I have to admit that I watched the first thirty minutes and was so bored that I sped through the next hour, stopping when it looked interesting.
There are two very creepy scenes. One where a girl's dead father shambles after her in a dark room, and another where a literal parade of "freaks" tries to get the same girl to kill herself. Weird and unsettling in the extreme.
Most other scenes are nonsensical (FF notwithstanding), and could easily be removed from the movie without affecting anything. The film has no momentum and characters come and go with no real purpose.
Beverly D'Angelo's masturbation scene, however, would have gone down in folklore history if more people had seen this boring mess.
The rest is laughable. Chris Saradon's acting at the end is too google-eyed to be taken seriously, and Burgess Meredith is about as scary as Grandpa Simpson. If this was some studio's answer to the Exorcist, I'm amazed they're still in business.
There are two very creepy scenes. One where a girl's dead father shambles after her in a dark room, and another where a literal parade of "freaks" tries to get the same girl to kill herself. Weird and unsettling in the extreme.
Most other scenes are nonsensical (FF notwithstanding), and could easily be removed from the movie without affecting anything. The film has no momentum and characters come and go with no real purpose.
Beverly D'Angelo's masturbation scene, however, would have gone down in folklore history if more people had seen this boring mess.
The rest is laughable. Chris Saradon's acting at the end is too google-eyed to be taken seriously, and Burgess Meredith is about as scary as Grandpa Simpson. If this was some studio's answer to the Exorcist, I'm amazed they're still in business.