Sometimes a movie takes a great concept and an excellent script and is then superbly executed by a top class director and a cast at the top of their game.
This is not that movie.
Milland and Van Ark are watchable without pushing up the dial. Elliott is unrecognisable but also rather lost amongst the malaise that this script provides.
Dialogue (across the whole cast) is stilted and a little call/response in delivery.
The action is awkward, the victims are desperately trying to "sell" their deaths.
The best part of the movie is the unrelenting animal chatter in the soundtrack, which does a good job of setting the tone for why the family wants rid of these infernal creatures.
Nothing in the movie, though, gives any hint as to how they got such a talented cast to sign on the dotted line.
One of "cult horror movies" that I guess I just don't get.
This is not that movie.
Milland and Van Ark are watchable without pushing up the dial. Elliott is unrecognisable but also rather lost amongst the malaise that this script provides.
Dialogue (across the whole cast) is stilted and a little call/response in delivery.
The action is awkward, the victims are desperately trying to "sell" their deaths.
The best part of the movie is the unrelenting animal chatter in the soundtrack, which does a good job of setting the tone for why the family wants rid of these infernal creatures.
Nothing in the movie, though, gives any hint as to how they got such a talented cast to sign on the dotted line.
One of "cult horror movies" that I guess I just don't get.