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Aug 27, 1971 · Let's Scare Jessica to Death: Directed by John D. Hancock. With Zohra Lampert, Barton Heyman, Kevin O'Connor, Gretchen Corbett. A recently institutionalized woman has bizarre experiences after moving into a supposedly haunted country farmhouse and fears she may be losing her sanity once again.
- (9.4K)
- Drama, Horror, Mystery
- John D. Hancock
- 1971-08-27
Let's Scare Jessica to Death is a 1971 American horror film co-written and directed by John Hancock in his directorial debut, and starring Zohra Lampert, Barton Heyman, Kevin O'Connor, Gretchen Corbett, and Mariclare Costello.
A recently institutionalized woman has bizarre experiences after moving into a supposedly haunted country farmhouse and fears she may be losing her sanity once again. 793 IMDb 6.4 1 h 28 min 1971. PG-13. Horror · Drama · Anxious · Dreamlike. Available to rent or buy.
- 88 min
- Let’s Scare Jessica To Death began as a comedy titled It Drinks Hippie Blood. The artful and elegiac Let’s Scare Jessica to Death was originally conceived by writer Lee Kalcheim as an over-the-top horror-comedy called It Drinks Hippie Blood, about a lake monster that preys on counterculture youth and meets its end on the sharpened point of a pole bearing an American flag.
- Let’s Scare Jessica To Death's Mariclare Costello hid in a car when it came time to film one scene. One of the standout performances in Let’s Scare Jessica to Death is delivered by Mariclare Costello as Emily, the possibly vampiric woman who terrorizes the film’s heroine, seemingly kills her companions, and murders the mole Jessica finds in the local cemetery and brings home to keep as a pet.
- One of Let’s Scare Jessica To Death’s most famous—and unnerving—visuals was created in a motel swimming pool. With a 26-day shoot and a budget of only $250,000, Hancock and his crew didn’t have the luxury of elaborate special effects.
- Let’s Scare Jessica To Death was one of the first horror movies to prominently feature synth music in its score. While composers such as John Carpenter, Alan Howarth, and Italian prog-rockers Goblin would make synthesizer scores a staple of horror cinema in the late ’70s and ’80s, electronic music was a rarity in the genre when Orville Stoeber was scoring Let’s Scare Jessica to Death.
Newly released from a mental ward, Jessica (Zohra Lampert) hopes to return to life the way it was before her nervous breakdown. But when Jessica moves to a country house with her husband...
- (11)
- John D. Hancock
- PG-13
- Zohra Lampert, Barton Heyman, Kevin O'connor
Creepy movie that never gets old! The lurid title could easily side-track you from what is essentially an extremely frightening exploration of a woman's descent into madness. You can read it,...
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