In San Francisco, the schoolteacher Jane Hardy (Trish Van Devere) is stressed after a troubled divorce and decides to spend the summer in the house she had inherited from her aunt in Blackford. She drives to the town and, in a curve, a hearse in wrong way almost collides her car. She arrives late night and asks the lawyer, Walter Prichard (Joseph Cotten), to bring the keys of the house. Soon she is haunted by nightmares and learns that the residents, including Prichard, are not friendly with her. She befriends the son of the local hardware store, Paul Gordon (Perry Lang), who helps her to repair the house, and is visited by Reverend Winston (Donald Hotton). She discovers that her aunt belonged to a group of Satan's worshipers and was in love with a man named Robert. Further, the creepy driver of a black hearse is haunting her everywhere and one night, he throws her car off road. The well-educated local Tom Sullivan (David Gautreaux) helps her and gives a ride home. Soon they fall in love with each other, but she still has nightmares and is haunted by the hearse's driver.
"The Hearse" is an atmospheric horror tale with a good supernatural tale. The plot is flawed in many moments and there are characters that die, and the consequences are not shown. Did Jane's aunt make a pact with the devil? Why did Robert not stay with her in the afterlife? Why does her ghost still live in the house? My vote is six.
Title (Brazil): "O Carro Sinistro" ("The Sinister Car")
"The Hearse" is an atmospheric horror tale with a good supernatural tale. The plot is flawed in many moments and there are characters that die, and the consequences are not shown. Did Jane's aunt make a pact with the devil? Why did Robert not stay with her in the afterlife? Why does her ghost still live in the house? My vote is six.
Title (Brazil): "O Carro Sinistro" ("The Sinister Car")