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Summary: Scarrrrrrrrrrry - Still remember it after more than 20 years
Review: More than 20 years later I still remember the old lady at the attic who was never seen - and this is the scariest that unlike The Exorcist you don't see IT. Reading others' reviews however also brought back vaguely image of the Chauffeur - now I remember HIM - perhaps the scariest character ever invented in the history of horror movies. As I write this review I feel a certain chillness - is it the aircon or ........I am gald to know that there are many like me who watched this movie at an young age and could never forget its existence. And other boys were also haunted by the Chauffeur for months if not years.
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Summary: Visions of Childhood
Review: I am surprised at the number of people who remember this movie. I first saw this film when I was 8 years old. The Hearse driver was the most frightening character I had ever seen. I would have nightmares about him for years. I tried to find out as much information about Anthony James as possible. When I was 18 I rented the video with a few of my friends and we watched it about 3 or 4 times. I am glad to say I do not dream of him anymore. His character in the film was truly menacing.
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Summary: I Thought I was the ONLY one!
Review: This may seem selfish but I thought I was the only one who thought both this movie and that INCREDIBLY CREEPY Chauffer was scary as Hell. I saw this movie when I was 10 years old at the Lynbrook Theater on Merrick Road, LI. Back then it was a single gothic-old fashioned style movie house...perfect for this kind of movie. The scenes with the Chauffer have remained with me to this day especially when he comes up the stairs with the coffin! Oye..the images of him in black and white were startling. To this day, old houses both scare and intrigue me deeply. A very good TOTALLY underated movie.
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Summary: The most terrifying word.
Review: I checked the Webster's Dictionary International Edition and the right spelling for that terrifying word is CHAUFFEUR. Just for the record. Now, let's reminisce his pale, frightful and fiendish face.
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Summary: Scary, Scary, Scary
Review: I first saw this movie when I was about 8 years old, at about 10 o'clock on a Saturday night, noone else was home. I literally could not get out of the chair until someone came home. Who is Anthony James (chauffer)? - he died one year after burnt offerings was released. --- just kidding
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Summary: Moody, Haunting, Creepy
Review: Burnt Offerings offers a delicious retro-switch from the gorefest films of the last twenty years. There are no scenes of sliced and diced adolescents. There are no quick cuts to severed body parts. Instead the viewer gets a simple and solid narrative that builds visually and plotwise toward an inevitable (and perhaps anticipated) climax. But you don't care. Because on the journey you get some of the best horror scenes of the genre, done through creating tension and anxiety in the viewer, not by grossing us out with special effects. The scene with the chauffeur has been well remembered by all of us, and I also carry it with me. There are terrific actors bringing this all together. The death scene of Betty Davis made an impact on me as a teenager more than 20 years ago that speaks for itself with regard to a film's subtle power. Check it out.
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Summary: Almost as scary as the chauffer...
Review: ...are the amount of mis-spellings of the word CHAUFFER. Hell, now I'm not even sure I've spelled it right. I was amazed to find this many people who shared a common connection this particular image in this particular movie. I, like so many other reviewers, saw this movie in the theatre in the 70's, and carried the terrifying vision of the chauffer with me for so many years. A recent update occurred when I picked up a sound recording of Robert Marasco's novel at my local library. I listened to the book over the course of the last week, and while it didn't scare me as much as the movie (I already pretty much knew what was going to happen - and, I'm not 13 anymore), the scenes with the chauffer did succeed in sending shivers down my jaded, horrored-out, 37 year-old spine. The book was a really good read, incidently. My wife and I just moved into a new house, which is something of an older home, and I listen to books on my walkman early in the morning, while it's still dark, while I do laundry and other chores - in the basement! There were times when I had to turn off the tape, and save particular sections for broad daylight listening. What I noticed about the book was how it focused a little more than the movie on the transformation of Marion, the Karen Black character, as she becomes increasingly obsessed with the house and its evil presence. But, like the movie, you never really get to find out what the presence is. Its subtlety is what makes it so effective. The chauffer scenes in the book are not nearly as scary as those in the movie. You cannot describe that actor's face and the way the scenes in the movie were shot and really convey how scary it is. You just have to see it. Obviously I'm not the only one who feels this way. I was not aware of the "Rosie thing" until I read these internet postings. I saw thw movie in Suffolk County, Long Island, NY, where Rosie grew up (also where the action in the book and movie take place), so we may have seen it at the same theatre. I can't remember the theatre or even the town, just that it was on Sunrise Highway near Patchogue (I've been away from NY almost 20 years). I think it's really cool that the internet could bring together so many people who share such a vivid memory of a scene in a movie which was neither gory nor profane...just plain scary. And why that douchebag Leonard Maltin didn't get scared too is beyond me. He sucks.
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Summary: TERRIBLE DREAMS ABOUT THE CHAUFFEUR FOR AGES
Review: I was 8 years old the last time I watched this movie, now I am 23 and I still have terrifying visions of the Chauffeur. I thought I was the only one, but to my surprise, many others feel the same. I had forgotten the title of this movie and have been looking for years in stores under horror. I decided recently to look it up on the web. I knew it was from the 70's, but I wasn't sure of the exact year. I am so excited that I found this movie, and not only will I order it for keepsakes, but I am going to call around to local video stores and see if anyone has it so I can scare myself silly tonight!
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Summary: TERRIBLE DREAMS ABOUT THE CHAFFER FOR AGES
Review: I was 8 years old the last time I watched this movie, now I am 23 and I still have terrifying visions of the Chaffer. I thought I was the only one, but to my surprise, many others feel the same. I had forgotten the title of this movie and have been looking for years in stores under horror. I decided recently to look it up on the web. I knew it was from the 70's, but I wasn't sure of the exact year. I am so excited that I found this movie, and not only will I order it for keepsakes, but I am going to call around to local video stores and see if anyone has it so I can scare myself silly tonight!
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Summary: As boring as a Haunted House can be
Review: God, what is wrong with me? Everyone thinks this movie is scary and the chauffeur is a terrific appearence. I think this movie is boring as hell and the chauffeur is rather Silly, not to mention that he was the only character in this whole mess that I half-liked! Really,Oliver Reed is at his most unsympathic and I would dislike this movie even more if he would have made it out alive! Talk about the ending ( that, like in "the Legend of Bore-House" is completely nonsense ), if you have to rip-off "Psycho", rip it off in a way it would make sense! But the movie's biggest problem, despite the absolutely pointless plot ( A family inherits a house for their summer vacation and there is an old woman in that one room, they oblige to take care of, but nobody exept for the wife seems to see her and in the end the wife has become the old woman... it's more boring than it sounds ) is it's running time : Nothing at all ever happens and the things that happen could have happened in 15 minutes! Really, who is interested in that one scene where Karen Black refuses to have Sex??? This movie goes about as fast as St. Vitus but at least St. Vitus aren't lame. This movie is lame, it perfectly redefines this word. Sometimes, lame movies are lame beacuse they try to explain the things that are going on. After the closing credits, I still had no Idea what it was about. Yes, there are many opened questions but not in a good way: It looks like the directors had no Idea what they were doing too. And, back to the chauffeur, he is the movie's only highlight. A completely silly and pointless one, but it's the only thing that keeps this movie from being as terrible as "The Legend of Hell-House".
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