While I was too young to see this one in a theater during its initial run, I do recall the poster giving me the creeps whenever I saw it in a subway station back then. When it turned up on TV a few years later as an ABC Sunday Night Movie, I can recall watching it and being to scared to stick around for the ending, but not being able to move from my spot in front of the TV. I don’t recall whether or not I slept that night, but I think I was not good for much for a few days afterward.

Anyway, this severely underrated 1971 horror flick is worth tracking down for anyone who has a thing for slow burners with a tense psychological edge and two actresses that give excellent performances in a taught genre sleeper that absolutely deserves a great deal more respect these days…
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