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1978 Certificate 18
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Maggie and Pete arrive in England to stay in a country house. Their happy and contented existence is shattered when one by one their house guests are brutally killed. Read more

Starring Sam Elliott, Katherine Ross, Roger Daltrey, John Standing
Director Richard Marquand
Genres Drama

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The Legacy

Maggie and Pete arrive in England to stay in a country house. Their happy and contented existence is shattered when one by one their house guests are brutally killed.

Starring Sam Elliott, Katherine Ross, Roger Daltrey, John Standing, Ian Hogg, Charles Gray
Director Richard Marquand
Studio FREMANTLE HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time DVD: 1 hr 38 mins
Certificate Certificate 18
Genres Drama
Language DVD: English
Released DVD: 25 Apr 2005
Production year: 1978
Format DVD

  • Critics' reviews (3) of The Legacy

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  • 2 stars out of 5

    This modern variation on The Old Dark House formula finds Californians Katharine Ross and Sam Elliott stranded with a group of strangers — the Who's Roger Daltrey among them — in an English country mansion. As the guests are bumped off one by one, a Satanism subplot is introduced into the already unfocused proceedings to add extra suspense — it doesn't. A botched supernatural thriller with only some fiendishly clever death schemes to commend it.

    • Radio Times
    • Posted 29 Jan 2006

  • A typically loony English-country-house horror from the pen of Jimmy Sangster, which dumps its statutory American leads... read more on Time Out

    • Time Out
    • Posted 04 Nov 2008

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  • Rated - 3 stars

    At least there are no Ewoks in this one.

    A quirky little horror movie from the director of Return Of The Jedi, The Legacy is a competant piece of Satanic shennanigans set mainly in a country mansion.

    A group of people die, one by one, as they wait to find who will inherit the black magical powers of the leader of their group.

    There are some effective and fairly imaginative death scenes throughout the film, but it falls apart a little at the end as the token American goes gung-ho to save the day.

    Worth watching if you're a fan of 1970s horror movies, and even more worth a watch if you want to get back to the days when every death scene didn't feature a power tool.

      • A customer from Surrey, England
      • Posted 09 Jul 2005 18:37

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  • Rated - 3 stars [Highly rated reviewer]

    Enjoyable 70s horror hokum

    This is one of those 1970s 'horror' films that has a catchy theme song (sung here by Kiki Dee), an A-list American star (Kathering Ross or Sam Elliott, depending on your choice), some B-list British stars, a cameo from a famous pop star (Roger Daltrey) and some inventively 'gory' death scenes that nowadays makes you question why this film is still rated 18. Totally enjoyable horror hokum though - and from the guy who directed 'Return Of The Jedi'

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