
Carrie(1976)
Withdrawn and sensitive teenager Carrie White faces bullying from classmates and abuse from her fanatically pious mother. When she begins to suspect that she has supernatural powers, things take a dark and violent turn.


“Up the ancient stairs, behind the locked door, something lives, something evil, from which no one has ever returned.”
A couple and their twelve-year-old son move into a giant house for the summer where things aren’t quite what they seem. Every time someone gets hurt on the grounds, the beat-up house seems to repair itself…

Karen Black
Marian Rolf

Oliver Reed
Ben Rolf

Burgess Meredith
Arnold Allardyce

Bette Davis
Aunt Elizabeth

Eileen Heckart
Roz Allardyce

Lee Montgomery
David 'Davey' Rolf

Dub Taylor
Walker
Joseph Riley
Ben's Father
Todd Turquand
Young Ben
Orin Cannon
Minister
Burnt Offerings is a horror, thriller, mystery film released in 1976 exploring themes of child abuse, husband wife relationship, based on novel or book, window, cemetery, coffin. Directed by Dan Curtis, it stars Karen Black, Oliver Reed, Burgess Meredith. A couple and their twelve-year-old son move into a giant house for the summer where things aren’t quite what they seem. Every time someone gets hurt on the grounds, the beat-up house seems to repair itself…
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