Friday, October 22, 2010

The Possessed (1977)


Directed by Jerry Thorpe
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Warner Archive Collection)

An all-girl's school is having problems with spontaneous combustion. The police can't figure it out, so they call on an ex-priest. His back story is shown at the beginning of this made-for-TV movie, where he comes off looking like some kind of religious superhero assigned by God to seek out and destroy "evil". He arrives at the school and asks some obvious questions that the police seemed to overlook. Joan Hackett is the head mistress and Harrison Ford is the Biology teacher. Ann Dusenberry is the cute student around which the evil seems to revolve. The ending features Hackett doing her best Linda Blair impersonation, spewing liquids and nails at the hapless priest.

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