Karen Black portrays a staid, schoolmarmish matron who inexplicably lives a double life as a wild party girl. Is it a case of possession or schizophrenic split personality? The horror content is mostly in a recurring dream where she sees herself lying in a coffin being accorded pre-burial rites at a funeral home. A haunting but strangely familiar tune is being played on the organ. You'll never guess what the tune is and I assure you that while it sounds appropriately funereal on a slow tempo on the organ, it was a very popular teeny bop song in the 50s. Spoiler ahead: You'll find out what the song is when the other personality takes over and dances to the tune at a pub/pick-up joint. I loved that song but it was never the same for me after seeing this TV movie as I began associating it with death.
A chill sense of terror fills you when Black is confronted by the mother of the dead girl she is allegedly impersonating.
It is both a horror and psycho thriller movie. Well done by fantasy and sci-fi screenplaywright Richard Matheson who has done a lot of work for Twillight Zone and Star Trek.
If you liked this movie you should also watch Ray Milland in A Premature Burial or Vincent Price in The Tomb of Lygeia.
A chill sense of terror fills you when Black is confronted by the mother of the dead girl she is allegedly impersonating.
It is both a horror and psycho thriller movie. Well done by fantasy and sci-fi screenplaywright Richard Matheson who has done a lot of work for Twillight Zone and Star Trek.
If you liked this movie you should also watch Ray Milland in A Premature Burial or Vincent Price in The Tomb of Lygeia.