The story highlights an investigation which unleashes the evil in the basement of the world's most haunted house. A magazine writer's investigation into a s''ance turns to horror when an abandoned well beneath the basement floor turns out to be the gateway to Hell.
John Baxter (Tony Roberts), an investigator of psychic frauds for Reveal magazine, unmasks a fake medium racket operating in the Amityville house. Baxter then discovers the property is going cheap due to the house's reputation and buys it, sceptical of its history. But once moved in, he is hard pressed to find explanations for a series of supernatural events. Before long the evil in the basement awakens to claim even more innocent victims. Is the Amityville house really the gateway to hell?
What it lacks in grandeur, this 1978 TV version of The Four Feathers makes up for in fidelity to AEW Mason's classic novel. By cannibalising the superior 1939 production for epic shots and sequences, this modest adaptation draws attention to its meagre production values, relying heavily on casting and chemistry to compensate. That it succeeds, more or less, in capturing the essence of Mason's grand adventure is largely due to the appeal of Beau Bridges and Jane Seymour in the prime of their early careers. (Bridges' film career was gaining momentum; Seymour would rise from here to the similarly romantic Somewhere in Time.) Bridges is the shamed soldier Harry Faversham, transcending cowardice by rescuing his closest friends during Britain's bloody campaign in 1870s Sudan; Seymour is his beloved back home, torn between Harry and the seemingly braver Jack (Robert Powell). TV veteran Don Sharp provides tepid direction, while screenwriter Gerald DiPego would continue his prolific career for decades to come. --Jeff Shannon
The C.I.A. inherit footage of the slaughter of a Hollywood movie crew while on location. One crew member the teenage daughter of the slain director escapes the carnage to tell the blood-thirsty tale of staying alive and a counter-revolutionary army's ruthless objectives that must be stopped!
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