Saturday, October 7, 2017

The Spell (1977)


NBC
Directed by Lee Philips
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Blu-ray, Shout Factory)

Overweight teen conspires with her gym teacher to get revenge on taunting classmates. Her parents struggle to understand her, eventually deciding to just send her away to England. She lashes out at them, only to find an unexpected adversary. Other than a couple of scenes, this is mostly a family melodrama, featuring a young Helen Hunt as the "good" sister and Lee Grant as the tormented mom, a year before she played a similar character in Damien Omen II.

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