Burnt Offerings. 1976.
Oliver Reed and Karen Black play the happyncouple with 12 year old son Lee Montgomery who rent a house from Eileen Heckart and Burgess Meredith, unaware that there is a dark side to the house itself.
This is one of those films that gives off a scent of being a haunted house scenario, a big house in the middle of the country, victorian set era, creepy owners then gives out a nice little curve ball. Karen Black's slow decent into madness and obssession is played out well by decent acting and directing. Oliver Reed's character was very interesting. He was the reasonable one who instinctively knew something was "off" about the house. His scene with his son Danny in the pool was very scary as he seems happy then the mood changes. Bette Davis does pop up but her character is doesn't seem to be a major character and she does have a strong on screen presence and kudos to the make up dept for when her character seems to age dramatically. One film that has certainly grown on me big time.
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