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Oct 30, 2020 · Set amid the familiar, gritty grounds of a backwoods thriller, “Spell” attempts to summon the terrors of “The Hills Have Eyes” in a “Misery” package, with little jolt and even less cinematic elegance to go around.
- The Hills Have Eyes
It always begins with the Wrong Gas Station. In real life,...
- Misery
Stephen King has a modest but undeniable genius for being...
- The Hills Have Eyes
Feb 12, 2022 · Film review – The Spell (1977) My notes on The Spell (1977) Plainly an attempt to do a sanitised-for-prime-time take on Carrie, this opens with a trauma/revenge scene in a high school gym rather than the showers (it involves rope-climbing and the skinny blonde bully doesn’t survive), then deals with a lumpy, sullen schoolgirl who develops ...
The Spell 1977 1h 18m Horror List Reviews 25% Audience Score 100+ Ratings A distraught mother must cope with her embittered daughter who has the ability to cause "accidents" to happen.
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- Lee Philips
- Horror
- Lee Grant
THE SPELL is a straight-up TV movie rip-off of CARRIE, albeit made on a smaller scale and lower budget and without the genius of Brian De Palma at the helm. Rita is an ordinary teenage high school pupil who gets bullied by her peers for being overweight (which she isn't, of course).
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A teenaged girl, taunted by her schoolmates because she's overweight, uses her supernatural powers to take revenge.