Admirable film.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

Was sad to hear that Carrie Snodgress passed away. While waiting for a liver transplant. Wonder if she had a drinking problem like Louise. Anyways, that sucks. I loved her in "The Attic." I was kinda hoping for a remake of The Attic. Alot of people did not like this movie, but I thought it was great. Ray Milland and Carrie were great. Gotta love Dickey! But it is what it is...rest in peace Carrie!

This was an okay movie. It was boring in instances that I had to watch this movie for a third time because I had fell asleep on it for the first two times. It is not that really scary at all, but it is an average film that is watchable.

THE ATTIC starts off well. The somewhat dreary story is helped greatly by the two main actors and there's a semblance of a character study going on here but the film goes downhill fast when Carrie Snodgress' character buys a monkey. Not one of those cute little monkeys. She buys a real big chimpanzee!!!This sudden plot device basically kills the movie. It's just not conceivable for a woman like the one Snodgress plays, who has a hard time doing anything because of her domineering father, for her to, out of the blue, buy a chimpanzee. I mean, come on! Forget about it!

and just about everyone else who posted. i was bored off my a**!!!now i'm a MAJOR "b" horror fan and i love thrillers and 60s phycho-thrillers (and this tripe tries to do all three genres) but this was truly awful. now, if I say it's awful... you KNOW it's gotta be bad. i even gave it three (yes three) tries and i still have not finished all the way through - i keep dozing off!i got this on a double dvd with crawlspace (1986 w/ that wonderful madman klaus kinski!!) and THAT was worth the 7 bucks i paid. sad to say that although ray miland was wonderfully disturbing as the nasty, selfish father, the attic will probably never get played again...