![]() ![]() Montgomery), relocate from the city to a rundown 19th-century mansion for a few months in the summer. The Rolf family, writer Ben (Oliver Reed), his wife Marian (Karen Black), and their 12-year-old son Davey (Lee H. ![]() The film was originally announced as a project for Bob Fosse, from a screenplay by Robert Marasco in December 1969, and when that fell through, Marasco adapted his script into a novel published in 1973. Curtis, the man who made the hugely popular Gothic soap opera Dark Shadows (1966-1971) and its big screen spin offs House of Dark Shadows (1970) and Night of Dark Shadows (1971) as well as many other fondly remembered small screen horrors, was never the most dynamic of directors and although Burnt Offerings has many memorable moments, he can’t sustain his studiously methodical approach to the story over an overlong 116 minutes. ![]() There’s the germ of a fascinating idea at work in Dan Curtis’ hard-to-categorise Burnt Offerings, an idea that isn’t really done justice by the execution, but which remains intriguing and very watchable nonetheless. ![]()
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