem.

Wes Craven's directorial career was erratic, to say the least. After the success of low-budget shockers The Last House on The Left and The Hills Have Eyes, Craven opted to pay the bills by working on this made-for-TV chiller starring a podgy Linda Blair. Bound by broadcasting regulations, the result is a tepid and predictable affair, lacking the imagination and visceral impact of the director's previous horror films.Blair stars as teenager Rachel Bryant, whose idyllic life gradually turns into a nightmare after her pretty cousin Julia (Lee Purcell) moves into her home, her own parents having accidentally driven off the edge of a cliff. It's not long before Julia has stolen Rachel's boyfriend Mike (Jeff McCracken), who is happy to trade up, and causes further trouble by flirting with Rachel's dad (Jeremy Slate). To add insult to injury, Julia also starts to hang out with Rachel's best friend Carolyn (Fran Drescher). So when Rachel discovers that Julia might be a witch and voices her suspicions, everyone assumes it's just a case of petty jealousy. How wrong can they be?As things unfold exactly as you imagine they will, Craven delivers a few scenes of 'mild peril' but nothing truly scary (although Blair's huge hair, the sight of the dumpy actress crammed into a nasty pink dress, and Fran Drescher's voice are somewhat disturbing). Purcell steals the show with her 'good girl/bad girl' routine, looking lovely throughout, and going full-on evil at the end with a maniacal grin and devilish contact lenses. As if all that had gone before wasn't predictable enough, the film closes with one of those silly endings that shows that the nightmare isn't over yet. Yawn.

BUT NOTE = UNMISSABLE TEN STAR ********** L. BLAIR ENTRY! This TV movie is now perhaps more fairly titled the same as its (Lois Duncan) book source, although was originally shown more accurately with the title 'Stranger in Our House', since it's an early example of the ' dangerous / nutter cuckoo in the nest' genre that became popular later (like Single White Female and Hand that Rocks Cradle etc.), and so, if not matched with such as some sort of double bill, is otherwise a fairly routine 'nobody believes me, I'm the only one who can see we have a destructive force right under our noses' more or less forgettable offering …Ah, that is UNLESS, in curio, you watch keeping in mind it was the late W.Craven's not only, only third film, but also his first in 35 mm apparently (Last House and Hills were in 16mm, did you know? - all gleaned from re-issue W.Craven collection direct from the, ah, horse's* mouth audio commentary), but even then seems dully devoid of any of his flourishes. (Being a TV film, certainly none of his more characteristic horror gore.)OR, for the real reason a must see watch, is if you are a fan of pint sized, cherub faced beauty dear Linda Blair, coz in which case, this becomes a simply unmissable TEN STAR film in her oeuvre, since she is not only in virtually every scene, but she sports an utterly magnificent 70's style big hair ringlet perm throughout by which to top some superb flashing eyes and smiles sessions (particularly when grooming her horse) - e.g. at one time slapped in the face by Mom that appears to be so realistically hard, that her subsequent burst into tears is surely genuine rather than acting. In short (opps, sorry about that pun there) she really is delightful in this one. (And in passing, I can imagine Wes was rather enamoured of her - rear end profile especially, too, as there are surprisingly many of her posed or walking away longueur takes throughout its running!)BTW:, once you settle down so to savour Linda, you can also look out for (I believe debut?) of future 'Nanny' Fran Dreschler, already almost incapable of disguising that idiosyncratic Bronx nasal drawl of hers.So, if not a L. Blair fan, beware, although, perhaps can also be fun double billed with another of the source material' s Ms. Duncan's 'summers' titles: 'I Know What you did Last Summer', too. *And apparently that's how they got horse-riding mad Linda to star, by changing the 'it can intuit a witch' animal from the book source, originally a dog.

This October 31,2008 will mark the 30th anniversary of "Summer of Fear"/"Stranger in our House"(which ever you prefer).A young girl named Rachel (played by the Exorcist's Linda Blair)is visited by her cousin Julia(Lee Purcell)after Julia's parents are killed in a car accident.Everyone likes Julia and is taken by her at first. That is until strange things start to happen that only Rachel notices and strange objects that Rachel finds that leads her to believe that her cousin may be a witch. No one believes Rachel's accusations and thinks she's just jealous of Julia.It's up to Rachel and her neighbor Professor Jarvis(played by MacDonald Carey,Days of our Lives)to expose Julia for what she is.This movie also stars Jeff East(Huckleberry Finn,The Day After)and(a unknown at the time)Fran Drescher who later gained fame with the hit series"The Nanny".This movie does have some scary moments.