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Woody
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Critic Reviews for Let's Scare Jessica to Death
All Critics (10) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (3) | Rotten (7)
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With the exception of Zohra Lampert's subtle and knowledgeable performance, no one in the cast has enough substance even to be considered humanoid.
February 8, 2018 | Full Review… -
Let's Scare Jessica to Death spends 90 minutes tapping lightly but incessantly on its heroine's fragile sanity, as though it were some sort of Faberg S&M model egg.
August 27, 2006 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review… -
Director John Hancock and lead actress Zohra Lampert collaborate to produce something stranger and vaguer than the film's countless contemporaries, giving the heroine far greater agency.
October 20, 2020 | Full Review… -
A cult fave, but not once does it ever come close to matching the under-the-skin potency of such gems as Carnival of Souls, Night of the Living Dead and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
February 5, 2020 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review… -
A promising exercise in weirdness that will have you hanging until the end.
September 16, 2013 | Rating: B- | Full Review… -
Great title, lousy film.
November 9, 2011 | Rating: C | Full Review…
Audience Reviews for Let's Scare Jessica to Death
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Apr 09, 2013Made just two years after the Charles Manson murders, "Let's Scare Jessica To Death" has a weird hippy vibe to it, eerie with it's elements of communalism and counter-culture ostracization. Jessica is a timid sort of house wife, moving with her husband and a friend to a house out in the country. In town, they meet a group of locals who don't want them around. Arriving at the farm house, they're greeted by a squatter named Emily. In true hippy fashion, they invite Emily to stay with them. But Jessica, who was recently released from a mental institution, starts to have odd hallucinations. But are they hallucinations? For such an obviously low budget, Let's Scare Jessica To Death manages create some fairly jarring, frightening images. The film is more disturbing than horrific, it makes us question who the crazy people are: Jessica (and us, as we observe through her eyes) or the people messing with Jessica, if they indeed are. It's a disturbing film, in the tradition of something like "Carnival of Souls". There are no clear answers and the whole thing doesn't make a lot of sense, which is probably the best way to go about creating this atmosphere of tension. In this manner, it succeeds.Devon B Super Reviewer
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Sep 03, 2012Music was quite creepy, make up was decent, but too many things were left unexplained. And the poster for the film was misleading.Sylvester K Super Reviewer
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Jul 16, 2012A descent 70's horror flick.Jacob P Super Reviewer
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Nov 21, 2011"Let's Scare Jessica to Death" certainly isn't the worst horror film I've seen, but it's among the dullest. It's also badly dated by the grainy image quality, terrible score (imagine a non-musician noodling with a synthesizer for the first time) and shaggy male actors. The positives? An interesting, introspective actress (Zohra Lambert) in the lead role and an unusually ambiguous story -- the events are not adequately explained and leave room for interpretation. Lambert portrays a mentally unstable woman seeking a restful getaway in the country, but it's unclear which of her fears are imagined and which reflect legitimate threats posed by the townspeople. Depending on your taste, this vagueness could be either provocative or frustrating.Eric B Super Reviewer
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