i must have seen a different film!!

Good start, but then it gets ruined

The movie is wildly uneven but lively and timely - in its own surreal way

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

I can say this is scary and suspenseful in its own slow moving way. But too many points in the plot just don't make any sense. Louise pretends her husband didn't die and was thrown to the bottom of the pond just to claim an inheritance from her mother in law, but she is very much alive and not planning to check out soon. Louise also swims and dives in the pond at night with some dolls to leave where Kathleen drowned, but why? The family doctor gets suspicious and drains the pond to see if Kathleen really drowned there. But only the shrine is discovered. Kathleen's body isn't there, but why didn't they find Louise's husband John? It's too bad we don't have message boards to get answers about parts of weird movies like these that don't make sense. The real killer is given away with hints, but finding out is a surprise. I would have thought revealing Louise's husband as the murderer would be more scary and surprising. Maybe he didn't really die or his ghost came back. But that might have been one of the ideas people could be bluffed into thinking to watch the whole movie until the end.

Not sure why the lead main female characters looked almost exactly alike with hair and facial features. Gratuitous flesh and gore and the most annoying score to further make me finely tuned to the time left remaining on the screen. Was very excited to see such a famous directors first efforts like I experienced with Scorcese's "Who's That Knocking...", whose glorious effort had many themes and not trying to outdo a home movie effect.This trash was just some compendium of shlock and how he graduated to Godfather status is beyond me. I even hate to think he was responsible for the drivel dialogue and confusing cuts.High recommend for Coppola at 22 and who cares what the budget was, remember "Blair Witch Project"? Beyond amateur boogey man.

The movie is better than what some of the critics have to say about it. The film is definitely dark, creepy and demented. The morbidity is vivid in this overall dreary setting and story.Which one is the killer? This is the question on the film's poster. It's fun to play a guessing game when watching this movie. Hint: everyone is a bit off their rocker in this movie but there is only one killer. The flick is worth watching to find out the answer if you like mystery-horror stories.This is good "dark and stormy night" type of movie! You will not want to miss anything in this film so have everything ready before you start the film.8.5/10

John and his wife Louise Haloran (Luana Anders) have an unpleasant time together rowing a boat. He dies of a heart attack and she dumps his body in the water. She stands to lose everything because of his and his mother's Wills. So she tells everybody that he's away on a business trip. She must take care of his mother-in-law before she dies leaving everything to a charity for her daughter Kathleen dead for 7 years. Louise fakes an invite to the annual family remembrance for Kathleen.The plot is confusing. The motivation of Louise is barely decipherable. The movie is a bit of a mess. It's disappointing considering that it is both written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola in one of his earlier efforts. Although one must remember that this is a Roger Corman production. He's even copying Psycho in killing off the blonde female lead halfway through the movie. There is an attempt at spooky atmosphere with filming in and around an English manor. It never builds anything close to that. It's mostly a low-budget boring ax-murdering slasher horror. The kills aren't scary but there is some blood-splattering head-rolling fun.