Let's Scare Jessica to Death Movie Information

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Overall Rank: 18982

Average Rating: 2.2/4

# of Ratings: 12

Theatrical Release Date: 08/06/1971

Language: English

Genre: Horror, Mystery

MPAA Rating: PG-13

Director: John D. Hancock

Actors: Zohra Lampert, Barton Heyman, Kevin O'Connor, Gretchen Corbett, Alan Manson, Mariclare Costello

Plot: A woman recently released from a mental institution moves to an old New England farmhouse with her husband and a friend. When she starts having strange encounters is it another mental break or something more sinister. -- Chris Kavan

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Let's Scare Jessica to Death - a review

Mr. E Horror - wrote on 08/25/2009

This movie, released very limitedly in 1971 is still quite unknown by most. Those that have taken the time and effort to hunt down a copy of this film will agree that those who haven’t, should. Incredibly eerie, the audience is asked to decide whether the characters are intentionally trying to drive poor Jessica crazy–not a hard task since she is fresh from institution–or whether the characters and the rest of the small town that they inhabit are actually dead, zombies of a sort, I suppose. It really isn’t important which scenario you choose, the real joy of watching Jessica is the strange ride you must take to get to the end. It has a very eerie American Gothic-esque small town flavor that more than hints at some sort of perversion underneath the down-homey facade. This …

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