Except that it's hard to get past the fact this movie, the book it is based on, and the movie series it spawned are all the products of loons and their lawyers (slash literary agents, apparently) cashing in on a real-life case of family massacre by paranormalising the events and the killer's motives, this 1979 classic is effective, understated horror - there's restraint; the object isn't simply to bombard with special effects and jump scares - and on offer is a lot of Margot Kidder, James Brolin dagging around in his y-fronts, some creepy scenes involving flies and black goop, and other scenes that beg the interesting question, "Who copied who - Stephen King and/or Stanley Kubrick from The Shining camp, or Anson and/or Rosenberg from the Amityville camp?
★★★☆☆
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