Jessica(Zohra Lampert),her husband and their friend start a new life in the country,but Jessica,who has a history off mental illness,starts to believe the area is haunted and grows suspicious of the young woman who has joined them at their house..."Let's Scare Jessica to Death" is an excellent low-budget horror film loaded with eerie atmosphere of rising paranoia.Zohra Lampert does a terrific job showing us Jessica's growing desperation and there are some fairly gruesome gore effects at the end.The photography is gritty and the climax is extremely haunting.The viewer is never sure whether Jessica is really onto something sinister,or whether she's just going insane.There are some subtle touches of eeriness:Jessica's husband drives a hearse,and she decorates their new home with tracings she made from a local cemetery.So if you are a fan of old-fashioned spooky horror films give this overlooked gem a look.9 out of 10.
Let's Scare Jessica to Death
1971
Action / Drama / Horror / Mystery
Let's Scare Jessica to Death
1971
Action / Drama / Horror / Mystery
Keywords: paranoiadrowninginsane asylum
Plot summary
After a stint in a psychiatric facility Jessica, her husband and a friend move to remote farm they have recently purchased. There they find a young woman by the name of Emily living in the house and they invite her to stay. When Jessica goes for a swim in the lake, she sees a body just below the water's surface. When they go into the village to sell some old furniture, they learn that a woman by the name of Abigail Bishop drowned in the lake and her body was never found. Local folklore has that Abigail is now a vampire roaming the countryside. A mute blond girl leads her to the body of a dead man but the body is not there when Jessica goes for help. Jessica and those around begin to wonder if she is losing her mind.
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Very creepy horror gem.
Creepy Psychological Thriller
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.
spooky
Jessica has just been released from a psychiatric institution but she continues to have hallucinations. She, her husband Duncan, and their friend Woody move to a farm in the country. They find Emily living there. She assumed that the house was abandoned and they happily let her stay. The locals tell of the legend of Abigail Bishop who drowned in the nearby lake and still roams in the woods as a vampire. Jessica's visions get more disturbing.
I love the woodsie atmosphere. The indie style gives it the feel of a ghost story. The acting is functional for unknowns. Maybe they could have given more time to interacting with the locals. This film is more spooky than scary. The story needs more. It's a bit surreal but it could be Kafkaesque. This is a fine indie although it could be more horrific.