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Pretty Good

Admirable film.

The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

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.

Slow burners can really be good but a formula for success they are not at least not for me. I think Zohra Lampert did a good job playing Jessica, a young woman recently released from a mental hospital trying to pick up her life again with her husband Duncan and friend of the family Woody. they move into a house on the countryside where they meet up with Emily, who had broken into the house. But Jessica feels sorry for this young girl who seemingly has no place else to go, so Emily can stay as long as she desires. So the townspeople are quite weird, Emily gets manipulative over the newbies and Jessica hears voices in her head. She also sees things that others don't but still she tries her best that nothing is wrong. If not for her good screenplay I would have rated this movie even lower. The other characters including Emily are just not interesting nor is the storyline any exciting and pretty predictable at that. The finale is really disappointing. Not a fan of vampires but this must be one of the lamest vampire movies I have seen.

Creepy perhaps but no real scares are to be had in director John D. Hancock's film. Neurotic Zohra Lampert is released from a mental hospital and takes up residence in an old manor house (where, of course, some untoward shenanigans took place). She starts hearing voices, seeing ghosts and a rather insistent dead woman in a lake. Lampert is fine and Mariclare Costello is terrific as Emily, who's not really as nice as she seems. Hancock's direction is OK, but he doesn't seem to realize that he's making a horror movie; the film is so inert it's boring. There are odd touches here and there (Lampert's mode of transportation is a hearse) and some fine production values, but they're all for naught. Without scares, it's hard to recommend a supposed horror film.

This was a disappointment. I found this movie when I was looking for "haunted house" movies, but LSJTD does not follow that classic, well tried-out formula at all. It is not scary in the "good and pure" way, that makes you shiver with fear and delight mixed. Instead it is scary in a black, unpleasant, disturbing way. You feel so sorry for Jessica, the vulnerable main character, and afterwards you feel depressed.What made me most disturbed, was in fact not the supernatural part of it, which felt mostly silly. But the adultery aspect. Because there are a lot of women like Emily in reality, without them being vampires in the literal sense of the word. Bad morals and no conscience about stealing someone else's husband, is enough for them to bring great havoc to everybody, and destroy another woman's life for ever...What more is there to say about LSJTD..? Maybe that it was very "seventish", complete with the "green wave", and long-haired women in floating dresses and unruly-haired men... the 70:s was a hairy period! :-) All-in-all this movie was a little clumsily made. A little amateurish. I am not impressed!