Take a bit of Gaslight and a shred of Diabolique and you might have some idea what you're getting yourself into with Dominique - a well made and, at times, painfully tedious chiller that never really rises to the occasion.
You have a wealthy woman named, you guessed it, Dominique who recently had an accident and is having trouble getting back to normal. She believes her home is haunted and everyone around her thinks she's just being silly. Things heat up a bit when Dominique is found having, apparently, committed suicide, but what happens when her body disappears from the grave? Is she out for revenge?
Dominique at least has a stellar cast between Jean Simmons, Jenny Agutter, Cliff Robertson and many other well known faces. There's also a good deal of atmosphere and mood, but there aren't many scares or genuinely thrilling moments mainly because it's hard to care about most of the characters. One immediately suspects Robertson's husband character of foul play from the start, so making him the center of the film without humanizing him seems like a major mistake.
You have a wealthy woman named, you guessed it, Dominique who recently had an accident and is having trouble getting back to normal. She believes her home is haunted and everyone around her thinks she's just being silly. Things heat up a bit when Dominique is found having, apparently, committed suicide, but what happens when her body disappears from the grave? Is she out for revenge?
Dominique at least has a stellar cast between Jean Simmons, Jenny Agutter, Cliff Robertson and many other well known faces. There's also a good deal of atmosphere and mood, but there aren't many scares or genuinely thrilling moments mainly because it's hard to care about most of the characters. One immediately suspects Robertson's husband character of foul play from the start, so making him the center of the film without humanizing him seems like a major mistake.