Really Surprised!

Crappy film

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Just watched "The Reincarnation of Peter Proud" and it still packs a punch.

Michael Sarrazin plays the title character--a professor who is having strange, vivid and recurrent dream about another person's life. It's troubling him...especially since these all have the same story again and again...of some woman bashing her husband to death with an oar on a lake several decades ago! Peter seeks out help from various professionals but this gets him no where. Then, by chance, he sees a scene on television that is right out of his dreams---and it's in Massachusetts--a place in which he's never been!The trail takes Peter to this town and there he's able to assemble the many details of the life that's stuck in his head...and now he's thoroughly convinced he's the reincarnation of this dead man! But here's where it gets really creepy. He meets the woman who committed this murder and begins dating her daughter...who is the daughter of the dead man. And, in a way, it's like Peter is having sex with his own daughter! Kinky, weird and definitely something right out of Freud!So is this any good? Well, yes...but I have a SERIOUS caveat--there is a lot of nudity, a rape and some masturbation. It's NOT a film for kids or the prudish! And, much of this is very gratuitous. Oddly, despite showing so much nudity, in the final scene which SHOULD have been very bloody there is none! Still, a compelling story and it's well made and worth seeing.

I recently watched "The Reincarnation of Peter Proud" on Youtube 40 years after I saw it in a theater.Reincarnation is a complicated subject, but the film does a fairly good job of explaining some of its intricacies. Peter Proud (Michael Sarrazin) begins having strange dreams of people that he has never met and places he has never been to. In order to find some peace, he goes in search of the images in his dreams and finds them in a town in Massachusetts.I really enjoyed the slow unraveling of the mystery and the performances are great, especially Margot Kidder as a widow with a terrible secret.

J. Lee Thompson directed this adaptation of Max Ehrlich's novel that stars Michael Sarrazin as Peter Proud, a college professor who is plagued by nightmares of a violent death in a place he's never been, but is able to track down to a city in New England where he believes he lived in a past life. He meets Marcia Curtis(played by Margot Kidder) who recognizes his voice and manner as that of her late husband, but can't believe it, though when Peter shows romantic interest in her(their?) daughter Ann(played by Jennifer O'Neill), she must take a similar drastic action just like before... Interesting premise, and nicely filmed in real New England locations, but film is ultimately too lurid, seamy, and unsatisfying to succeed, though has a most ironic end. Not yet on DVD for some reason, though is on YouTube.