The Legacy
1978
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 |
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| 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 | |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 25 Apr 2005 Production year: 1978 |
| Format | DVD |
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Critics' reviews (3)
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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.
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A typically loony English-country-house horror from the pen of Jimmy Sangster, which dumps its statutory American leads... read more on Time Out
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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. -
Most recent members' review
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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. -
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