Bette Davis, Burgess Meredith, Dub Taylor

A haunted-house thriller about a house which draws energy from its inhabitants and selects its own keeper from the family of Ben and Marian Rolf, who rent the strangely-affordable house one fateful su...( read more  read more... )mmer then find themselves slowly succumbing to its creepy powers.

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PG, 1 hr. 55 min.

Directed by: Dan Curtis

Release Date: January 1, 1976

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DVD Release Date: August 26, 2003

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  • April 13, 2009
    This felt like a "made for tv" movie, with the exception of the last five minutes of the film (which almost made up for the prior 115 minutes).

    Staring Karen Black as: Karen Black
    Oliver Reed as: Oliver Reed
    and Bette Davis as: Bette Davis

    No REAL surprises here (with the...( read more) exception of the last five minutes).

    Not horrible...just kind of slow.
  • March 1, 2009
    I started to watch Burnt Offerings on TV, but it takes such a long time to come to the point, I left it going in the next room and came to the computer for my entertainment.
  • January 11, 2009
    A solid supernatural chiller, Burnt Offerings makes a decent haunted-house flick for a dark night. Roughly on par with films such as The Amityville Horror and The Legend of Hell House, and quite similar to The Shining (although Burnt Offerings came first in both book and film), ...( read more)it's familiar territory, but it boasts enough originality and tension to keep it interesting. It's not the best of its kind, but it's definitely worth a look.
  • August 21, 2007
    One of the better "haunted house" movies even though it's still a bit long and not as scary as it could be.
    It's no surprise to learn that Stephen King rates Robert Marasco's novel (which this is based on) quite highly as it certainly seems to have influenced "The Shining" and...( read more) "Rose Red".
    The acting is just what you'd expect from Karen Black and Oliver Reed but don't let that put you off as the spookiness of the house almost makes up for it.
    Apart from a very telegraphed but still shocking ending the only thing which really lets this down is that it seems to suffer from excessive padding. It could have been done in half the time really.
  • July 21, 2007
    This movie is one of the worst movies I've ever seen. Truly horrendous...
  • October 20, 2009
    Scary from start to finish even though I figured out the ending before it happened
  • August 29, 2009
    just and old favorite of mine.
  • May 29, 2009
    Karen Black and Bette Davis! Need I say more???
  • March 11, 2009
    Very different than today's psychological horror.

    The movie is not very easy to grasp but I enjoyed it the second time around.
  • December 7, 2008
    This movie scared me as a child. I look at it now and it is a joke of a thriller. As an adult I see that there is a deeper meaning as to why things are happening in the haunted house but there are still confusing parts. The movie drags a bit and most people will be bored to death...( read more). Not for everyone.

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