Great movie and great acting

Yep, the kid was an annoying baby, but it was because he was so scared of everything going on. A great creepy film for sure.

Yes, this is without a doubt my favorite horror film of all time. Everything about it is great from the story to the acting, characters, music, and scenery. I just love this movie in every way.

I agree the actors were fantastic.

They really put across that this was a warm, loving and happy family. From the wacky aunt to the gruff husband, wife with social aspirations and the awkward kid, they were a believable and charming group. Which made what happened to them all the more horrific.

I just saw this movie on Turner Movie Classics and I have to agree that this movie seems like an overlooked gem. It is a very crafty combination of realistic people and a supermatural horror. Usually these things conflict each other causing awkward movies but here it seems to have been combined and resulted something believable.

I am very desensitized to horror films due to having watched so many, but this film genuinely scared me. Maybe because there is no actual graphic gore but rather extremely creepy situations and implied horror about how people are being taken over by some kind of dark powers. I sat "people" because even though the wife, Marian, was the main possession victim, the husband, Ben is also seeing things that pressure him to behave in the way he does.

Also it's possible that this movie is so creepy because you can watch it and still not be sure if it's something only psychological happening to the family or whether it is some ghosts like it most likely implies. If you saw a situation like this in life, you'd not know what to think.

The Marian character is so scary cause she is so effectively passive aggressive and the husband who seems to appear strong and assertive at first , is pretty much reduced into depressed husk.

Would be nice if this were put to bluray too. It seems the quality I saw on an HD channel is like that of a VHS or a DVD.

Yep, I love this film and watch it every October. Everyone turns in such good performances. The kid did annoy me. Kids in films always do, though.

I just watched it for my first time, I was 3 when it came out and never did see it (which I'm surprised about) when I was older in the 80's. I started to watch a lot of scary movies during that time period but some how missed this one. I thought it creepy today but not really scary, Karen Black looked incredibly sexy though. My only complaint was what happened to the kid at the end, he just stood there and didn't try to move. To be honest he had plenty of time and space to just run out of the way. But oh well it's a movie.

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