Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

UnowPriceless hyped garbage

FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

tamstrat Somehow I missed this movie when it was seen on TV back in 1982 (I had a small toddler then, was working full time and didn't have a lot of time for TV watching then). I was a huge fan back in the 70's of the Movie of the week, especially loving the scary ones such as "Satan's School for Girls", etc. This little gem was right up there with the best of them.Dennis Weaver and Valerie Harper play parents who lost their eldest daughter in a car accident. Relocating to a new house, weird things start to happen. Mary, their surviving daughter begins to see her dead older sister, Jennifer, who encourages Mary to start killing off the surviving family. One by one, they all start dying by weird means.The writing and acting are all top notch, Weaver and Harper play their roles as the guilt ridden parents with pathos. The acting is superb! There are some effectively creepy scenes, as others have noted, the pizza cutter scene is particularly eerie and effective. I love movies that convey fear and suspense without gore and this movie delivers.I watched this on YouTube, evidently it has not been released on DVD, which is a shame. So many of the old, eerie Movie of the Week movies have not been released on DVD and it's a damn shame.

carey6567 I watched this film with my girlfriend, thinking it would be really exciting and scary after reading all the positive reviews on here. After sitting though this for 90 minutes, it turned out to be a real dull experience for both of us. I really wanted to like the film but I just couldn't. The film lacked any real eeriness or shocking scenes. The house was not creepy to create an environment of fear and all the attempts at any chills or horror where all standard stuff. Dennis Weaver played the husband and father to his wife and children, his character came across as a weak and pathetic individual who was unable to take charge or do anything except winge and whine like a girl and drink alcohol. He wasn't the take charge kind of Father of Husband. He reminded me of his Character "David Mann" in his most famous film "Duel" as a weak businessman that was having marital problems and being stalked by a truck on the road. He could not carry this film or get me interested in caring for his character.The scene with the giant green lizard was hilarious and just stupid; you could see this thing travelling through the house with the camera behind it, being carried to a bedroom by someone and then crawling on a bed with silly terrifying music in a bid to build up the scene. It is then seen slowly crawling under the covers with its webbed feet on the sleeping grandma's pyjamas and crawls up to her neck. Oh my goodness, it gives her a heart attack and next thing we see her in a stretcher! The psychiatrist scenes are flat and uninteresting. Robert Webber is very wooden with his acting and seems very miscast and the script lacks any clever psychological mind games between the sister and psychiatrist. The film plods along with various cast members being killed and hurt in accidents. All scenes are very standard and nothing is scary. The final scene that everyone seems to think is terrifying is just a joke! Shiver me timbers what was that! A 10 second scene with an apparition appearing in a bedroom and then the credits start rolling, if you're under 10 years old you might have been shivering with fear but not as an adult. Stay away from this one!

adkins_taylor1 watch-movies-online.TV has a copy of this movie. It is amazingly done especially for its time and TV-movie status. I first saw this movie when I was 7 or 8 years old and all I remembered was bits and pieces. I have looked and looked for a way to find even the title to this movie. I talked to movie buffs and finally entered the correct key words into google search and found a summary that fit my memory. I then began looking for a copy of this movie, and though it definitely should have been, it wasn't released on video. today a friend introduced me to the website above and for giggles and hahas I looked to see if it had this movie. It did and after watching it again, I found that it was not just my age that made this movie scary. It is a genuine suspense/thriller.

David_Habert During the early 80s, I stumbled on this movie purely by accident. (I'm glad I did) I don't usually find many movies that "scare" me, but there are exceptions "In Possession", "The Grudge" (Japanese version), "Ghostwatch" and finally "Don't go to sleep".The story centres on a family who a year before has a car accident as the father has had one too many drinks and their eldest daughter gets killed due to a prank done on her by her younger siblings. The family move in with their grandmother so they can look after her. (Played by Ruth Gordon)She then later comes back as a ghost and haunts the younger sister who after a while becomes friends when Jennifer the older sister reveals herself to her, but this friendship becomes sinister when the sisters (mostly Jennifer who is out for revenge) decides to kill off other members of their family. The grandmother gets killed when the brother puts his pet Lizard under her sheets, scaring her to death. The second member is the brother (played by Oliver Robins from Poltergeist), he gets killed when he is trying to retrieve a Frisbee which gets stuck on the roof of the house, while he is climbing on the roof gets knocked off when an invisible force opens the window. The third member who gets killed is the father, (played by Dennis Weaver) while he is taking a bath and a radio falls into it.Later on, because the younger sister is labelled mentally unstable, she is sent to a lunatic asylum and Jennifer leaves her behind. Later on while her mother is sleeping, (played by Valerie Harper) Jennifer appears in front with a very evil grin on her face. When her mother screams, the movie ends.Although this was a very low budget TV movie, the storyline is the main theme which makes this film creepy and very scary. Don't underestimate it, although very similar to "The Grudge". "The Grudge" concentrated more on special effects in order to make it scary. Don't go to sleep concentrated more on the story. This is a brilliant ghost story and I recommend you see it.I must congratulate the entire cast and the director and I wish ABC would release it because it is very rare movie to find and if you do find a copy, you're extremely lucky.