I want to start by saying I love 70s Made-For-TV horror films. Since I was born in 1975, I didn't get to see all these cool movies until much later in life. Some are fairly easy to come by, while a lot more are not so easy to find and have become quite rare, which is a shame because they don't make TV movies like that anymore.
After some digging around, I finally managed to get myself a copy of this early Steven Spielberg supernatural thriller. Being a fan of Mr. Spielberg and having already watched some of his earlier works, such as DUEL, JAWS, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND, and his NIGHT GALLERY segments, I must say that I was expecting better. Not that this is a bad movie, because it's not. And I certainly don't regret the time spent watching it, which was only 73 minutes - so it has a good pace to it and never gets bogged down with any boring filler like so many films of this nature tend to do.
While I can see how it could have been a bit scary back in 1972 when it was aired, it just doesn't hold up so well in that department nowadays. Still, the acting is good and the sound of the baby crying is effective. Overall this is a decent, early 70s Made-For-TV supernatural thriller. A solid 6 in my view.
After some digging around, I finally managed to get myself a copy of this early Steven Spielberg supernatural thriller. Being a fan of Mr. Spielberg and having already watched some of his earlier works, such as DUEL, JAWS, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND, and his NIGHT GALLERY segments, I must say that I was expecting better. Not that this is a bad movie, because it's not. And I certainly don't regret the time spent watching it, which was only 73 minutes - so it has a good pace to it and never gets bogged down with any boring filler like so many films of this nature tend to do.
While I can see how it could have been a bit scary back in 1972 when it was aired, it just doesn't hold up so well in that department nowadays. Still, the acting is good and the sound of the baby crying is effective. Overall this is a decent, early 70s Made-For-TV supernatural thriller. A solid 6 in my view.