Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

Have you ever been curious about what defines quintessential horror from the paradigm-shifting motion picture era of the early 1970's. Watch the '71 low budget trip flick "Let's Scare Jessica to Death" and you needn't wonder any longer.Sparse funding does not a feeble film make in this case. The acting is actually okay, with Zohra Lampert as the deeply troubled title character faring the best here. Her embodiment of a fragile former mental patient petrified that she's losing it all over again is both challenging and poignant.There are a lot of paths this super weird story appears to be leading us down at various points in the movie. The way it all ends up may leave you joining me in asking this clarifying question regarding the ominous title, "Are we talkin' corpse or killer?"No, that's NOT a spoiler.

If you can ignore the basic and sometimes crappy production values, you can expect a surprising good movie. This is a B movie after it shows in some of the dialogue. Don't let that distract you.At times very slow moving and some would say quite boring to the point where a lot of people would turn it off.......DON'T. The last 30 minutes of so makes up for the whole movie and for me made it worth watching to the end.Really good performances from Zohra Lampert and Mariclare Costello, neither of whom I had never heard of until I watched this. The rest of the actors are a bit wooden, but that could easily be blamed on the script and dialogue.The really great thing about this movie is that the ending is completely open to interpretation. Did it all happen or was it all the imagination of a really messed up mind?If you don't mind old movies with low production values this is one worth watching.An easy 7/10 for me, well worth the 90 minutes.

Let's Scare Jessica to Death is a unique and atmospheric film. The representation of time and place and the unusual blend of haunting ghost/vampire and "am I crazy?" themes make it a true original.Even when I first saw it I thought it sagged a bit in the second half...but I've never forgotten it. It's really one of the most poetic horror films I've ever seen. Is it about ghosts or vampires? It never really explains itself but it winds up being an original, less literal take on the vampire. It seems people who see the high ratings and expect a major scary ghost story are a bit perplexed. But if you love subtle ghost stories or the regional flavor that was unique to some 70's films you may enjoy "Let's scare Jessica to Death". It's certainly one of a kind.

It is so heartening to come here and see all the fantastic reviews for a film I have been talking about my whole life. I was shocked to come to it again as an adult and nothing had faded for me- the atmosphere, that sense of disquiet, all were completely intact. It is not a perfect film, but coming upon this in your normal diet of bad slasher films, it shines as if it were "Citizen Kane". In fact, I would say that "Jessica" deserves to be known as the "Citizen Kane" of B-grade horror films- and I only call it B grade as a knee-jerk reaction to its lack of cult status. It truly deserves at least an A-. Zohra Lampert in particular blows you away by her complex depiction- she makes everyone around her a little more wooden in comparison. See it- own it- spread the word.