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
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DVD Release Date: August 26, 2003
Stats: 175 reviews
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)
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.
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)
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)
Scary from start to finish even though I figured out the ending before it happened
Very different than today's psychological horror.
The movie is not very easy to grasp but I enjoyed it the second time around.
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)
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