Freaktana A Major Disappointment

Merolliv I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

Clarissa Mora The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Blake Rivera If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

Aaron1375 Watched this movie not expecting much and it delivered as this film was slow, dark and very predictable. How the main character failed to see what was going on considering he is the one who started it is beyond me. The film is about a man married to a woman named Dominique. She seems a very unstable woman at the beginning of the film and she believes that what is actually happening is her husband is driving her mad! Well there are really no scenes really depicting the main character played by Cliff Robertson is doing anything until after the funeral and he flashes a wry smile while alone in his study. Well strange things begin to happen around the house, indicating that his now deceased wife whom hung herself may actually be alive and well or a ghost. Or it could be an elaborate trap to take him out of the picture and if you guessed this you guessed correctly and you in all likelihood will figure who is behind it all. Even the ending is not really surprising, seriously find a better way to leave the girl that apparently loves you to death. No, this film was very plodding and not all that entertaining unless your idea of a good film is a man stumbling about his house seeing woman who look like his ex wife walking around. Then walking some more, getting a drink and lighting up a cigarette or two. No, just fails as a horror film and a suspense thriller, but it does do a good job of filming with minimal lighting.

dbborroughs Back in the early days of home video the trailer for this film seemed to appear on the front of every video tape my family watched, so much so that if anyone says the name Dominque, everyone automatically says "Dominique? Dominique is Dead". the film itself is an okay thriller which concerns a man out for money and the wife who dies and then comes back to haunt him. The film is well made by Michael Andersen who had a long career and turned out films like Orca, Shake Hands with the Devil, The Quiller Memorandum and Logan's Run. The cast which is headed by Cliff Robertson is first rate and it helps to sell the script which is more than just a little clichéd (Frankly if you can't guess where this is going you haven't seen many movies). Its an unremarkable but enjoyable distraction, worth picking up if you should see it in the 99 cent rack.

sol **SPOILERS** Cliff Robertson looks like he just walked on the set without knowing what the movie's all about and without a script to cue him in this vary slow and and dark,the movie makers must have saved a mint on the low electricity bill, Ghost/Suspense/Thriller "Dominique is Dead". Stock-broker David Ballard, Cliff Robertson, is on the verge of going bankrupt in his stock picking and investing business and needs loads of ready cash fast to avoid it. With David's wife Dominique, Jean Simmons, in control of the family fortune he has to work fast to either drive her insane or to suicide in order to inherit her estate and rigs up all kinds of gimmicks to do it. After a while Dominique is totally unsure if she's losing her mind or if what she's been seeing and hearing in the dead of night are real. Before you know it David finds her hanging in the greenhouse dead, an obvious suicide. Things now seem to look up for the scheming and maniacal David with Dominique's dead and him to be the one to get his hands on her money, and keep his stock business from going under, but instead the exact opposite begins to happen. Strange sounds in the night with the piano playing Dominique's favorite musical piece all by itself and even Dominique herself appearing out of nowhere and haunting David driving him out of his mind like he did to her. David really gets shaken up when he's called by the cemetery manager where Dominique is buried to find his own headstone next to her's stating that he'll be joining her very soon. At his office David sees this women in black outside in the street watching him, the same woman that was supposed to have paid for his headstone, all hours of the day. The man completely freaks out when later there's an inscription carved on his headstone born. June 14, 1931 and died. October 25, 1977 which is just a few days hence! Going to the cemetery and digging up Dominique's coffin with his faithful limo-driver Tony Calvert, Simon Ward, both David and Tony are shocked to find the coffin empty! Is Dominique dead or is she really alive? Later having Dominique officially exhumed it's found to the shock of David and Tony that her body is really there! what did Dominique do? go back in her grave after David and Tony dug it up? David gets so crazy that he starts to accuse his housemaid old Mrs. Davis, Flora Robson, of being behind all these ghostly incidents that's appearing to him which makes her leave the mansion in both fear and disgust. With Dominique popping up every night and spooking him has David empty a fully loaded handgun on her only to find, later with Tony,that the bullets not only went through her but ended up embedded in the walls and door of the house! Now totally insane David is driven to the edge of a balcony of his house and falls to his death in the greenhouse; the very place where Dominique's body was found on the early morning of October 25, 1977! the date of his death inscribed on his tombstone. With Dominique's last Will & Testament read by her lawyer at the end of the movie we get an idea to who was behind this scam to drive David to his death like he did to Dominique. We have to sit through another ten minutes or so for the culprits to reveal themselves and at the same time fall out by double-crossing each other. Overlong and at times boring "Dominique is Dead" should have ended some ten minutes earlier leaving the audience up in the air to what really was behind all the strange and unexplained happening in the movie. By awkwardly trying to explain them, very unconvincingly, away the film muddled the plot even more and just self-destructed like the tape-recorder in the TV series "Mission Impossible".

Smalling-2 A wealthy wife is convinced that his equally wealthy husband tries to drive her mad by scary voices and haunting portents at their country mansion. After her sudden death, she seems to return to haunt the husband.Predictable and fairly restricted all-star suspense shocker on the lines of "Les Diaboliques" with very occasional moments of "frisson".