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Title: Movie actually PROVES the story is a hoax
Review: This is one of those amazing films where NOTHING seems to happen. Scene after scene of James Brolin acting rude and obnoxious, then some doors gets locked, cut to Steiger (a horrible performance) jawing about having the flu, then repeat. Eventually, the family leaves the house...that's it. Boring and relentlessly tepid and unfrightening. It's become common knowledge that the story is untrue, and this movie actually proves it by showing nothing that couldn't be produced by the Lutz's overactive imaginations, their broken heating systems (that's the truth, folks!), and George's need to get some cash. Three years later, this was practically remade as POLTERGEIST, a haunted house flick that deserves your hard-earned money a lot more than this poverty-row snore. Oh by the way, "Jodie" was actually the neighbor's cat, Evinrude, who liked to climb up trees and look in the windows of adjacent houses.
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