Monday, October 10, 2011

The Screaming Woman (1972)


ABC Movie of the Week
Directed by Jack Smight
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
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Olivia de Havilland is an aging woman out for a horse and carriage ride one day when she thinks she hears a voice crying for help. She discovers a woman buried under an abandoned shack, neck deep in dirt. Unfortunately Olivia was just released from a mental hospital, so spends the rest of the movie trying to convince people she really saw the woman and to help dig her out. Eventually she ends up at the house of the man responsible, leading to a tense showdown. A couple of good scare moments at the beginning and end, but spends far too much time on the boring relationship between her son and his wife who constantly bicker. Based on a Ray Bradbury short story.

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