Burnt Offerings

Name: Burnt Offerings
Genre: Horror
Released: 2005-11-20T14:43:24-08:00
Rating: 33

1976

Burnt Offerings

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33%

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Reviews Counted: 9

41%
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User Ratings: 4,250

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Reviews Count: 0
Fresh: 0
Rotten: 0

Average Rating: 3.1/5

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Dan Curtis, director of TV's Dark Shadows series, directed this eerie 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 (Oliver Reed & Karen Black), who rent the strangely-affordable house one fateful summer then find themselves slowly succumbing to its creepy powers. The photography is suitably moody, and many of the standard haunted-house cliches are used to decent effect -- particularly a violent scene in which the surrounding woods form a barrier to prevent the family station wagon from escaping the area -- but the pace is too leisurely overall, climaxing with the type of grim ending employed by nearly every mainstream horror film in the late 70's. Black's spooky looks are used to maximum effect, but are never quite as chilling as the final shot of Curtis's TV movie Trilogy of Terror from the previous year.

Rating:

R
Genre:

Horror
Directed By:

Dan Curtis
Written By:

Dan Curtis, William F. Nolan
In Theaters:

Jan 1, 1976 wide
On Disc/Streaming:

Aug 26, 2003
Runtime:

116 minutes
Studio:

Produzioni Europee Associati

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Cast

Karen Black
as Marian Rolf

Oliver Reed
as Ben Rolf

Bette Davis
as Aunt Elizabeth

Burgess Meredith
as Arnold Allardyce

Joseph Riley
as Ben's Father

Eileen Heckart
as Roz Allardyce

Lee H. Montgomery
as David "Davey" Rolf

Dub Taylor
as Walker

Anthony James
as Chauffeur

Orin Cannon
as Minister

James T. Myers
as Dr. Ross

Todd Turquand
as Young Ben

Jim Myers
as Dr. Ross

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Critic Reviews for Burnt Offerings

All Critics (9) | Top Critics (1) | Fresh (3) | Rotten (6) | DVD (3)

Burnt Offerings is a mystery, all right. What's mysterious is that the filmmakers were able to sell such a weary collection of ancient cliches for cold hard cash.

Oct 23, 2004 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…

Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
Top Critic
One of those all-too-familiar movie rendezvous through the doldrums of horror mediocrity.

Oct 12, 2014 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…

David Keyes
Cinemaphile.org
Plodding, campy haunted-house chiller.

Apr 12, 2010 | Rating: B- | Full Review…

Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Haunted house completists should check it out, but don't expect a classic.

Apr 3, 2005 | Rating: 2.5/5

Scott Weinberg
eFilmCritic.com
Black e Reed oferecem boas performances, o que é um feito admirável em um filme no qual até mesmo Bette Davis parece perdida - e o inspirado ato final quase salva o projeto.

Oct 30, 2004 | Rating: 3/5

Pablo Villaça
Cinema em Cena
One of those comfortable relics that doesn't scare so much as mildly chill.

Sep 3, 2003 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…

Walter Chaw
Film Freak Central
Tepid old house thriller marginally redeemed by Reed and Bette Davis.

Jun 16, 2003 | Rating: 3/5

Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

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Audience Reviews for Burnt Offerings

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 exception of the last five minutes). Not horrible...just kind of slow.

Robert C

Super Reviewer

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.