AboveDeepBuggy Some things I liked some I did not.

HottWwjdIam There is just so much movie here. For some it may be too much. But in the same secretly sarcastic way most telemarketers say the phrase, the title of this one is particularly apt.

Casey Duggan It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

TheRedDeath30 Yes, that pun was too easy.We all have our own tastes. It's what makes sites like this fun and keeps the debates raging. It's what allows us to feel superior to others when we like a movie that we're sure is too smart for most people, or when we hate a movie that the "sheep" will flock to love. Often, with these sort of "cult classic" films, they get the moniker for a very good reason. A minority will treasure the movie and consider it to be a 10-star classic, while most are not going to understand the appeal. I have plenty of my own cult classic loves. This just isn't one of them.I consider myself to be a horror junkie. I love horror dating back to silent classics and up through this year's releases. I love major studio and indie, domestic and foreign. I say this not to feel that my opinion is any more valid than anyone else's but to say that I think my ratings and reviews prove that I'm not narrow minded to one time era or style of horror. I would say, though, that there are few horror movies from the first half of the 70s that really stand out. Romero changed the game, in 69, with NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, introducing an amazing mixture of gut-churning gore and intelligent social messages in horror. It was revolutionary, but it also left horror struggling to figure itself out for a few years. There isn't a straight "style" to horror of this era. Most that I have seen fall into this genre, like LET'S SCARE, of looking low budget, feeling amateurish and trying very hard to inject artistic and social style, while playing for subtle creepiness. It's not an easy mixture to get right.This film is about a hip young woman who leaves the big city with her musician husband and their hippie pal, setting out for the country to get her mind correct after a breakdown. We get a little bit of DELIVERANCE style scare as the townies don't take kindly to new flower children, driving around in their hearse. They settle into an old farmhouse, on an orchard, that happens to be inhabited by a squatter. The bulk of the picture spends its' time trying to spin a web of chilling frights where we're meant to question whether the events are real or in our heroine's mind. She starts unraveling as events get more terrifying around her until the final nefarious plot is revealed (or was it?).The problem with the movie is that it's not half as clever as it thinks it is and spends far too much time boring the audience to death. I'm all for psychological horror. Some of my favorite horror films of all time would fall into that realm, but I need something more than a woman who talks to herself. That's basically the movie in a nutshell. Our heroine talking to herself. The two men in the house spend most of their time trying to get into the pants of our squatter, who is only marginally attractive and a little bit creepy. Shallow criticism, for sure, but if the whole plot is that I'm supposed to believe these men are falling over themselves to do her bidding, I'm not buying.There is no atmosphere built and the movie is begging for it. Use the orchard. Use the creepy attic. Use some fog and the lake that surrounds their island home. Use some dreamlike cinematography. There are so many missed opportunities in this movie, that I just can't recommend it for most people. I see all these 10 star reviews and just can't understand it, at all, but to each his own. I rarely give movies a rating this low. I find that most movies fall into an medium of mediocrity that gets them an average rating, but I was so bored by this one and just waiting for it to end.

Johan Louwet Slow burners can really be good but a formula for success they are not at least not for me. I think Zohra Lampert did a good job playing Jessica, a young woman recently released from a mental hospital trying to pick up her life again with her husband Duncan and friend of the family Woody. they move into a house on the countryside where they meet up with Emily, who had broken into the house. But Jessica feels sorry for this young girl who seemingly has no place else to go, so Emily can stay as long as she desires. So the townspeople are quite weird, Emily gets manipulative over the newbies and Jessica hears voices in her head. She also sees things that others don't but still she tries her best that nothing is wrong. If not for her good screenplay I would have rated this movie even lower. The other characters including Emily are just not interesting nor is the storyline any exciting and pretty predictable at that. The finale is really disappointing. Not a fan of vampires but this must be one of the lamest vampire movies I have seen.

Skye Tripp (teamcophine) This movie... This is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen in all of my life. The soundtrack is just ridiculous. The effects are terrible, the shots are awful, the acting is mediocre at best; but when you add all of it together; it's just so awful that it's good. It's a shame that this is now out of print (at least that's all I could gather at this point). However, Netflix does have a DVD copy of this film that is available to rent by mail, but they do not currently have the option of instantly streaming the film. There is a free (and full) edition of Let's Scare Jessica to Death posted on YouTube, which has been up for close to a couple of years now and has not had any issues. My suggestion: watch it on YouTube if you aren't willing to pay anywhere from $25 to $75+ on the DVD copy (most copies that are readily available are used anyway). I've been looking just about everywhere for the soundtrack to this. There was never any official soundtrack released. However, there are several download links available for the scores that have been directly cut out of the actual movie. Link to movie (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOWhNcK-4cs Link to score (unofficial): http://www.mediafire.com/?kqp07q4akpvl3x8

JasparLamarCrabb Creepy perhaps but no real scares are to be had in director John D. Hancock's film. Neurotic Zohra Lampert is released from a mental hospital and takes up residence in an old manor house (where, of course, some untoward shenanigans took place). She starts hearing voices, seeing ghosts and a rather insistent dead woman in a lake. Lampert is fine and Mariclare Costello is terrific as Emily, who's not really as nice as she seems. Hancock's direction is OK, but he doesn't seem to realize that he's making a horror movie; the film is so inert it's boring. There are odd touches here and there (Lampert's mode of transportation is a hearse) and some fine production values, but they're all for naught. Without scares, it's hard to recommend a supposed horror film.